Folk Culture

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

The sweeping attacks from Republican elected officials against former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts last week send...

In an April phone conversation, Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued a stern admonition to President Joe Biden. Washington’s ban on...

At the start of Elizabeth Hobson’s career as an ecologist, she knew to stick to one rule: Never anthropomorphize the...

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In 1984, George Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. In the short story “The Minority Report,” the science-fiction author Philip K....

Later this summer, the Supreme Court will rule on City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, one of the most important...

Driving into New York City is a special kind of skill, requiring patience, cutthroat merging, and, sometimes, a willingness to...

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OpenAI appears to be in the midst of a months-long revolt from within. The latest flash point came yesterday, when...