Day: September 16, 2024

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...

The post was sandwiched between a screed about capital-gains taxes and a video clip from a Donald Trump rally. Four...

Wood, I don’t think I need to work too hard to convince you, is a fairly amazing substance. It grows...

On September 4, two students and two teachers were killed in a school shooting in Georgia. Nine others were wounded....

When Jean Smart stepped onto the Emmys stage last night to accept the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a...

Springfield, Ohio, is just the sort of beleaguered heartland manufacturing town that Donald Trump and J. D. Vance say the...

In December 1761, King George III dispatched an order to the American colonies. In a recent defiance of convention, some...

In 1990, when I was 10, I wore a Casio watch that didn’t quite fit. The black band had no...

THE NEIGHBORHOODThis story starts with, of all things, a dog walk. My partner, Lauren, and I were doing our usual...

Stop by an elementary school mid-morning, and you’re likely to find a site of relative calm: students in their classroom...