15+ hour, 25+ min ago   (362+ words) We asked Toronto creators to write a love letter to their city in the language of their craft. There’s no single way to understand Toronto. If you ask any one of the city’s creators—the artists and musicians and filmmakers…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (234+ words) States can’t afford these cuts. The United States is in the throes of the largest tax revolt in a generation, and the revolutionaries are winning. Yet what is being framed as a populist fight for affordability is in reality a…...

2+ day, 8+ min ago   (176+ words) More and more people have spotted them this season, but no one knows exactly why—or what to do. Read: The blockbuster that captured a growing American rift Read: Inside the dangerous, secretive world of extreme fishing When I asked…...

2+ day, 16+ 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...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (716+ words) Washington, D.C., is full of cords of connection. By removing a Joel Shapiro work, the Kennedy Center severed one. Workers dismantled Blue last Wednesday. No specific reason was given, save that the change had occurred at the center’s request. Internal documents…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (107+ words) The Atlantic After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to announce his retirement from the institution at the end of this year,…...

6+ day, 2+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (406+ words) David Huerta was arrested while protesting ICE raids in LA. Yet here he was. “The president of the union just got fucking arrested,” he said. “If they can do this to me, imagine what they’re doing to other people.” Read:…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (150+ words) Why we need wonder Ian Bogost: People are thinking about looksmaxxing all wrong The Wonder Reader: A weekly guide to Atlantic stories that will fascinate and delight Atlantic Reads: The Small Stuff with Ian Bogost Wonder may not improve your…...