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…...

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...

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…...

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…...

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…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (568+ words) Right-wing activists have slowly taken control of a significant part of America’s local election apparatus. The country isn’t prepared for what they might do. In the anxious days following President Trump’s 2020 election loss—before his supporters stormed the Capitol, before…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (75+ words) The Atlantic The president’s latest version doesn’t square with the facts. Where were you on 9/11? Every American old enough to remember the day has an answer to that question. President Trump has several. Trump’s view may have been clear, but…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (234+ words) The Smithsonian secretary protected an American institution from more than Donald Trump. Bunch, 73, would likely have chosen to retire earlier if not for his sense of duty—his conviction (which few dispute) that he was the best person to guide…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (193+ words) The U.S. and Iran are engaged in a conflict that is massive in scale but personal in nature. Assassination was clearly on Trump’s mind when the elder Khamenei was killed. “I got him before he got me,” Trump told ABC News’s…...