The Atlantic Ideas

The field must swallow its pride and admit where the insurgent movement is right.

The president is happy to receive money and gifts, but don’t expect favors in return.

Regime collapse is unlikely, but a revised approach might still degrade the Iranian position.

White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.

Senators elected this November will be in office when America’s most popular federal program is on track to run out of money.

Too many institutions are teaching young people to stay quiet.

For years, I reported on one man’s incarceration for a crime he didn’t commit—and ignored the stories of a grieving family who thought they had gotten justice.

The president and the Pentagon are not being up front about what has happened in more than 20 weeks of hostilities.

A teardown of the upper chamber would be good for American democracy.

The Supreme Court is mostly giving the Trump administration what it wants—with interesting exceptions.

Tech companies need to generate huge revenues fast, or the economy could be in trouble.

The past few months have shown just how anachronistic and costly the Jones Act is.

The left-wing faction is hijacking the Democratic Party.

The writer and former white supremacist Richard Hanania was once the toast of MAGA-curious tech barons and reactionary intellectuals. Now he thinks Trumpism has broken their brains.

Why we love them, and why I build them

The future of warfare is drones, clearly.

Mortal threats to the republic are apparently a sideshow that distracts from cutting taxes, confirming judges, and deregulation.

Chinese shoes are cheap and high quality. Why are they so hard to buy in the U.S.?

Who can afford to sit still at the movies?

If you can’t beat the NIMBYs, pay ’em.