1+ hour, 23+ min 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…...

13+ hour, 32+ 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…...

2+ day, 13+ 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, 18+ hour ago   (573+ words) What does prosperity mean to you? Earlier this year, the financial services firm Northwestern Mutual asked people in the United States that question. Household income and finances ranked highest, edging out relationships with loved ones, emotional health, and physical health....

2+ day, 21+ 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…...

4+ day, 21+ 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…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (278+ words) An interesting shift happens when a kid is learning to drive, and you’re both inside a box with your fear, moving 40 miles an hour. A strange thing happened to me in a deserted parking lot on a recent Sunday morning:…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (366+ words) Authoritarian extremists are speaking for American socialists, and a lot of people don’t like what they say. American socialists are convinced that they have a media-training problem. In the past year, members of the Democratic Socialists of America, the country’s…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (119+ words) A case for finding wonder in familiar things A strange thing happens when you see something every day: Eventually, you stop seeing it. A building you once admired becomes part of your commute. The trees on your block become background....

1+ week, 1+ 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…...