El Niño creates record-low Atlantic hurricane season An El Niño pattern occurs every two to seven years.
The Atlantic is quiet — record quiet — this hurricane season thanks to an enormous El Niño that crushes storms before they get going.
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AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System
The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle—and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down.
Where have all the Atlantic hurricanes gone? El Nino might bring record slow storm season
The Atlantic is quiet — record quiet — this hurricane season thanks to an enormous El Nino that crushes storms before they get going.
Where have all the Atlantic hurricanes gone? El Niño's might brings record slow storm season
The Atlantic hurricane season is unusually quiet this year due to a strong El Niño, which disrupts storm formation over that ocean.
The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.September 11, 2026, 1:12 PM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0012:09Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describi...
The Los Angeles Rams Are Trying to Defeat Time
Illustration by The AtlanticSeptember 10, 2026, 3:27 PM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:008:02Usually, when the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams play, it’s a relatively short commute. But this...
Atlantic hurricane season poised to break historical record
The Atlantic Basin is poised to break the historical record for the latest hurricane formation on record as intense El Niño conditions suppress tropical development.
Atlantic hurricane season could break record as tropics stay quiet
The Atlantic is on track to break a hurricane-season record as unusually quiet tropical activity continues.
DSA’s Problem Isn’t ‘Media Training’
Authoritarian extremists are speaking for American socialists, and a lot of people don’t like what they say.
This Tiny E-Reader Is the Single Best Piece of Technology in Years
Illustration by Jonelle Afurong / The Atlantic. Source: Getty.September 6, 2026, 8 AM ET ShareSave No matter how you read it, The Power Broker is a serious undertaking. The paperback weighs as much as a bric...
OpenAI Wants to Talk About The Federalist Papers
The AI giant is worried about what all-powerful bots could mean for our constitutional rights.
There’s No Such Thing as an AI ‘Lab’
The term lends an air of scientific rigor to what are really billion-dollar corporations.
The Dead-Internet Theory Is Back
Illustration by The AtlanticSeptember 4, 2026, 6:48 AM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:008:54Five years ago, people who hang out in the stranger corners of the web started arguing that the internet was most...
Atlantic hurricane season remains quiet, Pacific sees surge in activity
The Atlantic Basin remains unusually quiet as the peak of the 2026 hurricane season approaches, while tropical activity has surged in the Eastern and Central Pacific.
PBS Blames Jim Crow for Lack of 'Universal, Simple Benefit Systems'
The Atlantic staff writer Annie Lowrey joined PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Tuesday to allege that the reason why the United States does not have “universal, simple benefit systems” like universal basi...
The Truth About American Food Safety
Guillermo Arias / AFP / GettySeptember 2, 2026, 10:27 AM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:008:44The phrase When it rains, it pours isn’t one you like to see applied to outbreaks of foodborne illness, yet h...
Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media Feed
A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The AtlanticSeptember 1, 2026, 8:16 PM ET ShareSave One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo...
The Backlash Against Polyester Has Gone Too Far
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Kwangmoozaa / Getty.September 1, 2026, 5 PM ET ShareSave Lately, the men of the internet who are obsessed with self-optimization have found a new fixation: their underwe...
The Measles-Stricken Mother Who Lost Her Newborn Son
The family at the center of Pennsylvania’s measles controversy tells their story.
The Golden Girls, but in a Camp Cabin
All photos by Nancy WaleckiAugust 30, 2026, 7 AM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0014:11At Camp Social, where grown women return to girlhood, friendship has no preamble.
Which Dan Sullivan Will These Dan Sullivans Vote For?
The Alaska Senate race has become complicated by two candidates with the same name.
The AI Backlash Gets Professional
A new group is targeting tech companies and the government with the climate movement’s playbook.
Pennsylvania’s Public-Health Officials May Be Wrong About a Measles Death
Matthew Hatcher / GettyAugust 27, 2026, 7:47 PM ET ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:008:22Measles outbreaks around the country are already a disaster, but more bad news arrived on Tuesday. Pennsylvania Governor...