"The wine was produced from a hybrid grape, mixing European and native stock; popularized by immigrants, Americanizing an ancient ritual; imbued with nostalgia, as their children assimilated; and embraced by the general public, as ethnic foodways fused.”

Once upon a time—of all the good days of the year, on Christmas Eve—President Donald Trump sat at Mar-a-Lago, counting his grievances.

In 1955, a child accidentally transposed two digits, calling CONAD instead of the Sears Santa hotline. "There may be a guy named Santa Claus at the North Pole," said the colonel who answered the phone, "but he’s not the one I worry about coming from that direction."

A recent New York Times story set up a puzzle: How could white nationalism flourish in an ordinary American city? The trouble is, that's precisely where it's long flourished: https://www.theatlantic.com/…/the-banality-of-white…/546749/

These days, you're just as likely to meet a turkey in a backyard as on your Thanksgiving plate. There's a reason for that:

Looking back at the election and the press, one year later:

160 years ago, The Atlantic launched as the magazine of the American Idea. Is there still an American Idea today?

That Columbus Day - which began as a controversial celebration of American pluralism - is now attacked as too narrow, rather than too broad, is the ultimate evidence of its success:

The latest Radio Atlantic - a pleasure to chat with Mindy Finn

Something a little different - an episode of our podcast:

Here's what I learned from Charlottesville: https://www.theatlantic.com/…/08/take-the-statues-d…/536727/

President Trump says the Boy Scouts told him his was the greatest speech they'd ever heard. So I asked the Boy Scouts if someone had made a call like that to the White House.

I don't think partisan politics has any place in Scouting.