David A. Graham is a staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is the author of The ...

Susan Tallman, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, is an art historian and the author, most recently, of Kerry James Marshall: The Complete Prints: 1976–2022.

Decades into their recovery program, black-footed ferrets still don’t have a clear-cut path to leaving the endangered-species list. Several mRNA vaccine trials found a debilitating side effect, and ...

If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.

America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again.

Yes, the U.S. has the larger consumer economy. No, that won’t be enough to avoid major (and majorly self-inflicted) pain.