First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

The negotiations offer an occasion to stop to consider how China went from technological backwater to superpower in less than ...

I n the 29 days that the government has been closed, President Donald Trump has not traveled to Capitol Hill to jump-start ...

Republican leaders need to speak up now, loudly and clearly, against any schemes to put Donald Trump back into the White House yet again.

One minor but arresting fact of U.S. history is the huge amount of alcohol the average American consumed in 1830: 7.1 undiluted gallons a year, the equivalent of four shots of 80-proof whiskey every ...

First published in The Atlantic on November 4, 2025.

When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because ...

Der US-Senat hat erste Schritte zur Beendigung des längsten Shutdowns in der Geschichte unternommen. In Brasilien beginnt die ...

Sind junge Menschen nicht widerstandsfähig genug? Katarina Witt schaltet sich in die Generationendebatte ein: Ältere wie sie ...

Erst werden 27 Häftlinge tot gefunden, die durch Erhängen ums Leben gekommen sein sollen. Dann sterben vier weitere Insassen ...

Im verbitterten Haushaltsstreit haben mehrere Demokraten und die republikanische Mehrheit im Senat dafür gestimmt, über einen ...