The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.
I argued that Jens Söring was wrongfully convicted of a double murder, and in 2019, he was released on parole after three decades in prison. Then I started having doubts about the case.
His 2024 considerations are less about logic or persuasion and more about personality.
An awkward, unfunny cold open fails to meet the moment.
If the former president really did order an assassination—as his lawyers argue he could—does anyone believe it would cost him his supporters?
As Tibetan Buddhism spreads through China, Xi sees an opportunity to consolidate his rule.
A tiny start-up has made some of the most convincing AI voices. Are its creators ready for the chaos they’re unleashing?
Jane Schoenbrun, the director of the unsettling new film I Saw the TV Glow, has some ideas.
Photographs from a pivotal day in American history
Flag dishes you want to make, or don’t: The point of this practice is pleasure, not pragmatism.
If you feel too rushed even to read this, then your life could use a change.
Why has the media establishment become so unpopular? Perhaps the public has good reason to think that the media’s self-aggrandizement gets in the way of solving the country’s real problems. (From 1996)
“Hemingway says somewhere that the good writer competes only with the dead. The good detective story writer … competes not only with all the unburied dead but with all the hosts of the living as well.” (From 1944)
Some scientists are starting to reopen a provocative debate: Are plants intelligent?
A new season of the How To series from The Atlantic