He wants out, but Iran could likely keep going for months. First published in The Atlantic on May 8, 2026. P resident Trump really, really wants the war with Iran to end. He has declared victory many ...

The Democratic wilderness is starting to look awfully sunny. Gone, for the most part, are the blame-casting, hand-wringing, and paralysis-by-analysis that gripped the party after Donald Trump’s ...

I t’s a low bar, perhaps, but no one in the Trump administration seems to be having more fun at the moment than Marco Rubio. Last weekend, he was acting as a DJ at a family wedd ...

A crackdown on cigarettes has certainly been a long time coming. As late as 1974, at least 40 percent of Americans were smokers. But that figure declined steadily over the next half century. Today, ...

Michael Scherer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Nick Miroff is a staff writer at The Atlantic who covers immigration, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S.-Mexico border. He can be ...

Do you really like that new song—or is someone manipulating you?

Incorporating these books into a literary diet—whether or not a person has children—can help anyone to see and hear with fresh eyes and ears, to find or rediscover wonder in the large (mountain ranges ...

Your movements,” the neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett told me, “whether it’s on your face or in your body or the tones that you emit, don’t have inherent emotional meaning. They ...

Sydney (dpa) - Australien kämpft den Gesundheitsbehörden zufolge mit dem schwersten Ausbruch von Diphtherie seit Jahrzehnten.

Essen (dpa) - Helmut Rahn ist wieder da. Das restaurierte Denkmal des 2003 verstorbenen WM-Siegtorschützen von 1954 steht wieder vor dem Stadion an der Hafenstraße. Rechtzeitig zum Relegations-Hinspie ...

Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) - Nach einem lebensgefährlichen Angriff auf einen 44 Jahre alten Mann in Stuttgart im April übernimmt nun ...

Berlin (dpa) - Ältere Menschen sollen künftig keinen neuen Personalausweis mehr beantragen müssen. Wer bei der Beantragung seines letzten Personalausweises 70 Jahre oder älter war, soll diesen unbegre ...