Tariffs are not going to make other countries respect the United States. But they can make them move on without it.

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Aug. 12, 2026 - A total solar eclipse will be visible in Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia and a small area of Portugal. A ...

The United States under the Trump Administration may end up being a lonely superpower without reliable friends, followers or ...

President Donald Trump announced tariffs on global trade partners during a White House Rose Garden event dubbed "Make America ...

More recently, Rubio said South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, was no longer welcome in the country. This came after Rasool said that Trump and his Make America Great ...

At issue is whether a state, in this case, South Carolina, can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from its state Medicaid program, even though Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

Illustration by The Atlantic ... dominance over—even America’s closest international partners is putting the economy at risk, and not just in tourist areas in South Florida and coastal ...

The Polar Vortex in the upper atmosphere has disintegrated after the intense warming of the stratosphere in mid-March.

The details of the tariffs are still unclear, which is one reason the markets are so on edge. Political leaders are on edge ...

Spokeo examined State Symbols USA and other resources to explore why state seals are significant and how they help us ...