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In the first days of Syria’s freedom, the country’s citizens appear to be behaving like traumatized, decent people worthy of their liberty.

Tech billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Marc Andreessen aren’t even trying to mask their politics anymore.

Doctors might be slow to admit it, but Ozempic and other GLP-1s drugs are making diet and exercise obsolete.

December 9, 2024, 8:16 AM ET For The Atlantic’s January cover story, “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment,” staff writer Caitlin Flanagan writes for the first time about growing up with the Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, and what her family’s close friendship with the Heaney family offered her. S...

The notion of political realignment in the Lone Star State is older than you think. It goes back to Giant, an acidic novel by Edna Ferber.

Physical spaces can either encourage or discourage relationships. But people also have to be willing to slow down and connect.

Moscow can seek to preserve its most important assets in Syria through cooperation with an Alawite autonomous zone—if that community moves quickly to establish one.

Especially in major cities, the idea of simply walking into a restaurant and sitting down can seem quaint.