Folk Culture

Professional comedy, which most of us consume in modest doses, is not how humor infuses our day-to-day lives. Nor are...

Any assessment of the Middle East’s future must contend with an unpleasant fact: Iran remains committed to objectives that threaten...

In 2011, I sat at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and watched Rupert Murdoch announce the beginning of a...

If there was a moment—a single shot, in fact—when the chemical composition of men’s tennis changed, it came on September...

When Donald Trump insinuated this week that his successor and the FBI were out to kill him, he showed how...

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

Even as a little girl, Furiosa understood the value of staying hidden in the wasteland of postapocalyptic Earth, where resources...

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social today that he can free the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich from his...

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

Franklin Graham, one of America’s most well-known evangelicals, recently did what he has never done before: He offered a critical...