'Where Do You Stand?' A Letter From the Lost Generation to the 'Greatest' One
In 1940, an Atlantic author expressed his alarm at growing isolationism in America's colleges… More »
Brian Resnick writes for and produces The Atlantic's National channel.
In 1940, an Atlantic author expressed his alarm at growing isolationism in America's colleges… More »
A new study suggests that educators are wary of critiquing minority students -- and in the process, actually undermining children's self-esteem.… More »
Two years before the Nazi invasion of Poland, an Atlantic author made country-by-country predictions about Germany's eastward expansion.… More »
Seeing growing hostility toward Jews in Europe -- and ignorance of their plight in America -- an Atlantic author makes the case for zionism.… More »
Based on a reading of Mein Kampf, an Atlantic author imagines what Germany might become should Hitler "succeed in gaining control of the German government."… More »
In less than 60 seconds, San Francisco was ruined… More »
Images and stories of the survivors who kept the narrative of the infamous shipwreck alive… More »
Just after 500,000 young people were evacuated from London, an Atlantic correspondent roamed the streets of the city, reporting on the weirdness of a metropolis suddenly missing a generation.… More »
Researchers have discovered a plant-based replacement for ambergris, an expensive perfume ingredient made from aged and weathered sperm whale excrement.… More »
Years before the gas chambers and the death marches, "Dr. X" spent several weeks imprisoned at Sachsenhausen. This is how he described it to Atlantic readers of his time.… More »
Over the course of 15 months, anthropologist Monir Moniruzzaman infiltrated and tracked the illegal organ networks of Bangladesh.… More »
Thirty-nine years ago today, Senator John McCain was released from a Vietnamese prison. He had been held there for five-and-a-half years.… More »
Dueling essays from The Atlantic's October 1939 issue show that in 73 years, some of the discourse around contraception hasn't changed.… More »
Their advice may be comically obvious, but these public service announcements allowed a generation of artists to shine in dark times.… More »
Before airplanes were perfected for reconnaissance, WWI-era armies used man-carrying kites as their eyes in the sky.… More »
Her farm is nearly barren, her husband's health is failing, and each day brings a new onslaught of terrible storms, but in 1935, Catherine Henderson is resolved to stay in the dust bowl.… More »
Before the day that lived in infamy, before the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was just a typical four-year-old, dressed up in a military-inspired kilt, coat, cape, and bow tie.… More »
How the monument was built, and how one obstructionist legislator tried to stop it… More »
Earlier this year, officials in Pinellas County in Florida decided to remove the cavity-fighting chemical from its water supply. They weren't the first, and won't be last. Was it a mistake?… More »
Giant snakes are devastating the Everglade ecosystem. An expert explains how this became a problem, and what, if anything, we can do to stop it.… More »
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