Other people can be baffling; these titles attempt to unravel a bit of their mystery.

Joining The Atlantic are staff writers Kristen V. Brown, Nicholas Florko, and Shayla Love; and Roxanne Khamsi and Rachel Sugar as contributing writers.

It shouldn’t be this hard to decide.

Not one soul

Lonely Americans are thirsty for companionship and hungry for money.

Some people attribute mystical powers to positive thinking, but you can harness a practical version to gain real benefits.

The Dare’s music is a blast, and a challenge to the psychological hang-ups of modern hedonists.

Wearable tech doesn’t have to be expensive to be revolutionary.

A small group of lawmakers with military or intelligence backgrounds prefigured Harris’s overtly patriotic campaign.

In brick-and-mortar retail, bigger is not always better.

Now is the perfect time to test whether your “cold” is something else.

Is this an election campaign or an extended ad for energy drinks?

A medal-winning performance in Paris

How the history of propaganda helps us understand our current reality

Is this the most important election ever? Representative Jared Golden doesn’t think so.

An annual speed-writing contest lets in the robot overlords, and I, for one, welcome them.

street light can do things other light can’tall that was to be was what it wasclownish light nothing morethen suddenly you find yourself in something’s abject glorya trill of color on dirty winter icestreet light can do what other light can’tto wander the soft dark outside the circle of lightragged circle from the street lightit was always this way heredarkness like expression of doubt spills overwhen excess thought leads to starlingsa geometry taking wingThis poem appears in the October 2024 print edition.

Why I swim out into rough seas 80 nights a year to hunt for striped bass

We all want more time with our friends, but we’re spending more time alone.

The show’s masterful fourth outing unpacks the steep cost of a trade in which people are expendable.