Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of ...

Early in his papacy, Francis made a declaration that now appears prophetic: “I want a mess.” ...

The broad message I heard in Yiwu was this: Trump had overestimated America’s leverage. At the end of this standoff, China, ...

Francis, who died this morning, transformed far more than the priorities of the Catholic Church.

In the gray language of the federal bureaucracy, the funding that mattered most was from the Teaching Health Centers Graduate ...

Elizabeth Hays, a white woman from central North Carolina, had never been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. But earlier this month, after she read about Donald Trump’s ...

By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening ...

Amy Woolard is a civil-rights attorney based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her first book of poems, Neck of the Woods, won the Alice James Prize and was published in 2020.

The United States could still prevail if it does everything right. The problem is that the Trump administration is doing ...

Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them ...

As grandparents take on more caregiving, their relationships with both their kids and their grandkids may start to look ...

As Donald Trump nears the end of his first 100 days in office, his administration continues to take aim at many American ...