Franklin Foer
He is the author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future and World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. He was previously the editor of The New Republic and a staff writer at Slate and New York magazine. His other books include How Soccer Explains the World and Jewish Jocks (co-edited with Marc Tracy), which won a National Jewish Book Award.
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The Atlantic* The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending
Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans—and demolish the liberal order they helped establish.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty The Real Reason Trump Loves Putin
A new book explores the American right’s tendency to admire and want to emulate foreign dictators.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Corruption Unbound
Donald Trump and his cronies left his first administration with a playbook for self-enrichment in a second term.
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Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty ‘How Much Can This Child Take?’
After Hamas’s attack, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg wait for news of their son.
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Marcus Yam / Getty Tell Me How This Ends
The Israeli operation faces the same question that ultimately vexed the American project in Iraq: What comes next?
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Inside Biden’s ‘Hug Bibi’ Strategy
The president believes the best way to shape Israeli strategy is to start with reassurance, and then use the trust he’s built.
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Photo-illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: … Biden Will Be Guided by His Zionism
The president is committed to supporting the Jewish state, but the conflict threatens his other regional priorities.
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Photo-illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Sources: Associated Press; Anadolu … The Final Days
Joe Biden was determined to get out of Afghanistan—no matter the cost.
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Cait Oppermann / Trunk Archive Megan Rapinoe Answers the Critics
The retiring soccer star on her detractors, the U.S. team’s role in the global game, and taking penalty kicks
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Cameron Spencer / Getty Women’s Soccer Won the World Cup
Spain won the tournament. The whole women’s game will benefit.
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Asanka Brendon Ratnayake / Reuters I’m Supporting Colombia Now
For its electric style and all that its players have overcome to reach the Women’s World Cup, it’s a no-brainer.
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Robin Alam / USSF / Getty The End of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Dominance
The rest of the world has caught up—and that’s a good thing.
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The Atlantic / Getty Biden Declares War on the Cult of Efficiency
New antitrust guidelines revive the old-fashioned idea that American life is about more than just buying lots of cheap stuff.
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Heritage Art / Getty Obsessed With the Life That Could Have Been
In her latest novel, Deborah Levy continues a career-long search for the authentic self.
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Marla Aufmuth / Getty Eat, Pray, Pander
The decision by Elizabeth Gilbert to indefinitely delay the publication of her novel is a wrongheaded attempt to help the Ukrainian cause.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty Should We Psychoanalyze Our Presidents?
Sigmund Freud once applied his Oedipal theory to the leader of the free world.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Eric Thayer / … The New Washington Consensus
Both Trump and Biden have positioned themselves as economic nationalists, self-consciously abandoning the precepts of the old order.
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Lea Suzuki / San Francisco Chronicle / Getty Dianne Feinstein and the Cult of Indispensability
When does the beneficent version of gerontocracy give way to the destructive version of it?
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty Can Humanism Save Us?
In her new book, Sarah Bakewell champions an intellectual tradition that might be just what we need today—if only we could properly define it.
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Stringer / Reuters / Redux No Time for Funeral Rites
The gravedigger of Bucha provides evidence of Russian atrocities.
