In 2002, most ambitious Democrats supported a Middle Eastern war. In 2026, most oppose it.

Phil Berger has been the most powerful person in North Carolina for 15 years. That wasn’t enough to save him from voters’ anger at incumbents and legalized gambling.

Micro-cheating includes all sorts of internet behavior that, to many people, might just seem innocent.

A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually ...

Bill Maher has been chosen to receive the award before the Kennedy Center shuts down for a two-year renovation.

Shteyngart’s article is the latest in The Atlantic’s series “The Writer’s Way,” in which journalists and novelists follow the trails of beloved authors in the places that formed their work. Though ...

Naturally, the Senate is debating none of those things. Instead, Republicans in Congress’s upper chamber are spending this ...

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A recent killing of a neo-Nazi activist could bring France’s far-right party closer to power than it’s ever been.

Eighteenth-­century mental institutions employed a tactic called the bain de surprise, suddenly dunking their patients in ...

If you’ve been following the Iran war, you will have heard about the surpassing geopolitical significance of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway responsible for carrying a fifth of the world’s ...

It appears that you’re going to have to put up with the Blue Devils in all of their punchable smugness, with their fade haircuts and the skinny blue letters on their swelling chests, their ...