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A striking new study reveals that elected officials have a far more pessimistic view of voter behavior than do citizens themselves.

How The Atlantic’s editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen

For anyone who’s in the president’s crosshairs—or who could be—it’s the dominant emotion of Trump’s second term.

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

In Emily St. James’s new novel, three trans women figure out what life to live—and what to sacrifice for it.

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?