~best-of-the-atlanti | Bookmarks (1128)
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How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s...
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What Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Said
The rapper insists he’s a musician, not a messiah—a message reinforced by his Super Bowl performance.
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A Super Bowl Spectacle Over the Gulf
The president plans to highlight his proposed name change mid-route on Air Force One.
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What Is Hims Actually Selling?
The lifestyle-med company built a business on male anxieties. Now it’s betting on a new message:...
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Superb Owl Sunday IX
A special Sunday event: a photographic essay celebrating such magnificent birds of prey. These nocturnal hunters...
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‘A Very Christian Concept’
The faith’s mandate is more arduous than J. D. Vance’s account seems to allow.
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Why Tom Brady Could Be Worth $375 Million in the Booth
Applying any normal ROI analysis to Brady’s broadcaster contract is difficult for at least four reasons.
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Picking the Perfect Episode of TV
Readers share their selections from The Last of Us, West Wing, Community, and more.
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Trump’s Conquest of the Kennedy Center Is Accelerating
The president has begun purging the board of Washington’s premier arts organization.
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What an ‘America First’ Diet Would Really Look Like
The notion that the U.S. could produce all of its food domestically is nice, but very...
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The Thrill of the Quest
A roundup of essays in which Atlantic writers travel near and far to find what’s missing
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How to Rebuild From the Ashes
Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park was destroyed by a fire in 2017—but mostly recovered. It could be...
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Another Edgelord Comes to Power
Paul Ingrassia, an online reactionary, is in place at the Justice Department.
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How the Tariff Whiplash Could Haunt Pricing
The great North American trade war is over—for now—but uncertainty can do its own damage.
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What the Democrats’ Musk Whisperer Thinks Now
“We need to make sure that Elon Musk has an allegiance to the Constitution,” Representative Ro...
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Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center
The president intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive...
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The Department of Paranoia
The effort to kill USAID has enshrined Elon Musk’s delusional conspiracy theories into official White House...
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A New, Unbearably Honest Kind of Writing
Two authors’ memoirs attempt to communicate intensely isolating experiences to readers.
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Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage
The private companies in control of social-media networks possess an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control...
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The Beating Heart of 'Twin Peaks'
David Lynch’s work was often described as “mysterious” or “surreal”—but the emotions it provoked were just...
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10 Indie Films You Should Watch for in 2025
Conan O’Brien’s dramatic debut and a look back at To Catch a Predator rank among the...