Man of Steel's Lois Lane Is a 'Modern' Heroine—Just Like the Lois Lanes Before
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Reading the scholarly literature on how changing ideas about women have affected the leading ladies of Superman More »
Yes, they were the prohibitive favorites, but both overcame serious obstacles—like history, health issues, and Novak Djokovic—to claim their victories. More »
Sure, only one player made it past the Round of 16—but this tournament has seen some of the the most promising performances by American women in years. More »
But since then, a shift in critical expectations transformed 2003's charming deep-sea adventure tale from "slightly subpar Pixar" into a "modern classic." More »
Nila Wahdati, the morally complicated writer in Khaled Hosseini's latest novel, represents a rich, controversial tradition of women's poetry in Afghanistan and the surrounding region. More »
Featuring Superman, clumsy cops, monsters of all statures, and Oprah More »
In honor of the beloved reality show's 10th birthday, a conversation with Rhonda Loverude, who wrote her doctoral dissertation on hegemonic heterosexuality in ANTM More »
Paige Padilla, 17, explains what's really going on with that controversial "thinspo" hashtag, and why eliminating pro-eating-disorder content online might be harder than it seems. More »
Ke$ha's new MTV documentary My Crazy Beautiful Life shows its subject doing something Beyoncé's video autobiography Life Is but a Dream never did: failing. More »
Why does the best-selling humorist's new book include six monologues for teen speakers? Because Sedaris moonlights as a hero in the world of competitive high-school forensics. More »
Caroline Shaw's Partita for 8 Voices sounds like music and then some. More »
The former Prime Minister's statements about gender illustrate her complicated feminist legacy. More »
Reading the scholarly literature on the Watergate-era backlash against advertising More »
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A brief history of color use in LGBT-rights campaigns More »
Women in sports used to be evaluated by their personality or appearance, not their athleticism. This is changing, finally. More »
In 2000, the Nigerian author told The Atlantic he wished to inspire voiceless peoples to share their own histories and create a global "balance of stories." More »
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A short work of fiction from the archive provides some tongue-in-cheek insights into the selection of the Catholic Church's highest officer. More »
