The Atlantic Out Loud

His fiction has found meaning in life’s gaps and love’s absence. By Adam Begley From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Super Bowl headliner doesn’t care if you understand his lyrics. By Spencer Kornhaber From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms By Alexandra Petri From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

America went to extraordinary lengths to throw off the rituals and titles of monarchy. Why would we fall for royal trappings today? By Jake Lundberg From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices...

What we learn by tracing rebellions from Africa to the Americas By Laurent Dubois From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions By Ross Andersen From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

January 6, five years later By Jamie Thompson From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A colloquial translation of Paradiso might make people actually read it. By Eric Bulson From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The movement claims to stand with the police. Trump’s decision to pardon the cop-beaters of January 6 exposed his movement for what it is. By Jeffrey Goldberg From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your...

Everything. By Graeme Wood From the ⁠⁠⁠February 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A fast-growing Filipino chain is serving burgers and chicken that seem like typical American fare—until you taste them. By Yasmin Tayag From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Not about Iraq. But the moral tenor of their political writings could be an antidote to Trumpism. By David Brooks From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A man claiming to be an Iranian intelligence officer promised me he would reveal his country’s secrets. Then he disappeared. By Shane Harris From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow By Gal Beckerman From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem. By Rose Horowitch From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again. By Isaac Stanley-Becker From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

And the Germans who didn’t By Hillary Kelly From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s about the flow of Time, not just keeping the beat. By James Parker From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How the politics of food brought together the crunchy left and the trad right By Sophie Gilbert From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The actor, playwright, and self-made cowboy was also a poet of masculine angst. By Michael O’Donnell From the ⁠⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science By Michael Scherer From the ⁠⁠January 2026 issue⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own. By Vann R. Newkirk II From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What the photographer found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happened to Ryan Borgwardt? By Jamie Thompson From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A short story By George Packer From the ⁠⁠December 2025 issue⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices