social media

March 23, 2026

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Global

What Trump’s America Looks Like From China

Lavender Au

March 2, 2026

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Politics

Conservative Women Find a New Way to Talk About ICE

Elaine Godfrey

February 10, 2026

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Technology

Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

February 9, 2026

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Technology

Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship

Donald Moynihan

February 3, 2026

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Ideas

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

Keith Humphreys and Jonathan Caulkins

February 2, 2026

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Ideas

The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films

Rose Horowitch

January 30, 2026

Technology

The New Shadowbanning Panic

Kaitlyn Tiffany

January 28, 2026

A stylized illustration of a cracked smartphone against a dark-blue background. The phone displays what appears to be a TikTok-style video interface with text reading "ICE OUT" visible at the top. The image is heavily obscured by colorful digital-glitch effects—horizontal bars and rectangular blocks in cyan, magenta, purple, and teal—that fragment and distort the screen, suggesting censorship or digital interference. The phone has visible cracks across its screen, and the overall aesthetic conveys themes of social-media suppression or content moderation.

Global

The Online World Where Iranians Were Free

Nahid Siamdoust

January 23, 2026

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Technology

Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once

Charlie Warzel

January 6, 2026

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Technology

Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine

Matteo Wong

January 2, 2026

Ideas

How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation

Graeme Wood

December 19, 2025

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Technology

Australia’s Grand Social-Media Experiment

Kaitlyn Tiffany

December 18, 2025

Podcasts

Is This the End of Kids on Social Media?

Hanna Rosin

December 4, 2025

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Technology

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors

Charlie Warzel

November 24, 2025

Technology

The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

Damon Beres

December 2025 Issue

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The Atlantic Daily

MAGA’s Group-Chat Problem

David A. Graham

October 22, 2025

Family

The Great Friendship Flattening

Julie Beck

October 16, 2025

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Family

Avoiding Ultra-Processed Foods Is Completely Unrealistic

Olga Khazan

October 13, 2025

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Ideas

Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?

Elias Wachtel

October 9, 2025

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Books

The Publishing Industry’s Most Swoon-Worthy Genre

Rebecca Ackermann

October 5, 2025

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Education

How to Think, Not What to Think

Sian Leah Beilock

September 19, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The Awful Ubiquity of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video

Will Gottsegen

September 11, 2025

Technology

YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’

Alex Reisner

August 22, 2025

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Ideas

MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It

Tom Nichols

August 22, 2025

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Technology

The Culture War Over Nothing

Kaitlyn Tiffany

August 15, 2025

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Technology

The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution

Jessica Yellin

August 13, 2025

Books

The Tech Novel’s Warning for a Screen-Addled Age

Sarah Rose Etter

August 6, 2025

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Ideas

What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones

Lenore Skenazy, Zach Rausch, and Jonathan Haidt

August 4, 2025

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Ideas

This Is the News From TikTok

Amogh Dimri

August 2, 2025

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Technology

The Discourse Is Broken

Charlie Warzel

July 29, 2025

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Technology

The Desperation of Donald Trump’s Posts

Charlie Warzel

July 22, 2025

Ideas

A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin

Alan Z. Rozenshtein

July 8, 2025

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Politics

Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter!

Missy Ryan, Shane Harris, Isaac Stanley-Becker, and Jonathan Lemire

June 24, 2025

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Family

The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius

Rheana Murray

June 17, 2025

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Family

What’s So Shocking About a Man Who Loves His Wife?

Jeremy Gordon

June 9, 2025

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Sections

The Print Edition

Canceled by Hinge

What Trump’s America Looks Like From China

Conservative Women Find a New Way to Talk About ICE

Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.

Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films

The New Shadowbanning Panic

The Online World Where Iranians Were Free

Everything Reacting to Everything, All at Once

Elon Musk’s Pornography Machine

How to Treat Purveyors of Baseless Speculation

Australia’s Grand Social-Media Experiment

Is This the End of Kids on Social Media?

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors

The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

MAGA’s Group-Chat Problem

The Great Friendship Flattening

Avoiding Ultra-Processed Foods Is Completely Unrealistic

Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?

The Publishing Industry’s Most Swoon-Worthy Genre

How to Think, Not What to Think

The Awful Ubiquity of Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video

YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’

MAGA World Is So Close to Getting It

The Culture War Over Nothing

The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution

The Tech Novel’s Warning for a Screen-Addled Age

What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones

This Is the News From TikTok

The Discourse Is Broken

The Desperation of Donald Trump’s Posts

A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin

Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter!

The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius

What’s So Shocking About a Man Who Loves His Wife?