Sarah Bilston is a professor and the chair of the English department at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Her most recent book is The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession.

Plant hunting may conjure up images of bold Victorian explorers, intrepid grail seekers, and storied men of science—Joseph ...

“Swallow your pride and make the first move,” one reader says. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that ...

The framers of the Constitution were trying to prevent exactly this sort of corruption.

Altman was theoretically there to give one of the co-anchors, Colin Jost, some bad news about his tax returns. Instead, she ...

The legacy of one’s parents can feel like a prophecy, Faith notes. But we’re not all doomed to repeat our parents’ mistakes, ...

Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on movies seized upon the American film industry’s existential panic.

A shaman is a specialist who, through non-ordinary states, engages with unseen realities and provides services like healing ...

This week, Donald Trump returned from the first major foreign trip of his second term. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined last night to discuss what the president’s visit to the ...

Why are there so many “alternative devices” all of a sudden? On a recent commute to work, I texted my distant family about ...

A new cadre of officials might deal in evidence more than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does, but they still question the worth of ...

Jill Leovy, a former police reporter, is the author of Ghettoside and a senior fellow at the University of Southern California Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.