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Updated with new questions at 4:50 p.m. ET on December 12, 2025. You’ve been waiting to build...

In rejecting yesterday a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump, Indiana’s Republican-controlled senate did not merely...

During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump coined a term for his pinballing speaking style—“the weave.” This...

NASA, ESA, STScI Day 12 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Barred Spiral. This galaxy,...

Here are some data points that Republicans ought to bear in mind as they contemplate their health-care...

Perhaps you’ve seen the poster for Ella McCay and marveled at its title character, a woman who’s...

Editor’s Note: Find all of  The Atlantic’s “Best of 2025” coverage here. So this is the future? Judging...

The therapists are being gaslit by gaslighting—they’re being told that it’s happening, but it’s not. Jonathan Alpert,...

It goes like this: When six and seven appear together in print, or in speech, or on...