Megan Garber
Do You Speak Fox?
How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language
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Chris Haston / NBCU Photo Bank / The ... Dwight Schrute Was a Warning
When The Office originally aired, its resident fool made for easy comedy. Fifteen years later, it’s hard to watch Dwight without seeing tragedy.
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AP / The Atlantic Atlas Coughed
Donald Trump has steadily turned masks into symbols—not of government overreach, but of governmental impunity.
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Illustration by Alexandria McLin; photograph by Howard University Kamala Harris’s Ambition Trap
By talking plainly about her qualifications, Harris embodies progress. Will it work?
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Getty / The Atlantic Trump’s Interruptions Had a Double Message
The president’s favorite debate tactic was a foundational form of disrespect—levied against his opponent as well as the nation.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fandom Was Never Frivolous
The kitschy celebrations of the justice have always insisted, in their way, that the personal is judicial.
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Aaron Coleman for Kansas / Facebook / The ... The Unending Influence of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’
The saga of 19-year-old Aaron Coleman’s political candidacy has turned into a too-simple parable about forgiving youthful indiscretion.
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Montree Wongsuli / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why the DNC Worked So Well
The Democrats, in nominating their 2020 candidates, just did something rare: They publicly acknowledged people’s pain.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Pop Culture Failed to Imagine Kamala Harris
Her candidacy meets a culture that, too often, still doesn’t know what to make of women who seek to lead.
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The Atlantic Before the Media Treated Him as a Threat, They Treated Him as a Joke
Roy Den Hollander, now suspected of murder, was once a mini-celebrity—a figure whose misogyny was dismissed as entertainment.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic How Americans Became Part of the Trump Family
The president’s dark emotional inheritance has become the nation’s.
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Shutterstock; Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Threat to American Democracy That Has Nothing to Do With Trump
The disappearance of local news is a slow-moving disaster.
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KangHee Kim Americans Are Living in an Alternate History
As the pandemic has raged on, popular culture has found new ways to ask an old question: What could have been instead?
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Scott Olson / Getty Don’t Fall for the ‘Chaos’ Theory of the Protests
By invoking the word yesterday, Trump erased the purpose of demonstrators across the country. The media should not follow suit.
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Getty / The Atlantic Refusing to Wear a Mask Is an Empty Act of Defiance
Those who reject facial coverings during the pandemic do so amid broad consensus about what public safety demands.
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Hasbro / The Atlantic The Board Game That Turns Feminism Into a Joke
I played Ms. Monopoly so that you don’t have to.
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The Paranoid Style in American Entertainment
How the mechanisms of reality TV taught us to trust no one
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Celina Pereira Good Riddance to the Handshake
A terrible custom is gone for good. Hallelujah.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Uncertainty Became a Weapon in the Tara Reade Story
The treatment of her sexual-assault claim about Joe Biden has revealed a cultural impulse to take refuge in easy absolutes.
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Everett Collection / Alamy / The Atlantic Groundhog Day Was a Horror Movie All Along
The 1993 existential comedy has become a meme and a metaphor for this moment. But that’s only partly because of its exploration of monotony.
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Getty / The Atlantic Trump Is Building a Dystopia in Real Time
Every day, the president’s coronavirus briefings broadcast an alarming argument: that public health is best understood as a matter of PR.
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