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AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System
5+ hour, 59+ min ago (268+ words) The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle—and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down. Politicians have no shortage of ideas about how to rein in AI: a 100 percent federal tax rate on data-center incentives, a…...
Remembering 9/11, 25 Years Later
11+ hour, 36+ min ago (18+ words) The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine....
Teenagers Are Pushing Himmler’s Favorite Myth
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (492+ words) If you are older than 25, you probably haven’t heard of “Agartha.” When I asked whether this was an Agartha reference, the White House press office responded by email that “4 people had to Google what Agartha is and we’re still not…...
What the Floods Say About Xi Jinping
1+ week, 1+ day ago (117+ words) Last week, after floodwaters caused by a collapsing glacier tore through the Himalayas between Nepal and China, leaving more than 1,100 people dead and thousands more missing, the party’s current... China’s leader behaves more like an emperor than a man of…...
Postscript to American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (34+ words) This article was adapted from the afterword to the 2003 paperback edition of William Langewiesche’s 2002 book, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center. Langewiesche, who died in 2025,... A note from the author...
Trump Loses the Other Strait
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (392+ words) The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia. Yesterday morning, those delusions drifted away like smoke as Houthi forces broke through their enemies’ defenses and seized the towns and islands around the Bab…...
What Colin Powell Did on 9/11
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (128+ words) His insistence during an overseas trip on championing democracy in foreign policy is now a relic. Secretary of State Colin Powell was having breakfast with Peru’s president in Lima’s historic center on September 11, 2001, when an aide passed him a note…...
Trump’s Dream World in Dallas
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (195+ words) At a midterm convention, Trump tries to defy the odds one last time. “I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot,” he said. “I’m on the ballot. I’m on the ballot. Just one more time.” Read: Trump plans…...
What Russia Is Really Up To in Europe
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (371+ words) Moscow doesn’t want a conventional war but is busy fighting a hybrid one. U.S. intelligence assessments conclude that a conventional Russian attack on a NATO country is likely to happen sometime from this fall to 2029. But another possibility is that…...
Lonnie Bunch???s Sacrifice
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (130+ words) He was ready for life after the Smithsonian. Protecting the institution had taken a toll. Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, was already slipping into the past tense when we walked together through the National Museum of American…...