Folk Culture

I do not know how to put this gently or tastefully, so I will factually describe what happened last night...

It happened fast. Almost as soon as Hurricane Milton bore down on South Florida last month, high winds began shredding...

Why has this election season featured so many stories about animal cruelty? The 2024 campaign has contained many remarkable moments—the...

In their final pitches to voters, Donald Trump spent the week sowing doubt about election results, while Kamala Harris cast...

On December 14, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump crammed a handful of America’s most recognizable moguls into a conference room on...

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to...

The governing impulse of “heterodoxy” is a healthy skepticism of mass movements, overly broad claims meant to signal virtue, and...

To support The Atlantic’s journalism, please consider subscribing today.At the end of June, in the afterglow of a debate performance...

In June, Ivan Raiklin, a retired Green Beret and pro–Donald Trump activist, sat down for a chat with Cliven Bundy,...

Opportunity appears to be the word of the year in the Middle East. War has brought death and devastation to...