Kathryn Paige Harden is a clinical-psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality.

This week the government reopened after the longest closure in the nation’s history. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss how moderate lawmakers brokered a deal with Senate ...

The unbelievable tale of Jesus’s wife: A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But ...

Meg Jay is a developmental clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia and the author, most recently, of The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age. She ...

They wonder what young people—without the challenges of partners or kids or mortgages or aging bodies—could be so unhappy about. But 20-somethings are the least likely group to have the things that ...

Russell Brand had found his people, that much was clear. Last Saturday, in front of 800 fans in a hotel ballroom in Austin, ...

Trump noticed. Recall how Watergate unfolded. Burglars paid by the Nixon reelection campaign bugged telephones at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex. They ...

Clark Hoyt is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who worked for 38 years for Knight Ridder newspapers, including as Washington bureau chief and vice president of news. He subsequently served as ...

Noah Baumbach’s new film, Jay Kelly, takes a gamble with its fantastically successful protagonist.

The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.

The writer insists that it’s normal to “ingratiate” oneself with sources—even if that means serving as a de facto media ...

And the morning views of my north Georgia mountains made me smile and warmed my heart.” As Greene said, she’d wound up on the ...