Folk Culture

What happens to a dream undone? For many Americans, the progress of gay rights over the past quarter century was...

Paul Cézanne always knew he wanted to be an artist. His father compelled him to enter law school, but after...

Silicon Valley appears, once again, to be getting the better of America’s newspapers and magazines. Tech companies are injecting every...

Last week, my British Airways flight from London to Tel Aviv made a stop not indicated on my ticket. While...

Amid the rise in populism, extremism, and polarization around the world, centrism is frequently dismissed by its critics as too...

The easiest explanation for why Representative Jamaal Bowman lost his Democratic primary in New York today is that he alienated...

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

The big new character in Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is Anxiety, which makes sense, given how much pressure was being...

Julian Assange is not a simple man, for all that people wish otherwise. The WikiLeaks founder is portrayed as a...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is showing all the signs of heading for an early election, probably next spring. The leaders of...