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Brandon Celi How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?
A journey through Ron DeSantis’s magic kingdom
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Photograph by Dion Bierdrager for The Atlantic The Real Reason South Koreans Aren’t Having Babies
Gender, rather than race or age or immigration status, has become the country’s sharpest social fault line.
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Vermeer’s Daughter
A speculative theory holds that Maria Vermeer was not only a model for her father but also an artist who created several of the paintings attributed to him. Could it be true?
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Photo-illustration by Oliver Munday. Source: TeamDAF / Getty. The Age of American Naval Dominance Is Over
The United States has ceded the oceans to its enemies. We can no longer take freedom of the seas for granted.
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Ryan Pfluger for The Atlantic Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act
What happens when the Terminator turns 75
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Adam Riding for The Atlantic A Troubling Sign for 2024
The midterms were a welcome reprieve for democracy. But the story of Bill Gates, an Arizona election official, suggests that we might not be so lucky in next year’s presidential election.
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Illustration by Paul Spella* The New Anarchy
America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.
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Jim Naughten The Aftermath of a Mass Slaughter at the Zoo
Last year, a fox broke into a bird enclosure in D.C. and killed 25 flamingos. The zoo refused to let him strike again.
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Illustration by Doug Chayka; source: Getty New York’s Rats Have Already Won
I thought having a rat czar would be an easy win for the city. I was wrong.
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Erika Larsen for The Atlantic Judy Blume Goes All the Way
A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.
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Robert Capa / ICP / Magnum The Children of the Nazis’ Genetic Project
Across Europe, some adoptees have had to face a dark realization about their origins.
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Gianni Cipriano Can Giorgia Meloni Govern Italy?
A founding European Union member adjusts to its new leader, whose rise breaks a postwar taboo.
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Society Tells Me to Celebrate My Disability. What If I Don’t Want To?
On living with cerebral palsy
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Brian Finke for The Atlantic The Real Obstacle to Nuclear Power
It’s not environmentalists—it’s the nuclear-power industry itself.
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Ben Hickey The French Are in a Panic Over le Wokisme
The nation’s vehement rejection of identity politics made me recalibrate my own views about woke ideology.
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Concept by Seb Agresti; Illustration by The Atlantic The Man Who Moves Markets
Carson Block uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now he’s under investigation himself. Is he the hero of Wall Street, or the villain?
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Shira Inbar We’ve Lost the Plot
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
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Matt Huynh It’s High Noon in America
In our popular culture and in our politics, we’re returning to the Old West.
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Derek Brahney Why the Age of American Progress Ended
Invention alone can’t change the world; what matters is what happens next.
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Illustration by Eric Yahnker. Source: House Creative Services. Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?
On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman’s alternate universe
