Air travelers in America shall no more doff their chukkas, their wedges, their wingtips, their espadrilles, or their Mary Janes, according to a rule-change announced by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday. It’s been more than two decades since the Transportation Security Administration started putting people’s footwear through its scanners, after a man named Richard Reid tried and failed to detonate his high-top sneakers on a flight to Miami in December 2001.

As The Atlantic continues to expand its editorial team, today it announced the hire of Idrees Kahloon as a staff writer. Idrees is currently the Washington bureau chief of The Economist.
This week, The Atlantic also announced two additional staff writers: Vivian Salama, joining next month from The Wall Street Journal to cover national security and foreign policy; and Tom Bartlett, who began yesterday to cover health and science under the second Trump administration.

The One Big Beautiful Bill is law. Now what?
Not quite six months into his new term, President Donald Trump has fulfilled many of his campaign promises. He has cut taxes, launched trade wars, frustrated longtime international allies, cracked down on border crossings, and slashed the federal government. He steamrolled the opposition, including members of his own party, to push through Congress a far-reaching and expensive piece of legislation that contains nearly his entire domestic agenda.

These days, you could forgive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for feeling like an American CEO being whipsawed by President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs. But the Ukrainian president is not trying to maximize profits. He wants to win a war and needs a consistent, predictable flow of American weapons to do that.
He’s not getting it.
Late last month, the administration suspended a promised shipment of much-needed arms to Ukraine, saying the U.S.

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If you’re old enough, you’ve seen this movie: An eccentric billionaire, full of bile and nursing grudges against the incumbent Republican president, wants to create a third major political party and shake up the system.
In 1992, the billionaire was H.

As The Atlantic continues a major expansion of its editorial team, we are announcing that Tom Bartlett begins today as a staff writer covering health and science under the second Trump administration. Recently, Tom has covered the measles outbreak in West Texas, speaking with a parent of the first child to die of the disease in America in a decade and reporting on what RFK Jr. told grieving families about the measles vaccine.

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials
The unknown individual contacted at least five government officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.

A clear pattern has emerged in the extended back-and-forth over the legality of many Trump-administration actions. Donald Trump or a member of his Cabinet takes a certain step—say, firing an official protected from such removal, or destroying a government agency established by Congress, or seeking to ship a group of immigrants off to a country where they may be tortured or killed. Then, a lawsuit is quickly filed seeking to block the administration.