A Hollywood CEO Tried to Kill This Movie. Now It’s His Latest Humiliation.
His plan to bury the film blew up in his face like a stick of dynamite.
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Money Talks: In the Market for a T. rex Skull?
A look at the growing industry of buying and selling dinosaur fossils.
Adults Everywhere Are Suddenly Trying to Get Their Hands on a 30-Year-Old Children’s Game
It’s inspired robberies, counterfeits, and multimillion-dollar sales.
Trump Even Managed to Piss Off Canada
The U.S.-Canada trade talks fell spectacularly apart after Donald Trump made wild demands of our neighbors to the north.
The Big AI Questions Episode
We ask an A.I. consultant all our burning questions, like “Is China winning the A.I.
Hospitals say coming Trump administration rules are worse than GOP’s Medicaid cuts
Hospitals have launched a lobbying blitz to stave off Trump administration rules they say will lose them hundreds of billions of dollars.
White House strikes new drug-pricing deals
The Trump administration is touting deals with nine drugmakers ahead of the midterm elections.
RFK Jr.’s Health Department leads Trump’s push to add politicals to the federal workforce
Political roles are way up. Career staffing is way down, despite a push to hire after last year’s downsizing.
Shapiro won’t say who died of measles. RFK Jr. is exploiting it.
The Health secretary suggested the Pennsylvania governor is hiding something about the deaths’ cause. Shapiro says he can’t say more.
When Church Was a Queer Space
Outward’s hosts sit down with the host and co-creator of When We All Get to Heaven.
Remembering, with the People of MCC San Francisco, AIDS Still Isn’t Over.
The neighborhood changes, the church moves, people forget and remember “the AIDS years,” but AIDS isn’t over.
What Happens When You Organize Church Around AIDS – and AIDS Changes?
The AIDS cocktail opens new possibilities. And MCC San Francisco tries to use the experience of AIDS to make bigger social change.
The Church’s Pastor Gets Diagnosed with AIDS. And the Church Wonders How Much They Might Lose.
The church’s minister gets sick and everyone knows it.
A Church Romance Between a Hula Dancer and a Lumbersexual Blossoms in a Dangerous Time.
The church’s “it couple” faces AIDS, caregiving, and loss as part of a pair, part of families, and part of a community.
Will Kevin Warsh Squander a Huge Opportunity?
The new Fed chair will have the spotlight at the central bank’s high-profile conference in Jackson Hole. He should use it.
Vance asks Mainers to vote Republican — as Trump ups the trade war with Canada
Vice President JD Vance’s visit marked his second to Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in four months.
Trump’s Antitrust Gambit May Backfire
In March, one of the most important antitrust cases in recent memory went to trial. The Department of Justice and 39 states plus the District of Columbia had sued the ticketing-and-entertainment giant Live Nation, alleging that its 2010 merger with Ticketmaster had created an effective monopoly on live shows.
The Vicious Cycle Trump May Restart
By the time he retired from the Marine Corps, in 1931, Major General Smedley Butler had served in Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, the Philippines, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and China. It was the golden age of American imperialism, and Butler was one of its golden boys, among the most decorated fighters in U.S. history.
But over time, Butler began to have doubts about what he was doing. “I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service,” he wrote in 1935.
How the Early Dreams of the Internet Changed
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.
During the 1984 Super Bowl, an advertisement launched a technological revolution. If you were alive, you probably know the one. Directed by Ridley Scott, the minute-long spot showed men in gray uniforms, heads shaved, eyes blank, marching in unison toward a lifeless auditorium.
The Hasan Piker Question
Like late-summer humidity, Hasan Piker hangs heavy over the discourse.
At a rally on Monday, Vice President Vance brought up the hard-left streamer in an attempt to paint the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as anti-American. Last week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called Piker’s recent statements about Jewish Americans “dangerous and anti-Semitic.” Senators Jon Ossoff, Cory Booker, and Jacky Rosen said much the same.
RFK Jr. is investigating whether troops died of Covid vaccine, Army doctor says
Theresa Long is one of a few advisers to the health secretary examining whether the government covered up vaccine side effects.
An Alien Scholar’s Notes on Trump’s Washington
We’ll start this conference looking back on 2026 Washington Architecture by being honest: We have no idea what happened here. The snapshot of this planet that my comrades and I managed to obtain on our brief visit left us, if anything, more confused about Earth than we had been before. What follows are theories only.
All we know of 21st-century human political figure Donald J. Trump is what we can guess from the architectural record and a few bits of digital evidence.
AI Could Revolutionize Medicine, But Humans Must Be in Charge: Researcher Shreya Johri
As part of our ongoing series on artificial intelligence, we speak with researcher Shreya Johri, who says AI has the power to revolutionize the field of medicine, particularly in diagnosing patients. Johri is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and completed her Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School in 2025. She discusses ways that new technology is improving patient care, but she says AI must be treated like an additional tool and not be given control over patient care.
“Modern-Day Poll Tax”: Dem. Texas Commissioner Slams GOP Vote to Close 92 Polling Sites
Ahead of the November midterm elections, Republican officials in the third most populous county of Texas have voted to slash the number of polling sites by nearly one-third. Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, will have just 224 polling sites for 1.3 million voters. The change was approved in a party-line vote Tuesday, with all three of the county’s Republican commissioners voting in favor and the two Democrats opposing it.
“Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election
An anonymous federal whistleblower has warned that the Trump administration’s new system for handling mail ballots through the U.S. Postal Service is untested, fatally flawed and likely to lead to a “catastrophic failure” if it’s implemented ahead of November’s midterm elections. This follows President Trump’s executive order in March directing his administration to create federal lists of citizens and to refuse delivery of mail-in ballots to people not on those lists.
Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon & Ms. Magazine Co-Founder, Dies at 92
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. According to her Instagram page, she died Wednesday “at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her.” Steinem was a tireless advocate for the social, economic and political advancement of women. Steinem co-founded Ms. magazine, the first major publication to be owned, run and written by women.
A Hollywood CEO Tried to Kill This Movie. Now It’s His Latest Humiliation.
His plan to bury the film blew up in his face like a stick of dynamite.
Money Talks: In the Market for a T. rex Skull?
A look at the growing industry of buying and selling dinosaur fossils.
Adults Everywhere Are Suddenly Trying to Get Their Hands on a 30-Year-Old Children’s Game
It’s inspired robberies, counterfeits, and multimillion-dollar sales.
Trump Even Managed to Piss Off Canada
The U.S.-Canada trade talks fell spectacularly apart after Donald Trump made wild demands of our neighbors to the north.