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Helen LewisThe Atlantic |
Why did the British prime minister just call a surprise election? Please read this as classic British understatement: Today was not, on the face of...
The Cass report challenges the scientific basis of medical transition for minors. In a world without partisan politics, the Cass report on youth...
How the internet—and Stephen Colbert—hounded a princess into revealing her diagnosis For many years, the most-complained-about cover of the...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
Slow Horses captures a nation beset by institutional failure, political corruption, and hopelessness. “No one enters Slough House by the front...
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...
The pop star’s relationship with an NFL player gives fans a peculiar form of gratification. This Thanksgiving, America is divided: One half knows...
Weight-loss drugs affect identities and relationships as much as waistlines. On Labor Day weekend, 35 excited guests arrived at a campground in...
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...
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...
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...
Feminists made the subject speakable. Now influencers and corporations are moving in. How did you celebrate World Menopause Day, on October 18? I...
You can support the Palestinian cause without excusing terrorism. The terror attack on Israel by Hamas has been a divisive—if clarifying—moment...
In Going Infinite, the star journalist gets close—too close—to the fallen crypto billionaire. Michael Lewis was captivated by Sam Bankman-Fried...
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....
Popular internet personalities are peddling repressive, misogynistic ideas to their young male fans. Ever since Elon Musk’s lackeys began fiddling...
A left-wing author finds herself constantly confused with a right-wing conspiracist. In 2019, a mnemonic began to circulate on the internet: “If...