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The Only Thing the Houthis Have Done Successfully

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
Yesterday in Riyadh, a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis struck King Khalid International Airport, killed 13 people, and wounded hundreds more. Attacks in the previous week had killed four others ... Escalation, in other words, is assured ... fighting ... .
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How Not to Fix Immigration

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
What would the U.S. immigration system look like if it were a machine, made of wheels and gears, controlled by belts and joints? In Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book, Racist by Design. Two Centuries of U.S ... It always has been and it still is.” ... [Read ... .
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What Hasan Piker Believes

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
About a year and a half ago, Hasan Piker, the left-wing activist and streamer, was hailed as the Democratic Party’s Joe Rogan—an influencer who can reach young men ... Vanity Fair named Piker one of the 50 most influential people in America ... .
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Some Revised Scenes From The Social Network

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to The Social Network, is now in theaters. I, for one, think that making a whole new movie is not the best way to tell the continuing story of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta ... Sean Parker, from Napster ... * ... * ... * ... Sure ... *.
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The Never-Spenders

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
When my father died, more than 20 years ago, he left my mother with a paid-off Philadelphia apartment, a modest pension, Social Security, and $1.6 million in retirement and brokerage accounts. My mother lived well, but frugally ... She had $1.7 million ... .
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My Year of Vibe Coding

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
My family and I enjoy the occasional meal of delicious slow-cooked meat, but every time we visit a barbecue joint, we can’t remember whether we like the beans and slaw on offer. Some beans are sweet; others are spicy ... But that was a ridiculous idea ... .
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The People Who Outsource Emotional Labor to AI

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
One day not long ago, Franky, a 40-something woman who lives in the mid-Atlantic region, got an infuriating text message from her aunt. It was just the latest truth-stretching missive she had sent, and Franky’s impulse was to write back ... [Read ... S ... [Read.
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Make Big Brother Bad for Big Business

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
Garrett Langley, the founder and CEO of Flock Safety, is an unlikely spokesperson for the dangers of the surveillance industry. His company says it has deployed more than 120,000 roadside cameras across 49 states ... It may even increase ... .
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear

The Atlantic 12 Oct 2026
In the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has dropped all pretense, torched a couple decades of American policy, and undermined 18 months of his own diplomacy ... He has lied repeatedly ... If Trump knows this, then he does not care. [David Frum ... The U.S ... Also ... [Read ... .
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Six of the Best First Lines in Modern Literature

The Atlantic 11 Oct 2026
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 ... “Sth, I know that woman.” ... *** ... *** ... *** ... *** ... *** ... Source ... .
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Texas Is Destroying Its Own Universities

The Atlantic 11 Oct 2026
Sara Spurgeon, an English professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, has been teaching literature for 20 years ... At Texas Tech, medical students no longer learn about racial disparities in medical care ... [Adam Kirsch ... But the result will be the same ... .
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The Influencer Who Wants Democrats to Fight Dirty

The Atlantic 11 Oct 2026
Among the many areas of American life democratized by the internet, few have been more transformed than political commentary ... But lowering the barrier to entry has also had its downsides, mainly in the rise of political influencers ... [Read ... [Read ... Graham.
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Do Human Beings Have Souls?

The Atlantic 11 Oct 2026
Subscribe here. Apple Podcasts . Spotify . YouTube. The majority of Americans believe that every human being has an immaterial soul, and they tend to base their sense of human dignity and equality on this belief ... David Brooks ... Yet here’s the funny thing ... .
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Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

The Atlantic 11 Oct 2026
Because literary journals tend to have small circulations, few readers are likely to have come across “The Whistleblower,” a short story by the Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza ... “Not broken, just learning how to live differently ... [Read ... .
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SNL Found the Dark Side of the Man Cave

The Atlantic 11 Oct 2026
Even if you don’t know much country music, you likely know how much the genre loves the trope of the weepy father at his daughter’s wedding ... Instead, he was thinking about “all the cool shit I can put in her room.” ... a Ms ... [Read ... .
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