Caroline Kitchener
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fStop Images - Twins / Getty Why People Watch Sex They’d Never Have
Niche genres such as hentai have become the Cronut of porn.
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Mendelsund / Munday Behind the Scenes with Kate Julian
The author of the “Sex Recession” sits down with The Masthead.
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China Stringer Network/Reuters Reporting on China’s Cone of Silence
Xinjiang is one of the world’s biggest human-rights stories—and one of the hardest for reporters to cover.
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Sean Justice / Getty Images What’s Causing the Sex Recession?
Young people are having less sex. The big question is, why?
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Women’s Anger Still Isn’t Taken Seriously
Rebecca Traister talks about her new book, Good and Mad.
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Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP / Getty Images The Murky Path Forward for U.S. Olympic Gymnastics
Officials are trying a “nuclear option” to fix the culture of sexual assault within the elite sport. But can it actually work?
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Searching for the Light Photography / Getty The Bridesmaids Are Multiplying
Today the role is almost entirely symbolic—but it’s only getting more popular.
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Jacqueline Roggenbrodt / AP Which Came First, the Divisions or the Tribes?
Researchers provide a crash course in the study of tribalism. Plus, a reading list of the best writing on the subject.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Early Signs of a Youth Wave
Young-adult turnout surged by 188 percent in early voting compared with 2014.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Brace for the Midterms
Two Atlantic reporters on the races they’re watching.
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Karen Yuan / The Atlantic Women’s Anger Still Isn’t Taken Seriously
Rebecca Traister talks about her new book, Good and Mad.
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Jon Super / AP The Joy of Print
A Masthead-exclusive video takes you inside the printing plant that creates The Atlantic magazine.
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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.
