Helen Lewis
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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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Celina Pereira You Should Politicize the Coronavirus
The pandemic raises unavoidable and legitimate political questions. We should be suspicious of any attempt to dismiss them.
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Martina Badini / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Healing the Rift With Britain’s Jews
The U.K. Labour Party’s new leader wants to disown Jeremy Corbyn’s toxic legacy.
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Calum Heath What Happens When a Joke Is Followed by Silence
Usually, that’s bad. The pandemic makes it normal.
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Amy Sussman / Getty How Panic-Buying Revealed the Problem With the Modern World
The pandemic has shown how just-in-time systems are also fragile.
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Max Mumby / Getty / The Atlantic A Royal Reality Check
The heir to the British throne getting the coronavirus will make this outbreak seem real to many people.
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FPG / Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The ... The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism
Pandemics affect men and women differently.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The ‘Blitz Spirit’ Won’t Protect Britain From the Coronavirus
As the government inevitably restricts Britons’ lives, the country must reject the voices arguing that it is overreacting.
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Leftover Women Film What It’s Like to Be a Leftover Woman
From China’s “leftover women” to Israel’s “baby machines,” society still dictates female lives.
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Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis / Getty Feminism’s Purity Wars
Why has Erin Pizzey, once a pioneer of the women’s movement, been written out of its history?
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Lara Solanki / Netflix Reality Shows Don’t Have to Be Cruel
Netflix’s Next in Fashion demonstrates that niceness among contestants can be really fun to watch.
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In Pictures / Corbis / Getty In Britain, Even Jails Have a Class System
How a filmmaker, convicted of fraud, discovered the “White Collar Club.”
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Why Extremists Need Therapy
Britain’s prisons struggle to deradicalize alienated young men. Those failures have wider lessons.
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Toby Melville / Reuters Britain Is Fraying. Why Did Boris Johnson Get Reelected?
The country’s departure from the European Union can no longer camouflage its deep problems.
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KGC-09 / STAR MAX / IPx 2019 via ... Meghan, Kate, and the Architecture of Misogyny
Policing correct female behavior keeps all women in their place.
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Derek Brumby / AlexRoz / shutterstock / The ... The Twitter Electorate Isn’t the Real Electorate
Social media is distorting our sense of mainstream opinion.
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Andrew Milligan / WPA Pool / Getty Images Harry and Meghan Won’t Play the Game
Their decision to “step back” from the royal family reflects their distaste for the British press.
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