The writers of The Atlantic have a long history of fretting about the youths.

A fantastical new novel from Karen Russell turns the whispered secrets of a Dust Bowl town into a bold metaphor for repressed ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself). The British historian ...

Along with Memorial Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth became one of three federal holidays with explicit roots ...

A leaked preliminary assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency on June 24 said that the damage was minimal. Whom to ...

At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

I was at once overwhelmed by the panorama of distinctly American excess and moved by the great variety of American life to ...

Yet greater awareness of sleep deprivation’s consequences hasn’t translated into a better-rested populace. Data from the CDC ...

America has more great-grandparents than ever. It also has a new caretaking challenge.

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

The contours of World War III are visible in numerous conflicts. The president of the United States is not ready.

Yesterday, in a 6–3 decision in Trump v. CASA, the United States Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a case ...