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Updated Sep 13, 2026 · 22 entries
The Atlantic · Sep 13, 2026

What Is the Good Life?

The philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan doesn’t just want to teach her students about virtue; she wants to make them better human beings.

The Atlantic · Sep 13, 2026

<em>The Atlantic </em>Launches New Weekly Video Podcast, <em>The Permanent Questions </em>With David Brooks

The Atlantic · Sep 13, 2026

Facing the Music

A poem

The Atlantic · Sep 13, 2026

It’s All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card

AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong.

The Atlantic · Sep 13, 2026

This Is What Women’s Self-Defense Looks Like

It’s not just about protection. It’s about living a bigger life.

The Marginalian · Sep 13, 2026

The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War

How an ancient survivor of the unsurvivable became a triumph of the human spirit in a divided world.

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The Atlantic · Sep 13, 2026

The Birth of the New Legal Right

Forty-four years ago, a conservative legal convention offered disaffected students an identity—and hope.

The Atlantic · Sep 13, 2026

The Property-Tax Revolution

States can’t afford these cuts.

The Marginalian · Sep 13, 2026

The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World

"By reaching beyond the brain... we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone."

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The Atlantic · Sep 13, 2026

Trump’s Secret Points System for Cabinet Members

The White House held a summer contest to see who could appear in the most congressional districts and states with competitive midterm elections.

Nautilus · Sep 13, 2026

Gondwana Really Was a Supercontinent

And it helped kick‑start life on Earth The post Gondwana Really Was a Supercontinent appeared first on Nautilus .

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Vox · Sep 13, 2026

How to find a date in real life

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Everything · Sep 13, 2026

“Driveway,” by Stephanie Horvath

“In the gut, / In the mouth, / In the irreducible / ‘Bile’ humor.”

Magazine / Poems
Everything · Sep 13, 2026

Joyce Carol Oates on Embedded Memories

The author discusses her story “Lost Child.”

Books / This Week in Fiction
Everything · Sep 13, 2026

How to Protect Democracy

The emergence of Germany’s far right as a political force represents an old dilemma.

Magazine / CommentNews / The Lede
Everything · Sep 13, 2026

What’s Left of the Back-to-the-Landers

A new book captures the hard-headed and hearty few who have kept the movement alive.

Culture / Photo Booth
Everything · Sep 13, 2026

“Lost Child,” by Joyce Carol Oates

It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside.

Magazine / Fiction
Everything · Sep 13, 2026

What the Met’s John Galliano Reversal Reveals

The Costume Institute’s decision to scrap its controversial exhibition for the British fashion designer is a reminder that a few checks on power still exist.

Culture / Critic’s Notebook
Everything · Sep 13, 2026

“Late September,” by Jodie Hollander

“Now the air / is darker; my garden plots are empty.”

Magazine / Poems
Everything · Sep 13, 2026

Is Zionism’s Moral Crisis About Roads Not Taken—or Original Sin?

Where Benjamin Moser replaces one story of Jewish exceptionalism with another, Omer Bartov shows what’s lost when polemic takes the place of history.

Magazine / A Critic at Large
Everything · Sep 13, 2026

Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Lost Child”

The author reads her story from the September 21, 2026, issue of the magazine.

Podcast / The Writer’s Voice
Vox · Sep 13, 2026

How to be an ethical gossip

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