Adrienne LaFrance

The funniest people on the planet think there’s no funnier person than Albert Brooks.

No matter how many times the world doesn’t end, people will declare the end is near.

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

A newsletter from The Atlantic about the history of ideas

A conversation with the legendary comedian and filmmaker about what annoys him, how you know when something is funny, and his theory about John Lennon

The world doesn’t need more reminders that climate change is accelerating. But we’re going to keep getting them.

A conversation with the comedian on writing for laughs, the jokes he won’t tell, and the best advice he’s gotten from his comedic heroes

We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence.

America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

Maria Ressa is focused on three things: avoiding prison, fixing the entire internet, and saving democracy.

Twitter’s new owner doesn’t seem to grasp what he’s purchased.

If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the very definition of what it means to be American will change for women and girls in the United States.

Haruki Murakami’s stir fry, Maurice Sendak’s chicken soup with rice—only the most gifted writers have made meals on the page worth remembering.

A reader’s guide to The Atlantic’s coverage of a worsening democratic crisis

Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.

Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.

An infectious-disease doctor on what we know about the Delta variant and the risks that lie ahead.

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.

Good luck with that.

It is time to stop pretending. Our children are staying home.

American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.

Facebook has traded moral accountability for commercial gain, the former secretary of state tells The Atlantic. Clinton says Zuckerberg’s reasoning is “Trumpian.”

Over the centuries, our magazine has prized great storytelling. Now we’re recommitting ourselves to publishing short fiction, beginning with a story by Lauren Groff.

A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.

Goodbye, dragon show.

The network quickly corrected the errant chyron, but it captured something essential about Trump's approach to immigration.

Falling potatoes, reading lists, and humor critiques: a wide-ranging conversation with the legendary New York Times columnist, who died this week at 93

In the annals of revelatory Trump tweets, “covfefe” is the ultimate.

Pop-horror writers like R. L. Stine see fear and storytelling the way the Victorians did.

We made a cozy new corner of the internet for smart people who like words.

In a Saturday tweetstorm, the president complained that “too many voices are being destroyed” by social media, amid an ongoing controversy about the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s use of Twitter.

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is protecting Alex Jones’s publishing power in the name of “what serves the public conversation best.” His reasoning is absurd.

This isn’t the first time the billionaire has dabbled in the news business.

Either that, or he doesn’t care.

Donald Trump used an infamous phrase to describe U.S. military action in Syria, the latest in the president’s tradition of remixing and amplifying messages from his predecessors.

Revisiting a film embraced by the 1968 generation

He’s arguably the best quarterback of all time. That’s part of what makes him the absolute worst.

The storyline is the same, but the technology changes.

A top leader at the newspaper says it took an ultra-nuanced approach in deciding how to handle allegations against a star reporter.

A memo from The Atlantic's editors in 1973 is weirdly relevant today.