Hibernation Works for Bears. Could It Work for Us, Too? A grizzly’s body can slow down for months without damage. Researchers wonder if the ability can be harnessed to aid human health. In studying gr

What Places Are Hardest Hit by the Coronavirus? It Depends on the Measure By different metrics, all sorts of locations in the United States are deeply troubling, from Minot, N.D., to New York City. A

On Saturday morning, Megan Ranney was about to put on her scrubs when she heard that Joe Biden had won the presidential election. That day, she treated people with COVID-19 while street parties erupte

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. Mac OS X was no less than a rebirth of the Mac, 16 years after it first appeared on the scene. The code it originated with, and many of the software

The Atlantic is pleased to offer, below, an adapted and updated excerpt from former President Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land , which will be published on Tuesday by Crown. Yesterday, The A

Posted on November 8, 2020 Posted by John Scalzi This election should have been a landslide. Faced with a choice between a decent, if uninspiring, former Vice President with a long and solid track rec

Biden Can’t Be F.D.R. He Could Still Be L.B.J. He has the power to make transformational progress look like “C’mon Man” common sense. Will he use it? Nov. 6, 2020 Credit... Ben Hickey By Mr. Giridhara

Congratulations to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris. Congratulations to their families, to the thousands of Biden-Harris staff, and to the thousands of Democratic party

COLUMBIA, S.C.—This was the speech Jaime Harrison didn’t want to give. He rocked back and forth on the small outdoor stage. “We proved that a new South is rising. Tonight only slowed us down,” he told

It had been a long ride back from Sturgis, S.D., so when he first felt an ache at the back of his throat, Kenny Cervantes figured he was just tired. He’d traveled the 400-some miles on his Harley, rum

The president’s response to the pandemic should not have been a surprise. In December 2016, a month before Donald Trump was inaugurated, I asked how a pandemic would play out during his term . The que

The vast majority of the political conversation is centered on what politicians are saying — in their speeches, their tweets, and their ads. We care passionately about what is in the New York Times or

Obama’s New Gig: Gleefully Needling Trump Clearly relishing the chance to strike back at his successor, the former president has been willing to throw punches on behalf of Joe Biden’s unity-focused ca

T o say that Susan Polakoff Shaw is a delight is to say nothing particularly controversial. The 61-year-old Ohioan’s charm is an objective fact, like snow being cold or a square having four equal side

I recently asked Melissa Schwartzberg, a professor of politics at NYU who specializes in democratic theory, why democracy survives in some countries and crumbles in others. Why was I thinking about it

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. Apple is at its best when it’s so confident in its product plans that it repeatedly challenges and one-ups itself. Think of that quintessential momen

Many millions of miles from Earth, an asteroid and a spacecraft are traveling together. The asteroid, as wide as a skyscraper is tall, is ancient, almost as old as the solar system itself. The spacecr

Updated at 1:17 p.m. ET on October 1, 2020 There’s something strange about this coronavirus pandemic. Even after months of extensive research by the global scientific community, many questions remain

For all the turmoil in the country this year, our presidential election forecast has been remarkably stable. Dating back to June 1, the first date that we ran the forecast, 1 only two states had flipp

South Carolina Is Changing. Is It Enough to Put Jaime Harrison in the Senate? The state hasn’t had a Democratic senator in decades. Mr. Harrison is betting that immigration and growing support from wo

Posted on October 2, 2020 Posted by John Scalzi There is of course irony, of the cheap, Alanis Morissette sort, of a man so heavily invested in denying the reality and severity of the COVID-19 virus c

This matters. Remember: Back in 2015, when Donald Trump announced his campaign for president, about one-third of Republicans and Republican-leaners condemned the distribution of wealth in the United S

The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. S

After the novel coronavirus first appeared in Africa in late February, Ghana’s government decided it would take no chances. Ghanaian citizens were soon put under lockdown, and travel between major cit

California, the world’s fifth-largest economy and the state that created U.S. car culture, will stop selling gasoline-powered automobiles within 15 years, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Wednesday. Fa

(JL McAnally / Shutterstock) This article appears in the October 5/12, 2020 issue . I can’t keep up with all the different ways Donald Trump is trying to steal the upcoming presidential election. And

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. Thanks to reader David for sending me this IIci earlier this year. The original Macintosh was a squat, cute beige box with a little black-and-white s

Days before the tragic death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went to the floor of the Senate to try to save his endangered Senate Majority. Theoretically McConne

In California, smoke plumes spun into twisters made out of soot and flame, prompting the first-ever “fire tornado” warning. In Oregon, blazes advanced on towns so rapidly that even fire crews had to f

This article appears in the March 16/23, 2020 issue . Not a single significant policy or initiative proposed by the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination is likely to survive a Supreme

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her 20th anniversary on the bench, in August 2013. (Nikki Kahn / The Washington Post via Getty Images) She should have died hereafter. Justice Ruth Bade

I n the southern corner of Guatemala, outside the tiny mountain town of San Pedro Yepocapa, Elmer Gabriel’s coffee plants ought to be leafed-out and gleaming. It is a week before Christmas, the heart

No state has haunted the Democratic Party’s imagination for the past four years like Wisconsin. While it was not the only state that killed Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes in 2016, it was the one

iPad Pro, you’re on the clock. Tuesday’s announcement of the new iPad Air continues Apple’s aggressive importation of iPad Pro features into the lower ends of the iPad product line. But it also brings

Apple Watch Series 6 and SE There’s nothing spectacular or game-changing about Apple Watch Series 6, but it’s a perfect example of Apple’s incremental product update strategy . What’s new in Series 6

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. I’m not sure there’s a more emblematic example of the transformation of Apple from its mid-90s blahs to the excitement of the Steve Jobs-Jony Ive era

When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that th

I recently took a drive-through COVID-19 test at the University of North Carolina. Everything was well organized and efficient: I was swabbed for 15 uncomfortable seconds and sent home with two pages

A protest banner with the words “Climate Justice Now” placed in front of the Citgo sign in Kenmore Square, during a game at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 10, 2020. Billie Weiss/Bosto

Liberal champion Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Sunday delivered a stirring defense of Black Lives Matter, characterizing it as a modern and necessary civil rights movement. The full-throated defense of the