The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci
Alex Wong / GettyJuly 28, 2026, 8 AM ET ShareSave When Anthony Fauci arrives on Capitol Hill tomorrow to testify before Congress, he will be trailed by a security detail he’s paying for himself. Fauci has...
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The Atlantic Files Motion to Dismiss Kash Patel’s $250 Million Defamation Lawsuit
The Atlantic on Monday escalated its legal fight with FBI Director Kash Patel, asking a federal judge to throw out his $250 million defamation lawsuit.
The Problem With Shutting Down ICE in Blue States
The Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey.PoliticsThe Problem With Shutting Down ICE in Blue StatesTrump officials are happy to ship immigrants elsewhere.
Even Trump Can’t Spin This One
Saul Loeb / AFP / GettyJuly 25, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave If President Trump has one true skill, it is conjuring up alternate realities and getting his supporters to accept them. The examples are everywhere: d...
The ‘Hair-Dryer Incident’ Is Just the Start
A new, gonzo style of fraud could be an existential threat to prediction markets.
Does Your Credit Card Even Plunk?
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.July 21, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave Physical credit cards should be a thing of the past. Over the past few years, touchless services such as Apple Pay have driven a b...
Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Biggest Advantage
In the data-center age, the business of tech companies is more like oil-refining than coding.
Just Ask the Dinosaurs How Bad Air Quality Can Get
If an orange sky seems apocalyptic, imagine planet-wide fires against a black sky.
Trump Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Looking For
The president’s prime-time speech was more notable for what it didn’t prove than what it did.
The Truth About AI’s Water Use
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Kamphu / GettyJuly 16, 2026, 3:01 PM ET ShareSave Updated at 3:41 p.m. ET on July 16, 2026
The Lessons About Ebola the U.S. Wants to Forget
The world’s capacity to control the disease has improved in the past decade, but only because of dedicated investment and coordination.
Pete Hegseth Wants YOU to Test Your Testosterone
The secretary of defense has a questionable plan to monitor the hormone levels of every service member over 30.
Anthropic Accidentally Made the Perfect Commercial
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Claude and Anthropic / Youtube.July 15, 2026, 5:08 PM ET ShareSave In an impressive challenge to the idea that no publicity is bad publicity, Anthropic is now promoting...
Inside Trump’s Reversal on ICE
Attacks from immigration hard-liners had the president worried about looking weak.
ACC revamps tiebreakers for conference title game after 5-loss Duke team got in over Miami
The Atlantic Coast Conference is revamping the tiebreaker format for its football championship game following a controversial finish last season that allowed a five-loss Duke team to get in over
All the Cool Kids Are Birding
A younger crowd is flocking to a hobby once dominated by retirees—and transforming it along the way.
Neil Rudel on football: VT’s James Franklin should lose ‘chip on shoulder’
The Atlantic Coast Conference football media days are scheduled this week in Charlotte, and of particular interest locally will be Thursday’s appearance of James Franklin who, in case you have been living...
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
Color photograph of a three-level data center under construction in Vernon, California, near many warehouses and a lot filled with piles of rock and dirt. (Mario Tama / Getty)July 14, 2026, 12 PM ET ShareSa...
The Shooter in Maine Was a New ICE Recruit
The agency’s second killing in as many weeks prompted an abrupt policy change on vehicle stops.
The Atlantic Released A GenAI Lemony Snicket Game That Bans You If You Go Off-Script
The murder mystery will have its characters respond to players via an LLM, so this could get weird
The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious
Illustration by Alicia Tatone / Source: Getty.July 12, 2026, 7:30 AM ET ShareSave If Julius Caesar had debuted this year, William Shakespeare might have been accused of writing it with AI. A certain suspicio...
The Return of the Democratic Manly Man
Amy Lynn Powell for The AtlanticJuly 12, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave Brian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a...
The Three Personalities of America
People in different regions of the U.S. have measurably different psychological profiles.
Platner Just Made Things Harder for Democrats
Laura Brett / GettyJuly 8, 2026, 8:58 PM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0011:55The Nazi tattoo wasn’t bad enough to force Graham Platner to abandon his Senate bid, his defenders argued earlier this year....