Folk Culture

Tim Walz tells a compelling story. The vice-presidential candidate grew up working on a family farm. He’s a former high-school...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful...

Imagine that you’re traveling for work this summer, somewhere far from home. The flight over is a little turbulent, but...

Last year, the journalist Aebra Coe published a bombshell story in Law360, a trade publication for people in the legal...

Last year the U.S. had about 81,000 overdose deaths involving opioids. The tally since 1999 is at least 645,000. Though...

At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, when its temperatures reached possibly the hottest of any Games’ to date, athletes roasted....

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the...

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When journalists write about ties between Donald Trump and the religious right, they usually focus on evangelical Protestants. That emphasis...

You would have forgiven Akio Kaminaga for losing his cool. Heading into the gold-medal match at the Tokyo Olympics in...