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David Strick / Redux The Emotional Miseducation of Tiger Woods
A new HBO documentary zeroes in on the immense psychological toll it took for the legendary golfer to go from prodigy to phenom.
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The Atlantic D.C. Statehood Is More Urgent Than Ever
“The real fraud is that we call ourselves a democracy yet deny the people of our capital political representation.”
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Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum The Atlantic Daily: 9 Recipes That Brought Us Comfort in 2020
Writers and editors share the recipes, habits, and cooking lessons that have helped us make it through the year, one meal at a time.
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David Lee / Netflix Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the Liberating Power of Music
Netflix’s new adaptation of August Wilson’s play understands the singular magic of the blues.
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HBO / Everett The Year of Ambitious TV Watching
In 2020, tackling 121 episodes of a single show was no longer as daunting as it once seemed.
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Charlie Maignan The 16 Best Albums of 2020
A selection of the most illuminating music to come out of a dark year, handpicked by our staffers
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The 15 Best TV Shows of 2020
The year’s most distinct and worthwhile series
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Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post / Getty When Your Hometown Team Gets a New Identity
Black fans of the Washington Football Team are adapting to a new future for their beloved franchise—and reckoning with its past disregard of Native Americans.
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Patrick Zachmann / Magnum The Atlantic Daily: Our Guide to Cooking in Isolation
Cooks and non-cooks alike from around our newsroom share their best tips for navigating this strange Thanksgiving.
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@crayzrah / @trejokes / @_therealnesha_ / TikTok / ... Forget SNL. The Best Election Satire Is on TikTok.
The app’s young creators are outshining mainstream political comedy—and tapping into a longer tradition of Black American humor.
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Niko Tavernise / HBO On TV, Having Wealth Means You Get to Suffer Beautifully
Like other stories about terrible rich people, HBO’s glitzy murder mystery The Undoing is entranced by a world it finds immoral.
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Will Heath / NBC SNL Takes a Much-Needed Break From Politics
Issa Rae’s sunny demeanor enlivened last night’s episode and ushered in a handful of sketches that diverged from the show’s standard fare.
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Jorge Alvarino / AMC Would a Soul Mate Fix Your Anxiety Right Now?
Probably not—but a new AMC show about the false promise of true love makes for strangely comforting viewing in pandemic times.
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Nigel Crane / Redfern The Polarizing Emo Record That Captured Teenage Angst
Oh, well imagine: Panic! at the Disco’s debut album is 15 years old, and young listeners still love it.
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HBO The Dangerous Naïveté of Coastal Elites
HBO’s tepid satire about the provincialism of U.S. liberals doesn’t play well in a year as catastrophic as 2020.
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Starz The Southern-Gothic Stripper Drama That TV Deserves
Give into the lush, neo-noir pleasures of the new Starz show P-Valley.
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Deawnne Buckmire / Instagram / The Atlantic What Incarcerated Rappers Can Teach America
This year’s national reckoning over policing means that more people could stand to seriously listen to the music of young artists who have firsthand experience with the system.
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Eli Joshua Ade / HBO What Lovecraft Country Gets Wrong About Racial Horror
The fantastical HBO series imagines white supremacists as literal monsters but fails to make its Black heroes as compelling.
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Natasha Trethewey / Katie Martin / The Atlantic How Poetry Can Guide Us Through Trauma
A former U.S. poet laureate’s new memoir reflects on the power of storytelling to help us grieve—and offers lessons for surviving the cataclysms of the present.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Netflix’s ‘Most Popular’ List Is a Wasteland
The ranking reveals a sad reality: People are really bored right now, and that leaves a lot of room for mediocre content to flourish.
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