The Atlantic Out Loud

Climate reparations would hold the globe’s biggest polluters—including the United States—responsible for their actions. They might also be the best hope those nations have for saving themselves. By Vann R. Newkirk II. From the July/August 2024 issue. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysi...

How Black artists made modernism their own. By Susan Tallman. From the July/August 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

The collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets would be disastrous. A group of scientists has an idea to save them. By Ross Andersen. From the July/August 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at...

Conspiracism and hyper-partisanship in the nation’s fastest-growing city. By George Packer. From the July/August 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more...

Can a ’90s cult classic save the comic-book movie? By Shirley Li. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

How we rediscovered the tragedy in Mississippi that ushered us into the Great Migration. By Ko Bragg. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn m...

In living with cancer, Suleika Jaouad has learned to wrench meaning from our short time on Earth. By Jennifer Senior. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com...

America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise. By Daniel Engber. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating exploration...

Scientists are debating whether concepts such as memory, consciousness, and communication can be applied beyond the animal kingdom. By Zoë Schlanger. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. S...

The diagnosis is officially gone, but health anxiety is everywhere. By Meghan O'Rourke. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your...

He was the world’s most famous child star. Then he had to figure out what came next. By Chris Heath. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn mo...

Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. By Anne Applebaum. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating explorations o...

The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks. By Adrienne LaFrance. From the June 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. L...

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think. By Sarah Zhang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1942, aboard ship and heading for war, a young sailor—my uncle—wrote a letter home, describing and defining the principles he was fighting for. By David M. Shribman. From the May 2024 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 to fascinating exploration...

Republicans like Rob Portman could have ended Donald Trump’s political career. They chose not to. By Jeffrey Goldberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two. By Robert F. Worth. From the May 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at Th...

Or is he something else entirely? By James Parker. From the May 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

How Gulf princes, the safari industry, and conservation groups are displacing the Maasai from the last of their Serengeti homeland. By Stephanie McCrummen. From the May 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our worl...

Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas. By Gary Shteyngart. From the May 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. By Jonathan Haidt. 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories—and Ringo. By David Frum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Her new memoir doubles as a modern-day horror story. By Megan Garber. From the May 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Scientists want an evolutionary explanation for animal play. But maybe the answer is simply: It brings them joy. By Sallie Tisdale. From the April 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at...

A Columbia historian said he’d discovered a sacred text with clues to Jesus’s sexuality. Was it real? By Ariel Sabar. From the April 2024 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 to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.co...