The good news is that in the states most likely to be decisive, that group of people is not in control. The mechanisms of ...

a year of great music offers a reminder that more really can be more: more melodies, more breakthroughs, more art.

Those rat-proof bins? Not rat-proof after all.

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Michel Houellebecq rails against most ideologies, but his latest novel exposes his love of conversion narratives.

Yes, it’s easy to be cynical. The West Wing was a TV show—a very good one, depicting a world very much still yearned for, ...

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Gal Beckerman is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author, most recently, of The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas.

Hackish campaign memoirs shouldn’t indict the entire genre—there are truly excellent books written about power from the inside.

I also more clearly understand Trump’s strategy: to rile up voters over positions that he thinks the Democrats won’t dare ...

In the United States, solar accounted for more than half of all new power last year. But the most dramatic growth is ...

The plight of Yaroslav Bazylevych poses a challenge to the West. They need to overcome the alienation of the radicals and the clannishness of the elites. Conspiracism and hyper-partisanship in the ...