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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fits into a long history of Americans who have waged battle against conventional medicine.

A new adaptation of The Piano Lesson updates the playwright’s convictions about how legacies are passed down through generations.

As 100-year lifespans become more common, the time has come for a new approach to school, work, and retirement.

A look at some of the most memorable events of 2024, including a deadly earthquake in central Japan, the relocation of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, a rat hole in Chicago, and much more

They spent more than a decade tacking left on the issue to win Latino votes. It may have cost them the White House—twice.

In the first days of Syria’s freedom, the country’s citizens appear to be behaving like traumatized, decent people worthy of their liberty.

Tech billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Marc Andreessen aren’t even trying to mask their politics anymore.

Doctors might be slow to admit it, but Ozempic and other GLP-1s drugs are making diet and exercise obsolete.

December 9, 2024, 8:16 AM ET For The Atlantic’s January cover story, “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment,” staff writer Caitlin Flanagan writes for the first time about growing up with the Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, and what her family’s close friendship with the Heaney family offered her. S...

The notion of political realignment in the Lone Star State is older than you think. It goes back to Giant, an acidic novel by Edna Ferber.

Physical spaces can either encourage or discourage relationships. But people also have to be willing to slow down and connect.