The Sudden Fall of Sam Altman
What it means that the world’s most powerful AI executive is out of a job
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TIFF A Must-See Comedy About Miserable People Looking for Love
Fallen Leaves, which follows two people trying to survive the modern world, is one of the year’s best films.
Jeff Haynes / Reuters / Redux Don’t Cry for Jim Harbaugh
Being punished for an alleged cheating scandal doesn’t make you a persecuted underdog.
Alexandra Arnold The Director Tackling the Dark Side of Millennial Desire
With Promising Young Woman and now Saltburn, Emerald Fennell is turning recent history into gleaming poisoned fantasies.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty Hospitals Have Gotten Too Nice
Medical centers are offering fancy food and rebranding health as a “journey.” How about helping us feel better instead?
Illustration by Jan Buchczik Why You Maybe Shouldn’t Write a Memoir
Talking about ourselves too much hurts our happiness—and can signal deeper problems.
Murray Close / Lionsgate What the Hunger Games Movies Always Understood
The series succeeded not because it had a clear political philosophy, but because it understood the power of entertainment above all.
Illustration by Ben Hickey for The Atlantic What the Gig Economy Does to a Human
In an age of precarious labor, not every life amounts to a satisfying story.
Illustration by Matt Williams The Men Who Started the War
John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?
The Daily Responsibility of Democracy
Plus: The U.S. government UFO cover-up is real—but it’s not what you think.
The Mobster Who Bought His Son a Hockey Team
A tale of goons, no-show jobs, and a legendary minor-league franchise that helped land its owner in prison
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