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All photos courtesy of the National Gallery, London Isn’t She Good—For a Woman?
How the feminist passion for Artemisia Gentileschi’s life story risks overwhelming her artistic talent
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Crown’s Majestic Untruths
The blockbuster series treads an uneasy line between fact and fiction.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Naked Feminist
What lies behind the arguments over a Mary Wollstonecraft statue?
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Rebecca Sunflower Thomas When Discrimination Targets the Privileged
Meet the feminist aristocrats fighting for the right of daughters to inherit peerages.
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Carolyn Drake / Magnum The Anti-Trump Hangover Is Here
When you’re used to fighting enemies, how do you go back to having mere opponents?
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Frank Augstein / AP The Rare Sight of a Political Reckoning
Britain’s Labour Party has suspended its former leader. Who knew in this partisan age that politicians could hold their own side to account?
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The World Is Trapped in America’s Culture War
America won the internet, and now makes us all speak its language.
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The Atlantic The Joke’s on Us
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously?
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Illustration by Paul Spella; image from PA Images ... In Search of the First Female Sports Superstar
The remarkable career of the Victorian athletic phenom Charlotte Dod—and the legacy that wasn’t
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Mythology of Karen
The meme is so powerful because of the awkward status of white women.
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Susan Meiselas / Magnum The Shadow Pandemic
How do we help domestic-violence victims who stay with their partners?
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Getty / The Atlantic How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact.
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PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy How J. K. Rowling Became Voldemort
The backlash against the Harry Potter creator is a growing pain of her fandom.
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Getty / CSA / The Atlantic Don’t Build Roads, Open Schools
The idea of child care as women’s (unpaid) work holds the issue back in political discussions.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Conservative Case for Liberalizing Divorce
Britain has finally passed a new law allowing for no-fault divorce, all without a culture war.
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The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This
Peddle misinformation. Cry “conspiracy” when no one else reports it. Repeat.
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Getty / The Atlantic Crises Are No Time for Political Unity
The leader of Britain’s Labour Party is showing what you can do when you don’t have a leader’s bully pulpit.
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The Atlantic Why I’ve Never Believed in ‘Believe Women’
The Biden allegations reveal the weakness of the #MeToo movement’s rallying cry.
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Georgian Spring Series by Mark Power/Magnum When Will We Want to Be in a Room Full of Strangers Again?
Theater, an industry full of optimists, is reckoning with a heartbreaking realization.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Has Revealed the Weakness of Strongmen
Women leaders are a symptom of a political system’s success, not necessarily its cause.
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