Folk Culture

It’s called the “longest-swim problem”: If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any...

The Wegmans in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard is—sorry to be dramatic—paradise on Earth: 74,000 square feet of high ceilings and long...

A curious set of claims has recently emerged from the right-wing corners of the social-media platform X: FEMA is systematically...

When Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed last month, my social-media feeds lit up with images and videos from Syria,...

As the young Donald Trump in the new film The Apprentice, Sebastian Stan slouches while he walks, pouts while he...

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The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from...

Lore Segal, who died on Monday, spent the last four months of her life looking out the window. Her world...

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

These days, you can easily find vapes in flavors that include “Lush Ice,” “Blueberry Banana,” “Mango Lychee,” “Hot Fudge,” and...