At first glance, plants may seem passive – but beneath their stillness lies a world of complexity and constant activity. Plants are highly sensitive to their surroundings, continuously monitoring ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) hit a fresh patch of bearishness on Monday, easing back slightly from the week’s early highs near 46,500. Equities remain apprehensive as a looming government ...

Marilynne Robinson, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of a National Humanities Medal, is one of the world’s great writers. Her novels, including the four that have come to be known as the ...

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Ezra Klein to discuss how the left should think about the work of politics and persuasion in this moment.

Sam Harris on Silicon Valley’s turn toward authoritarian politics and the collapse of the information commons. Plus: Donald Trump’s politicization of prosecutions and Robert Proctor’s The Nazi War on ...

Our concern is the harm imposed on people with mental health conditions, no matter which terms are used. Identity is solely at the discretion of the individual. Thus, omitting “lived experience” can ...

I n 1979, five months after my seventh birthday, my father crashed his plane into an orange grove and died. Dad, a pilot, had gone up in one of his twin-props with a friend and lost control after some ...

In 2021, tech entrepreneur Jeff Atwood sold Stack Overflow, an online informational network for computer programmers, for $1.8 billion. Rather than hoard that fortune, Atwood announced earlier this ...

Ada Aggarwal Human history has ever been defined by ongoing competition over limited and valuable resources. The 20th century made it obvious that oil was the driving force of power politics and ...

If you happened to come of age at the turn of the century in Orange County, Calif., then you likely felt the buzz that was generating around Irvine’s up-and-coming rock outfit, Thrice. A major label ...

The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. In 1979, five months ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s founding and sustaining donors drilled for oil, ran banks, formed monopolies, busted ...