Kevin Townsend
A Supreme Court Impeachment Fight That’s Already Under Way
A decade ago, West Virginia foreshadowed the influence that money and politics have come to have on state judiciaries. Now it may warn of a worrying new trend.
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SpaceX / Getty Our Strange New Era of Space Travel
Humans last set foot on the moon 50 years ago. Now we’re going back, but the way we explore space has gone through some big changes.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Republican Party Is in a Strange Place
“Republicans don’t have a Trump problem. They have a voter problem.”
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Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty This COVID Winter Will Be Different
But will it be better?
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John Moore/Getty What’s at Stake for Election Workers
Staff writers Mark Leibovich and Tim Alberta discuss the state of America’s electoral system ahead of the 2022 midterms.
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Universal / Everett; The Atlantic The Review: Knocked Up
Sophie Gilbert, Megan Garber, and Hannah Giorgis discuss Hollywood and the way it depicts abortion (or doesn’t).
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Warrick Page / HBO / Charlie Le Maignan … The Frenetic Basketball Nostalgia of Winning Time
Three basketball-loving writers discuss the first season of HBO’s controversial series about the 1980s Lakers.
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Atsushi Nishijima / Apple TV+ / Charlie Le … Why the Puzzle-Box Sci-Fi of Severance Works
Where Lost and Westworld spun out, the Apple TV+ show’s contained world succeeds.
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Aidan Monaghan / Focus Features; Charlie Le Maignan … The Northman’s Surprising Twist on Male Heroism
How the brutal Viking blockbuster uses a millennia-old tale to undermine the toxic masculinity of myth.
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David Bornfriend / A24; Charlie Le Maignan / … Everything Everywhere All at Once Is Multiverse Storytelling at Its Best
How the film turns a comic-book trope into an unpretentiously profound message
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Pixar / Disney / Charlie Le Maignan / … The Post-villain Era of Animation
Today’s Disney movies aren’t like the ones you grew up with. That isn’t a bad thing.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters; Charlie Le Maignan / … Pop Music’s Nostalgia Obsession
Why do older sounds seem to dominate music lately?
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Beth Dubber / Hulu; Charlie Le Maignan / … Why The Dropout Succeeds Where Other Scammer Shows Fall Short
It’s all too easy to forget the victims and glamorize the grifter.
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Niko Tavernise / 20th Century Fox / Charlie … West Side Story Needed an Update
The original is “a masterpiece … but it’s also a bit of a tough watch today.”
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Warner Bros. / Charlie Le Maignan / The … Why Robert Pattinson’s Grim Batman Is Cause for Optimism
By bringing the character back to his noir-detective origins, The Batman shows that comic-book movies can contain multitudes.
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Janus; The Atlantic A Film That Finally Captures Murakami’s Writing
Drive My Car is a rare adaptation of the Japanese novelist’s work that brings his unique atmosphere to screen better than anything before.
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Kirsty Griffin / Netflix; Charlie Le Maignan / … The Western Mythmaking of Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog
“She’s trying to understand something about American masculinity and what a gossamer facade it is.”
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Erica Parise / Hulu; Charlie Le Maignan / … Justice for Pamela
The brutal sixth episode of Pam & Tommy should have audiences rethinking how culture treated the ’90s sex symbol.
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Barry Wetcher / Universal; Charlie Le Maignan / … America Needs a Rom-Com Bailout
“It’s this or porn, people.”
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Kailey Schwerman / Showtime; Charlie Le Maignan / … Yellowjackets Is So Much More Than a ‘Female Lord of the Flies’
The real horror is the friends we made along the way.
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Netflix / Charlie Le Maignan / The Atlantic A Netflix Movie Echoing the Strain of Pandemic Parenting
The Lost Daughter is the rare film about a struggling mother that doesn’t excuse—or judge—her choices.
