Helen Lewis
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Getty Why I’ll Keep Saying ‘Pregnant Women’
Being inclusive is important. But it’s not everything.
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Mathieu Bitton / Netflix Dave Chappelle’s Rorschach Test
The comedian’s latest special blurs the line between victim and bully.
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Getty; Paul Spella / The Atlantic What Happened When Facebook Became Boomerbook
Leaked documents reveal that a company that was once rebellious and optimistic is now bloated, regretful, and uncool.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Cult of Virginity Just Won’t Let Go
The battles over “virginity testing” and “virginity-restoration surgery” reveal the persistence of dangerous pseudoscience.
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Jeff Kravitz / Theo Wargo / Jamie McCarthy … The Man Loves the Extra Publicity
The Met Gala is where people go to make empty statements. No one at the event is rebelling against the power structure.
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Illustration by Vartika Sharma; Source: Alberto Rizzo / … The Problem With Being Cool About Sex
Half a century after the sexual revolution, a new generation of feminists understands that we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.
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Photograph by Yasin Akgul / AFP / Getty I’ve Hit My Climate Tipping Point
Understanding global warming intellectually is not the same as feeling its presence in your daily life—or seeing photos of a 50-foot wall of fire.
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Rolf Richardson / Alamy ; Adam Maida / … History Was Never Subject to Democratic Control
Elite merchants put up a statue of a British slave trader. A band of protesters toppled it. Who decides what happens now?
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Ernst Haas / Getty ‘The Revelation Was That I Was the Problem’
A doctor nagged his twin brother to lose weight—but family arguments about food can be destructive.
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Getty ; Adam Maida / The Atlantic This Will End With President Tucker Carlson
The British experience should be a warning: Don’t let journalists go into politics.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Superstars of Tourette’s TikTok
How disability influencers are using TikTok to fight stigma
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Getty; The Atlantic Fox News Gets a British Accent
The U.K.’s newest television channel bets that American–style grievance politics will succeed in a much stuffier media market.
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Getty / The Atlantic On Substack, You Can Never Go Too Far
The popular newsletter service is changing the media business—and selling soap operas to people who think they’re above soap operas.
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Erlon Silva / Getty / The Atlantic The Problem Is Facebook
Facebook’s “Supreme Court” might have upheld Donald Trump’s suspension, but that doesn’t make it a real court.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Party Whose Success Is a Problem
The Scottish National Party has no viable opposition—so it has created one from within.
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Derek Hudson / Getty Prince Philip, a Man of His Time
The life of the Queen’s husband, who has died at 99, reflects the turbulence of the last century.
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Kristian Buus / In Pictures / Getty It’s Time to Lift the Female Lockdown
A woman’s brutal murder in London prompts a debate about fear and freedom.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Identity Hoaxers
What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?
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Hulton Archive / The LIFE Picture Collection / … The Pandemic Has Given Women a New Kind of Rage
As Gloria Steinem said, “The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.”
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Anwar Hussein / Getty / The Atlantic Meghan and Harry Go to War
The Oprah interview proved that the duchess won’t be silenced.
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