An inquiry into one recent scandal reveals how kids think about sexting—and what parents and police should do about it.
Technology has made cheating on your spouse, or catching a cheater, easier than ever. How digital tools are aiding the unfaithful and the untrusting—and may be mending some broken marriages.
Meet the inventors, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs at the forefront of the flying-robot revolution.
How self-driving vehicles took off
The organizations, technologies, and people behind Google's autonomous vehicles
Are we in a tech bubble? Is Snowden a hero? And what’s the hottest status symbol? In The Atlantic’s first Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 50 executives, innovators, and thinkers answer these questions and more.
The country's intensifying efforts to redraw maritime borders have its neighbors, and the U.S., fearing war. But does the aggression reflect a government growing in power—or one facing a crisis of legitimacy?
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis.
It’s an obvious problem for Democrats—and perhaps an even larger one for Republicans.
The active voice isn’t always the best choice.
Ambition made Jim Koch, the head of Sam Adams, a billionaire. It also opened America to a craft-beer renaissance.
Can Asian American men learn from Lean In?
How childhood influences churchgoing
Michael Caplin's quest to transform the quintessential edge city
How will telemedicine shape the future of patient-doctor relationships?
A new chain of themed restaurants catches on in Spain.
A very short book excerpt
The secret ingredient of Robin Williams’s greatest role: grief
Russian archives reveal that he was no madman, but a very smart and implacably rational ideologue.
The odd life and psyche of the man who invented her
Responses and reverberations
Who is the most underrated politician in history?