'What was striking about [Stormy] Daniels’s story was how normal it seemed. Setting aside the identities of the people involved ... elements were reminiscent of an uncertain disclosure that you might hear from a friend over brunch,' Quinta Jurecic writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Moderate sun exposure can be good for you. Why won’t American experts acknowledge that? Rowan Jacobsen reports: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

“My son wanted to quit, but in a way that would not break my heart,” writes Rich Cohen. “He also didn’t want me to rant and rave and try to talk him out of it”: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“I have had cats since I was a boy, and all of them were wonderful, but one of them left a mark on my life forever.” Tom Nichols honors the memory of Carla, his beloved pet, in The Atlantic Daily: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

This week on Washington Week with The Atlantic | PBS, Peter Baker, Elaina Plott Calabro, Jonathan Karl, and Vivian Salama join @jeffreygoldberg to discuss what Stormy Daniels’s testimony against Donald Trump, third-party candidates, and more could mean for the looming presidential election. theatlantic.com/national/archi…

Fifty years ago, the architect Peter Blake questioned everything he thought he knew about modern building.

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George and Lori Schappell, who died last month at 62, spent their adult lives finding their way through a world not designed for them. American society is still struggling to determine whether to accommodate bodies like theirs, S.I. Rosenbaum writes: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Naming a child after her mother seems radical. But some women are turning that idea on its head. Maggie Mertens reported in 2022: theatln.tc/qlefCjW3

A federal appeals court has upheld Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction.

In 2022, Jennifer Senior visited Bannon to understand his scheming—and the threat he poses to democracy. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

'The Antisemitism Awareness Act is well intentioned but misguided,' Conor Friedersdorf writes. 'If hostile-feeling positions become unsayable on campus, even as they are widespread in society, academia will become irrelevant in a vital debate.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The feud between the rappers Kendrick Lamar and Drake has become far bigger than music alone, Spencer Kornhaber writes: theatln.tc/AjwjFjYK theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

'We are living in the world Adobe Photoshop first teased 34 years ago,' Caroline Mimbs Nyce writes—but it's defined by generative AI, rather than the enterprise image-editing software. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

'It’s not that Trump bore any malice toward Daniels (that came later); it’s that she mattered to him only as a vehicle to sex,' David A. Graham writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

'Open a map of the United States. Select a big city at random. Chances are, it has recently approved or is on the verge of approving a lavish, taxpayer-funded stadium project for one or more of its local sports teams,' Dan Moore writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

'To a certain kind of listener, it sometimes seemed like Steve Albini was the last honest musician in the industry, though he would’ve shaken his head at such mythologizing,' Jeremy Gordon writes: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

When Daniel Radcliffe accepted his most famous role at age 11, he was warned that early fame would leave him “fucked up.” Chris Heath on how the actor escaped the long shadow of Harry Potter: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

A little gatekeeping of the latest cultural trends might be a healthy thing, writes W. David Marx: theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

'There is something compelling about a man who has gone to all the right schools and worked for all the right places and made a smashing success of himself who then turns and spits on all of it,' Thomas Chatterton Williams writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The “nudes internet,” Jane Coaston 🏔️ writes, is a space in which every ad, meme, and argument is reduced to sex. Not actual sexual intercourse, but “a world where sex means power and worth, and the goal is to accumulate it, for no reason but to have it.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

'It is nonsense that to shine, you need to go to a fancy school, bootlick bosses, or pay your dues at soul-sucking jobs working for bad people,' Jim VandeHei writes. 'You simply need to want to construct goodness with whatever life throws at you.' theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…