This article was updated at 9:17 a.m. ET on August 7, 2024 In the long, sweaty line for Vice President Kamala Harris’s Philadelphia rally yesterday, people said they were happy she’d chosen Tim Walsh as her running mate. They were glad about Tim Went

Yesterday, Kamala Harris announced that her running mate would be Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota. Walz was a dark-horse pick among the top contenders, but has a clear appeal to the Harris campaign. He is a 60-year-old former educator and veteran

Even if you like what you do for a living most days, actually working can be tough. In pursuit of hazy notions of success, many of us spend the prime of our lives jumping through hoops that other people tell us to jump through, or toiling toward a pr

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Love Island USA, the most-streamed reality show in the country, is not difficult to understand. It’s a dating competition where an initial group of 10 or so singles arrive on an idyllic island and are split up into couples. Before long, new “bombshel

Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have now selected vice-presidential nominees who hail from the Midwest, have humble backgrounds, and bear the expectation of appealing to white working-class voters. But the choices also serve as wagers on two very

The Democratic Party will gather in Chicago this month like a trauma victim irresistibly drawn back to the original scene of horror, returning decades after the 1968 convention to overcome its spell or else succumb to it. Let’s first consider the way

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The Democratic ticket has now taken shape, and Donal

In the realm of presidential politics, progressives have become accustomed to disappointment. Joe Biden wasn’t their first (or second) choice in 2020. Nor, for that matter, was Kamala Harris. And Democratic nominees typically pick moderates for their

For many Americans, the defining image of the 2024 Olympic Games will have been Simone Biles’s broad smile, suffused with pride, relief, the joy of success, and a touch of I-told-you-so. She flashed that smile as her team reclaimed gold, as she earne

Updated on August 6 at 10:43 a.m. ET Tim Walz will be Kamala Harris’s running mate, she announced today. The Minnesota governor’s selection is a somewhat surprising end to a whirlwind process for choosing the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. T

Israeli friends report an eerie calm: The hospitals are preparing for mass casualties, while citizens go about their more or less normal lives—and in the evening drag into place the steel plates that shut the windows to their safe rooms. For the resi

In the summer of 2020, after a tough year during which my son struggled to fit in at school and got diagnosed with several learning disabilities, I decided he needed a break. So I sent him to camp. Except, unlike most parents, I went with him. I need

A federal judge has declared Google a monopolist. In a 277-page decision released yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta concluded that the online-search company abused its dominance and suffocated competitors—in part by paying Apple and

In today’s United States, at least in liberal and leftist circles, certain aspects of identity are understood to be a matter of choice—as well as a battleground for freedom. I don’t live in America anymore, but over the course of the decade I spent t

We stood on the covered balcony, and behind us, the rain poured down in sheets, cascading from the roof of a two‑story apartment complex in a dodgy part of Dallas. Daryl Parker, a private detective, raised his hand to knock, then noticed I was standi

If you’re someone who wants to have kids, there seems to be one alarming message screaming at you from every direction: Pregnancy is getting more dangerous. From 1999 to 2019, researchers found that maternal-mortality deaths in America more than doub

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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will be the Democratic n

You can’t say Israel wasn’t warned. On June 19, 1967, a week after the Six-Day War, the Israeli cabinet met to discuss the future of the territories that Israel had just occupied. One proposal was to permanently keep the West Bank and give its Palest

David Fox has plenty of savings. He earns hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Recently, he allocated $60,000 to buying a new car—but when he arrived at the dealership, he could bring himself to spend only $30,000 on a used model. Despite maki

Among the 16 prisoners released in the swap with Russia last week was a little-known artist and musician named Sasha Skochilenko. She was serving a seven-year sentence for a bit of ingenious guerrilla art. In March 2022, a month after Vladimir Putin’

In the past 24 hours, Japanese stocks suffered their worst collapse since the 1987 crash, other Asian markets cratered, tech stocks plummeted, the Dow plunged, and several additional global markets suffered from various synonyms for “fell a lot.” Wha

The U.S. military commissions in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were set up in 2001, and after 23 years they are the most elaborate and expensive exhibition of sadomasochism in legal history. They were designed to try terror suspects, but to date the commissi

During his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, in March 2017, Neil Gorsuch laid out his views on what makes for a “good” judge. “My personal views,” he said, “belong over here,” and he gestured to his right. “I leave those at home.” But of course he

Children—and the millions of private decisions to have or not have them—are in the news these days, for regrettable reasons. Ohio Senator J. D. Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, has made a habit of excoriating progressives who don’t

Iran lobbed hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel in April in the hope of changing the rules of engagement: Israel had struck an Iranian consulate in Damascus, and Tehran sought to deter any further such direct actions against its interests. Thos

Back in 2016, when Donald Trump was first performing open-brain surgery on the American psyche, it became common to say that politics had become the new national entertainment. Cable news was a reality show, rallies were WWE matches, and the #Resista

In the early 1960s, when my parents were in high school, they received free sampler packs of cigarettes on their cafeteria trays. To the cigarette companies, it made sense: Where better to find new customers than at schools, whose students, being chi