The Unspeakable, Enabled
This year will decide whether gendered abuse in real life and online becomes the norm.
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Taby Cheng for The Atlantic The Sacrifice of the Danes
After September 11, Denmark fought alongside its ally. The families of fallen soldiers have a message for Trump.
UGC / AP Trump’s Fateful Choice in Iran
Taking military action is risky. Falsely encouraging freedom fighters would be shameful.
Tierney L. Cross / The New York Times / Redux The Question That the Lawyers Representing Trans Athletes Didn’t Answer
The oral arguments for Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. were meandering and unsatisfying.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic High January Was Bound to Happen
Cannabis companies have a cheeky proposition for anyone who’s taking the month off from alcohol.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The New Food-Stamp Rules Will Make Your Head Spin
States have started banning junk food from SNAP. It’s not going according to plan.
Christian Abraham / Connecticut Post / Getty Trump-Administration Officials Describe an Elementary-School Drop-Off
Once they’ve identified you as the enemy, every action looks sinister.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Jim Watson / AFP / Getty; Alex Wong / Getty. Jerome Powell’s Thankless Rescue of Trump
The Fed chair has saved Trump from his worst instincts but failed to do so for Biden.
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What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker
Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.
Gemälde von Max Slevogt / ullstein bild / Getty The Nocturnals
While most people are fast asleep, some ultra-introverts are going about their lives, reveling in the quiet and solitude. They challenge a core assumption of psychology: that all humans need social connection. (From 2022)
Max Mikulecky The President and the Press
“But the lesson of all this was not lost on Nixon: the newspapers had threatened his political career; television had saved it.” (From 1973)
Charles Tasnasi / AP Undersea
“To sense this world of waters known to the creatures of the sea we must shed our human perceptions of length and breadth and time and place, and enter vicariously into a universe of all-pervading water.” (From 1937)
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Octavio Jones / AFP / Getty radio atlantic•Episode 165Do ICE Officers Have ‘Immunity’?
States don’t often prosecute federal officers, but they can.
the david frum show•Episode 42Trump Has Redefined Presidential Scandal
The historian Timothy Naftali on Donald Trump’s presidential library, comparing the many scandals of the Trump presidency to those of Richard Nixon’s, and Trump’s foreign policy of American weakness. Plus: a head-spinning week of terrifying crises, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
The Atlantic galaxy brain•Episode 11The Problem Is So Much Bigger Than Grok
The internet was built to objectify women.
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There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. how to age up•Episode 6How to Age Up on a Warming Planet
Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.
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