Caroline Kitchener
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Bob Schutz / AP The Trouble With Tribalism
Identity politics divide America, but the idea of warring tribes is too simple.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Images Reading While Angry
Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad is our October book-club pick; C. J. Chivers’ “War Without End” is the winner of our search for the next must-read piece of journalism.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP What Survivors Heard in Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony
Caitlin Flanagan and others who have experienced sexual assault share their reflections.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters For the Third Autumn in a Row, a National Reckoning With Sexual Assault
This year, the conversation began with a Supreme Court nominee. Last year, it was a Hollywood producer. The year before that, the man who would become president.
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Bettmann / AP Wanted: The One August Story Everyone Should Read
Presenting the four semi-finalists for this month’s’ Longreads Bracket.
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Todd McInturf / The Detroit News / Jake ... Michigan State’s Untouchable Board of Trustees
Members of the board have been accused of covering up Larry Nassar’s abuse, and yet they’ve somehow emerged from the scandal unscathed.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Will the Kavanaugh Hearings Propel Women to Congress?
“When women’s political fortunes are dependent on the political environment … ”
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Reed Saxon / Reuters Why Are American Colleges So Ridiculously Expensive?
The Masthead investigates.
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Gregory Shamus / Getty The Moral Catastrophe at Michigan State
A new lawsuit accuses a current MSU trustee of helping the university conceal Larry Nassar’s abuses starting in 1992. And this is just one of the institution’s many recent scandals.
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Hulton Deutsch / Getty Images Found: The One Article You Should Read Right Now
The winner of the Masthead Longreads Bracket is …
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s New College Sexual-Assault Policy
How a hypothetical accusation could actually play out in practice, if the Education Department’s proposed rules become law
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Tim Chong / Reuters Wanted: The One Story Everyone Should Read
The Masthead is starting a competition to find this summer’s best longread.
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Jim Wells / AP The Press vs. the President
A brief history of the struggles between journalists and the presidents they cover
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters How the Song of the Summer Is Changing
2018’s race for the song of the summer makes clear just how profoundly the center of popular music has shifted.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Let’s Debate Universal Basic Income in the U.S.
What’s your stance on the government giving people money?
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Heribert Proepper / AP What We’re Reading This Summer
Educated by Tara Westover and The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
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Richard Vogel / AP The Case Against Abolishing ICE
Fixing the agency only requires going back a few years in its history.
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Shutterstock Paid Leave From Work Can Help Domestic-Violence Victims Leave Abusers
Sixty percent of victims lost their jobs as a direct result of their abuse.
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Darren Whiteside / Reuters How Autocrats Are Gaining the Upper Hand
A guide to the democratic recession
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Caroline Kitchener / The Atlantic When Catholic Priests Dissented
Fifty years ago, a group of priests decided to fight for birth control.
