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Britain Confronts the Shaky Evidence for Youth Gender Medicine

The Cass report challenges the scientific basis of medical transition for minors. In a world without partisan politics, the Cass report on youth...

12.04.2024 70

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I Hope You All Feel Terrible Now

How the internet—and Stephen Colbert—hounded a princess into revealing her diagnosis For many years, the most-complained-about cover of the...

22.03.2024 9

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The British Right’s Favorite Sex Offender

What does a conservative magazine do when a columnist is convicted of attempted rape? In October 2017, a week after The New York Times published...

20.03.2024 10

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The Worst Argument for Youth Transition

Andrea Long Chu says the unpopular part out loud. The point of a public intellectual is to make wild arguments with maximum conviction. And in this...

19.03.2024 40

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Why Everyone Is a Kate Middleton Truther Now

The Princess of Wales wanted privacy. The public had other ideas. There was a time, not that long ago, when mainstream-news consumers pitied people...

12.03.2024 4

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Is Kara Swisher Tearing Down Tech Billionaires—Or Burnishing Their Legends?

She has long sought to be the best-connected of the tough reporters and the toughest of the insiders. Balancing those goals isn’t always easy....

26.02.2024 9

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The Most Consequential Recent First Lady

Which president’s wife abandoned the script entirely? The most consequential first lady of modern times was Melania Trump. I know, I know. We are...

22.02.2024 10

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Biden’s Age Is Now Unavoidable

Joe Biden looks like he is turning into a statue of Joe Biden. As an outsider observing the U.S. presidential election, I have been wondering for...

09.02.2024 50

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The Theater Director Who Likes to Go Too Far

Milo Rau’s plays are tasteless, anarchic—and thrilling. “I would not say that my art is dark,” Milo Rau tells me, and I burst out laughing....

04.02.2024 8

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The Surprising Persistence of the Monarchy

The Crown is dead, long live the Crown. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize...

11.01.2024 3

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The Crown’s Finale Shows Why the Monarchy Is Eternal

The Netflix drama comes to a close, but the Royal Family remains. I’m going to miss The Crown. At its best, it has been alternately soothing,...

15.12.2023 7

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The Hopeless Spies Who Exemplify Modern Britain

Slow Horses captures a nation beset by institutional failure, political corruption, and hopelessness. “No one enters Slough House by the front...

10.12.2023 10

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The Left Can’t Afford to Go Mad

A second Trump term would require an opposition that focuses on his abuses of power—and seeks converts rather than hunting heretics. The Trump years...

08.12.2023 20

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Taylor Swift Gives Her Fans Another Puzzle to Crack

The pop star’s relationship with an NFL player gives fans a peculiar form of gratification. This Thanksgiving, America is divided: One half knows...

25.11.2023 10

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The Other Ozempic Revolution

Weight-loss drugs affect identities and relationships as much as waistlines. On Labor Day weekend, 35 excited guests arrived at a campground in...

19.11.2023 10

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The Panda Phase of the British Conservatives

Looking at them, you wonder: Do they even want to survive? In the end, Suella Braverman was brought down by some tents. Or, rather, the absence of...

14.11.2023 8

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The Conflict in Gaza Is Polarizing Britain

On a day dedicated to peace, London is consumed by competing symbols. How do you decide who owns a country? At 10:30 this morning in London, a group...

12.11.2023 2

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Conservatism’s Choice: Seriousness or the Sideshow

An unlikely conference in London exposed the two futures of the right. During the 1980s, the area of southeast London known as Canary Wharf was...

08.11.2023 5

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Capitalism Has Plans for Menopause

Feminists made the subject speakable. Now influencers and corporations are moving in. How did you celebrate World Menopause Day, on October 18? I...

30.10.2023 10

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The Progressives Who Flunked the Hamas Test

You can support the Palestinian cause without excusing terrorism. The terror attack on Israel by Hamas has been a divisive—if clarifying—moment...

13.10.2023 100

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Michael Lewis Is Buying What Sam Bankman-Fried Is Selling

In Going Infinite, the star journalist gets close—too close—to the fallen crypto billionaire. Michael Lewis was captivated by Sam Bankman-Fried...

11.10.2023 7

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A Satanic Rebellion

Social justice collides with the Satanic Temple. The last time Lucien Greaves got into this much trouble over a photograph, he had his genitals out....

01.10.2023 4

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Nobody Should Care About a Woman’s ‘Body Count’

Popular internet personalities are peddling repressive, misogynistic ideas to their young male fans. Ever since Elon Musk’s lackeys began fiddling...

16.09.2023 20

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The Other Naomi

A left-wing author finds herself constantly confused with a right-wing conspiracist. In 2019, a mnemonic began to circulate on the internet: “If...

12.09.2023 10

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