17+ hour, 28+ min ago   (86+ words) The Atlantic Today The Atlantic is launching The Permanent Questions, a new video podcast hosted by staff writer David Brooks about the fundamental questions of human life that every generation—and every individual—must attempt to answer. In new episodes…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (87+ words) theatlantic.com It wasn’t always regarded as the intensely athletic sport that it is. If the case for this assertion is clear today, it was perhaps less obvious in 1903, when the question of which sport should hold such a title…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (716+ words) Washington, D.C., is full of cords of connection. By removing a Joel Shapiro work, the Kennedy Center severed one. Workers dismantled Blue last Wednesday. No specific reason was given, save that the change had occurred at the center’s request. Internal documents…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (107+ words) The Atlantic After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to announce his retirement from the institution at the end of this year,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (192+ words) The word isn’t new—but lately, it’s everywhere. Read: How did healing ourselves get so exhausting? Read: These Millennials can’t get out of their head Read: The self-help that no one needs right now But the somatics packaging of these…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (76+ words) The Atlantic A renewed threat underscores the museum complex’s isolation—and the limits of Trump’s pressure campaign. The Trump administration’s latest strategy to control the Smithsonian has the logic of lunchroom bullying; the Department of Interior is channeling “you can’t…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (376+ words) A board of Trump loyalists keeps dragging out a legal fight over the center’s future. To put the legal fight over the Kennedy Center in operatic terms, it has become more than a little Wagnerian. After another hearing this week…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (54+ words) A sheep-crossing-water contest in Turkey, a pilgrimage festival in Portugal, a devastating flood in Nepal, robot racing in China, a tomato-fight fiesta in Spain, and much more... A sheep-crossing-water contest in Turkey, a pilgrimage festival in Portugal, a devastating flood…...

3+ week, 19+ min ago   (51+ words) The Atlantic Behind the moniker, in 1976, was a kind of hope. As I turn 50 and the nation reaches 250, the mood feels distinctly different. Read: Inside America’s ugly birthday battle Jerusalem Demsas: The end of Francis Fukuyama Read: Trump’s 250th celebration is…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (143+ words) The president’s first administration was a boon for satirists. Today, many of them are sick of the shtick. It was disorienting, then, to hear Baldwin declare, when I spoke with him earlier this summer, that this sort of comedy has…...