The AtlanticDonald Trump Trump’s Middle East Policy Is a FraudThe Atlantic - Conor FriedersdorfUntil days ago, a small number of United States troops were stationed in northeastern Syria alongside Kurdish forces who helped defeat ISIS and guard its jailed fighters. Now the troops are gone on President
The AtlanticSports The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More ExpensiveThe Atlantic - Derek ThompsonAs WeWork crashes and Uber bleeds cash, the consumer-tech gold rush may be coming to an end. Several weeks ago, I met up with a friend in New York who suggested we grab a bite at a Scottish bar in the
The AtlanticBooks Why Readers Resented Harold BloomThe Atlantic - Graeme WoodWhen I saw the literary critic Harold Bloom last Wednesday, on the morning of Yom Kippur, something was different: For the first time, he did not mention death. His moods have long tended to the morbid.
The AtlanticTrump University Trump Betrayed the Kurds. He Couldn’t Help Himself.The Atlantic - Peter WehnerHumiliating his own Cabinet secretaries was bad. Putting faithful American allies in harm’s way is far worse. President Donald Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds stung deeply. “They trusted us and we broke
The AtlanticKurdistan ISIS Is GloatingThe Atlantic - Graeme WoodThe best one could say about America’s abandonment of the Kurds is that they should have known we would sell them out eventually. Yesterday saw multiple reports of jailbreaks from Kurdish-operated prisons
The AtlanticPolitics After Poland, No Democracy Is SafeThe Atlantic - Yascha MounkIn the age of populism, certainty about the political future is a dangerous illusion. Democracy was on the ballot yesterday in Poland. It suffered a stinging defeat that will have consequences far beyond
The AtlanticTrump Administration Trump’s Defiance Is Destroying Congress’s PowerThe Atlantic - Keith E. WhittingtonCongress and the White House have a tense relationship, and future administrations might well choose to build on rather than repudiate the Trump example of how to respond to a hostile Congress. More than
The AtlanticHBCUs The NCAA Will Never Fix ItselfThe Atlantic - Jemele HillThe presidential candidate Cory Booker, a former Stanford athlete, thinks big-name college sports have gone awry—and he wants Congress to step in. If anyone can understand what’s wrong with college sports—and
The AtlanticForestry Start Planting TreesThe Atlantic - James FallowsRecently Deb Fallows kicked off a series of “Big Little Ideas”—innovations or reforms that could be applied fairly easily at the local level and that might have cumulatively very important effect. (Thanks
The AtlanticDavid Pocock The Best Athlete Americans Have Never Heard OfThe Atlantic - Andrew ExumAmerican pro athletes face pressure to stick to sports. Australia’s David Pocock has a different idea. If Australia exits the Rugby World Cup this coming week in Japan, Americans will lose their last to
The AtlanticArt Trump’s Court ArtistThe Atlantic - Jennifer A. GreenhillJon McNaughton once painted landscapes and religious scenes. Now he’s focused on reverently depicting the Trump era for future generations. Even if you haven’t heard of the artist Jon McNaughton, you’ve
The AtlanticChina The NBA-China Disaster Is a Stress Test for CapitalismThe Atlantic - Derek ThompsonThe business of American business is business. Are we okay with that? On August 19, the definition of a company in America changed. The Business Roundtable, a U.S. lobbying group that represents nearly
The AtlanticPolitics Democrats Are Going to Regret Beto’s Stance on Conservative ChurchesThe Atlantic - John InazuThe candidate seems not to realize that eliminating tax exemptions for certain religious institutions would be catastrophic. The issue of gay rights and recognition and acceptance of the LGBTQ community
The AtlanticClimate Alone in the Dark in the Bay AreaThe Atlantic - Annie LowreyPeople were on their own as their homes and businesses lost power. Earlier this week, Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents to mitigate the risk of fires. The
The AtlanticThe White House The Conspiracy of Silence Is CrackingThe Atlantic - David A. GrahamTrump’s stonewalling relies on the willingness of others to stay quiet, and Marie Yovanovitch and Gordon Sondland are opting out. What if the White House threw an obstruction party and no one came? Or
