The Atlantic Ideas

Traditionally, candidates try to distance themselves from unpopular presidents. But this year, that’s impossible.

For generations, the newspaper has served American military families. That work must continue. And it must remain editorially independent.

What September 11 took from me

Most of Europe bans commercial surrogacy. The United Nations likens it to slavery. But in the United States, business is booming.

Raising independent kids shouldn’t be this hard.

Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser.

What I learned from 400 focus groups

Leo Aschenbrenner claimed to know the future of AI.

The Taiwanese don’t trust Trump, and they don’t believe America will come to their defense. A deal with China is starting to look inevitable.

Hoping to break a 94-year losing streak, Kansas Democrats have turned to Adam Hamilton, a Methodist pastor whose mood may not match his party’s.

As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans.

The country is taking once-unthinkable steps to ensure its own defense.

Universities that hide from the technology will merely secure their irrelevance.

The vice president’s relationship with a conspiracy theorist is, at bottom, a political partnership, not a personal friendship.

Everyone has a theory. But what if this case means nothing at all?

A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.

What the Live Nation case says about the fate of monopolies now

The conservative justices have separation of powers exactly backwards.

The Venezuela operation is the purest distillation of his amoral foreign policy.

Zohran Mamdani has wasted an opportunity to address the city’s real long-term fiscal problems.