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US President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 29, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump "comfortable" with Yemen leaks

Alex Galbraith

The president said that "no classified information" was shared in a compromised group chat between admin officials

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz (R) and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff attend an interview after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Waltz denial reveals Yemen leak strategy

Alex Galbraith

Waltz's combative answer showed how Trump figures plan to ride out this scandal: denying it ever happened

Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting with Republican Senators at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2024. (Allison Robbert for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Atlantic editor may share Yemen texts

Alex Galbraith

Jeffrey Goldberg told the Bulwark he was working out a plan to vet and share the material

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe appear during a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Democrats pounce on Signal chat scandal

Nicholas Liu

At a hearing Tuesday, Senate Democrats pressed Trump officials to explain why they were texting about war plans

Anamaria Vartolomei as Maria Schneider and Matt Dillon as Marlon Brando in "Being Maria" (Courtesy of Kino Lorber )

Matt Dillon steps into Brando’s shoes

Gary M. Kramer

Dillon discusses Brando’s influence, Maria Schneider’s trauma and the role of intimacy coordinators in filmmaking

A singed message written by director Bong Joon-ho is displayed (L) as pizza restaurant owner Eom Hang-ki, 65, works in her restaurant Sky Pizza in Seoul, the inspiration for "Pizza Generation" in the film "Parasite." (ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Bong Joon-ho makes a meal out of movies

Coleman Spilde

The filmmaker is revered for his incisive takedowns of the elite, but food is the fuel for his most shocking ideas

Tanghulu (Getty Images / Plan Shooting 2 / Imazins)

How to safely make tanghulu at home

Joy Saha

The famed Chinese street food is coated in candied sugar, which can be tricky to prepare and handle

(Getty/PeopleImages)

The joy of eating raw vegetables

Michael La Corte

Here's why — and how — you should be eating more crudités

U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, listen to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"It happens": GOP shrugs off Yemen leak

Nicholas Liu

Republican lawmakers are trying to blame the media for the Trump administration's war-planning group chat

In this handout photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the New York City Fugitive Operations Team conducted targeted enforcement operations resulting in the arrest of a Dominican national on January 28, 2025 in New York City. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images)

Trump claims the right to deport anyone

Russell Payne

Judge Patricia Millett said the Trump administration is claiming the right to unilaterally expel anyone it wants

Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense a luncheon following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

War planning by emoji

Lucian K. Truscott IV

The people supposedly in charge of our national security celebrated the attacks on the Houthis with memes

President Donald Trump winks during a meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the Oval Office of the White House on October 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. The two leaders will reportedly discuss 5G wireless technology and European and Arctic security during bilateral meetings and later hold a joint news conference in the East Room. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's "shock therapy" for America

Chauncey DeVega

If happiness is connected to larger anti-democratic trends, then America's future is dire

Abortion rights activists react to the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

"After Dobbs": Why abortion rates are up

Amanda Marcotte

"They will never stop abortion": "After Dobbs" chronicles "the extraordinary efforts" to help women get healthcare

Neuronal network, conceptual illustration. (CHRISTOPH BURGSTEDT/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images)

Are concept neurons what make us human?

Carlyn Zwarenstein

Research suggests our intelligence may arise from specialized brain cells only found in humans

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth walks through the Russell Senate Office building on Capitol Hill on December 3, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Hegseth denies Yemen leaks

Alex Galbraith

The defense secretary called the head honcho of The Atlantic a "highly discredited so-called journalist"

(L-R) Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham accept the Documentary Feature Film award "No Other Land" onstage during the 97th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 02, 2025, in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Director attacked in West Bank: report

Alex Galbraith

Hamdan Ballal was reportedly beaten by Israeli settlers in an attack in Masafer Yatta on Monday

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump admin leaked Yemen war plans

Alex Galbraith

Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a group chat where Pete Hegseth, JD Vance and others discussed attacks on Houthis

A police car patrols a road in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 9, 2025. (ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Greenland builds up police presence

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Police have been deployed ahead of the second lady's visit later this week

Parker Posey in "The White Lotus" (Courtesy of HBO)

The idle rich will be the death of us

Melanie McFarland

Wealthy fools are a feature of "The White Lotus," but this family may be the apotheosis of society's ruin

Sodas (Getty Images / ContemporAd)

The new (prebiotic) soda wars

Ashlie D. Stevens

Prebiotic sodas take center stage in the battle for health

L-R: Anisa Harris as Teen Robin, Courtney Eaton as Teen Lottie, Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna, Samantha Hanratty as Teen Misty and Vanessa Prasad as Teen Gen in "Yellowjackets" (Kailey Schwerman/Paramount+ with Showtime)

Rescue is a shame on "Yellowjackets"

Kelly McClure

With their savagery exposed, the teens may soon be safe from the woods, but will never be saved from themselves

George W. Bush and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump brings back Bush's black sites

Heather Digby Parton

Trump's rationale for dredging up wartime powers to render people to a foreign prison is rather familiar

A student holds up a sign against banning CRT as members of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Board meet in Placentia, California, on March 23, 2022. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

MAGA is the pushback to public education

Chauncey DeVega

Dr. Derek Black: "We as a society will not find our educational promised land anywhere but in our public schools"

Carbon, Earth, Planet (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

We're talking about carbon all wrong

Kate Yoder - Grist

Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life

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