The AtlanticDonald Trump The Impeachable TweetsThe Atlantic - Tom NicholsTrump’s admissions on social media alone provide enough material for Congress to remove him. Forget creating more committees. Forget trying to get at the secret server in the White House. Forget issuing
The AtlanticDonald Trump The Story Keeps Getting Worse for the White HouseThe Atlantic - David A. GrahamA pair of men helping the president’s supposed anti-corruption campaign were apprehended as they tried to leave the United States. If the president’s fundamental defense against impeachment is that there’s
The AtlanticPolitics The Question Trump Republicans Must Ask ThemselvesThe Atlantic - Conor FriedersdorfIf they think Trump betrayed the Kurds, why do they still support him? Is it possible to believe that President Donald Trump is abandoning a vital ally to slaughter, that he is ensuring the rebirth of
The AtlanticAddiction Americans Legalize Pot—And Then Panic Over Tech AddictionThe Atlantic - Nir EyalBy promoting the idea that technology is hijacking our brains and getting all of us addicted to our devices, techno-fearmongers elevate the exception rather than the rule. This past summer, Josh Hawley,
The AtlanticEducation The Contradiction at the Heart of Public EducationThe Atlantic - Andy SmarickGifted education puts in tension two equally treasured American ideals: egalitarianism and individualism. Over the summer, an education panel convened by Bill de Blasio put New York City’s mayor in a It
The AtlanticHome Depot Why You Never See Your Friends AnymoreThe Atlantic - Judith ShulevitzOur unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society. Just under a century ago, the Soviet Union embarked on one of the strangest attempts to reshape the common calendar
The AtlanticPoland Democracy in Poland Is in Mortal DangerThe Atlantic - Yascha MounkThe country’s upcoming elections are crucial. And the United States is on the wrong side of the fight. A few minutes’ walk from the center of Gdańsk, with its redbrick churches and cobblestone alleyways,
The AtlanticThe White House Trump’s Obstruction LetterThe Atlantic - David A. GrahamA letter from the president’s lawyer argues that the House probe is illegitimate, but its claims are more political than legal. Over the past few days, Democrats have been warning with more and more urgency
The AtlanticGermany A Synagogue Attack on the Holiest Day of the YearThe Atlantic - Yascha MounkWhatever the motives behind the shooting in Germany, two lessons are already apparent. This morning, the small Jewish community in the city of Halle, in eastern Germany, assembled for the holiest day the
The AtlanticDonald Trump So What If the Whistle-Blower Has a Political Motive?The Atlantic - Adam SerwerIn August, an intelligence analyst filed a whistle-blower complaint alleging that President Donald Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to open an investigation into Hunter Biden, the
The AtlanticTurkey The Trump Administration Doesn’t Care About AlliesThe Atlantic - Kori SchakeAfter the agreement with Turkey, we should expect countries that are most reliant on U.S. security guarantees to search for alternatives. Here are the terms of the deal: Turkey takes responsibility for
The AtlanticNBA The NBA Is Going to Have to ChooseThe Atlantic - Jemele HillPro basketball was a progressive beacon, allowing players and coaches to speak their mind freely. And then China got involved. The NBA reveled in the praise it got for being the pro sports league that
The AtlanticCitizenship The Fragility of American CitizenshipThe Atlantic - Amanda FrostSome people are learning that their birth or naturalization certificates aren’t enough to prove citizenship—a problem that the Fourteenth Amendment should ideally prevent. Establishing U.S. citizenship
The AtlanticThe Handmaid's Tale Trump’s America Is Not The Handmaid’s TaleThe Atlantic - Cathy YoungMargaret Atwood’s world isn’t coming true. Pretending that it is only obscures who Trump’s real victims are. Woven through The Testaments—the new novel by the eminent Canadian author Margaret Atwood and
