The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

The once-bustling corridors of the State Department are tomblike as ambassadors scrape for information. First published in The Atlantic on February 24, 2026.

All times are interesting times, but the summer of 2016 was especially interesting. That July, as a Twitter user named Katie Loewy tried to make sense of mass shootings and Brexit and the rising ...

Those of us who watch the Olympics as bystanders tend to smugly judge athletes for succumbing to pressure without understanding what we even mean by the term. The first thing to know about pressure is ...

Others were presented as ornaments meant to illustrate Trump’s successes: Enrique Marquez, a Venezuelan political prisoner freed after U.S. forces deposed the strongman Nicolas Maduro, was given a ...

Having started Teach for America, back in 1989, and then Teach for All—a network of similar organizations across more than 60 countries—I’ve spent almost four decades trying to inspire young people ...

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Sunbeams through the windows illuminate floating dust motes—and, imperceptibly, microdroplets of mucus carrying the measles virus, expelled from an infected but asymptomatic child who is hopping and ...

Der Streaming-Riese Netflix zieht sich aus dem Bieterwettstreit um Warner Bros. Discovery zurück. Mit möglicherweise fatalen ...

Islamabad wirft den regierenden Taliban in Afghanistan vor, Terroristen zu beherbergen, die in Pakistan Anschläge verüben.

Am frühen Morgen haben die Warnstreiks im Nahverkehr begonnen. Unzählige Busse und Bahnen stehen heute und morgen still.

Am Abendhimmel sind mit Geduld, Glück und Teleskop ausnahmsweise sechs Planeten und der Mond zu sehen. Gute Chancen hat man ...