The Atlantic Magazine - January - February 2023

In this issue

Can a Building Be Too Tall?
The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper.
By Bianca Bosker

Why Is She Like This?
On the ground in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s alternate universe.
By Elaina Plott Calabro

THE LOOMING REVOLT OVER HOMELESSNESS

Liberals know how to solve the problem. Why dont they?

10 mins

I WENT TO TAIWAN TO SAY GOODBYE

To my grandmother, and perhaps. the country whose resilience she shares

4 mins

SEEING EARTH FROM SPACE WILL CHANGE YOU

The question is how.

9 mins

THE EUREKA THEORY OF HISTORY IS WRONG

THE REAL REASON AMERICAN PROGRESS HAS STALLED

10+ mins

Can a Building Be Too Tall?

The rise and rise and rise of the supertall skyscraper

10+ mins

The End of Us

Is the reign of human beings on Earth nearing its end? A disparate group of thinkers says yes-and that we should welcome our demise.

10+ mins

The Prophecy of The Waste Land

One hundred years after the publication of LT. S. Eliot's masterwork, its vision has never been more terrifying.

10+ mins

White Noise Used to Be Satire

What was once mildly absurd is now funny because its true.

10+ mins

Cormac McCarthy Has Never Been Better

His two new novels are the pinnacle of a controversial career.

10+ mins

The Reinvention of the Catholic Church

Scandals have taken a toll, and faith is flagging in Europe and the U.S. But Catholicism isnt on the wane—it’s changing in influential ways.

10 mins

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