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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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Vanessa Saba; Rene Johnston; Chris Williamson; Getty What Happened to Jordan Peterson?
Adored guru and reviled provocateur, he dropped out of sight. Now the irresistible ordeal of modern cultural celebrity has brought him back.
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Photograph by Sasha Arutyunova Where Are the Iconic COVID-19 Images?
The scarcity of memorable pandemic photographs reveals something about this crisis.
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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.
