Arch Enemies
A new company is bringing the engineering savvy of rocket science to the design of the high-heeled shoe. Can stilettos that are actually comfortable to wear change centuries’ worth of symbolism?
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ABC / YouTube The Anger of Jimmy Kimmel
On Tuesday, the late-night host once again devoted his show to the politics of American health care. This time, though, he offered indignation rather than tears.
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Phil McCarten / Invision for the Television Academy ... Veep's Showrunner on Clinton, Trump, and Insulting Jonah
Before David Mandel accepted the HBO show’s third consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, he spoke with The Atlantic about writing political satire for a fractious world.
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Mary Altaffer / AP 'What More Do You Need?'
In What Happened, Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir, the politician has become cautiously diaristic.
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Justina Mintz / HBO Insecure and the Fiction of Possibility
The HBO show’s Season 2 finale takes a Sliding Doors approach to its characters’ lives—to masterful effect.
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HBO Game of Thrones: About That Hookup
Incest, in this show, is a practice that is also a metaphor—for insularity, for myopia, for people’s unwillingness to see beyond themselves.
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HBO What Did Game of Thrones Accomplish This Year?
Three Atlantic staffers discuss "The Dragon and the Wolf," the Season 7 finale.
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Herman Knippertz / AP The Enduring Fictions of Princess Diana
Twenty years after her death, her life still asks uncomfortable questions about what we demand of fame.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Deus Ex Westeros
Absurd plot twists. Unanswered questions. Could Game of Thrones go the way of Lost?
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Will Heath / NBC 'Let Us Eat Cake': The Tina Fey Effect in 2017
The aftermath of Charlottesville has brought up important questions about who should be speaking, and who should be listening.
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HBO Would You Believe Jon Snow?
In its current season, Game of Thrones is exploring the life of another kind of monster: the alternative fact.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP An Indelible Image From Trump's 'On Both Sides' Press Conference
Once again, the chief executive chose his own words over the ones that had been prepared for him.
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CBS Joking After Charlottesville
On Monday, Anthony Scaramucci appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. He was ready to laugh. The host—and the host’s audience—were not.
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Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones: No Choice at All
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “Eastwatch,” the fifth episode of the seventh season.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters 'We Need to Call It Out for What It Is'
At a church service on Sunday, Virginia’s governor condemned white supremacy—doing what the president has not.
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Steve Helber / AP Why Charlottesville?
The university town was once named “the happiest city in America.” More and more, though, it’s the setting for hatred.
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Participant Media When the Planet Is Reality Television
An Inconvenient Sequel is technically a documentary. But only technically.
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ABC Settling vs. Settling Down: 2 Ways of Looking at the Bachelorette Finale
Some fans saw Rachel Lindsay’s final choice as a compromise of her desires. In another way, though, her selection is getting her exactly what she wanted.
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HBO Game of Thrones: Queen of the Ashes
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Spoils of War,” the fourth episode of the seventh season.
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ProStockStudio / Shutterstock Why The Emoji Movie Fails
The new book The Emoji Code celebrates the democratic ambiguity of pictographs. The movie's conceit stifles it.
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ABC The Bachelorette and the Empty Redemptions of Reality TV
The show’s The Men Tell All special confronted Lee Garrett for his racist tweets. Producers treated it as a productive conversation; it was anything but.
