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Wilmot Collins fled a civil war in Liberia with big ideas about what America can be. But can it ever live up to what he imagined?

She hasn’t been a great parent to me, and I don’t want her repeating those patterns with my future kids.

January 30, 2023, 6:37 AM ETThe metaverse started as science fiction. In his 1992 novel, Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson imagined a world of visual entertainment so immersive that people could essentially live within it. In her cover story for The Atlantic, Megan Garber argues that this new era of entertainment has alre...

Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.

Olivia Arthur / MagnumJanuary 29, 2023, 8 AM ET Lucy, when I die, I want you to scatter one-third of my ashes among the sand dunes of Virginia Beach. Here I’ve come every summer for three and a half decades. Here you and Eleanor learned to swim in the ocean waves and bodysurf. Here your mother and I once walked hand...

Clint Smith’s culture picks include Fatimah Asghar’s first book of fiction and a sad song by Boyz II Men.

Because of the sheer prevalence of police brutality in America, public officials have gotten better at managing the shock.

When techno-optimists use ChatGPT, they see Star Trek: a future in which opportunities for personal fulfillment are as large as the universe itself.

The police officers who fatally beat Tyre Nichols must have known their actions were being recorded, but that hardly seemed to deter them.