Megan Garber
Do You Speak Fox?
How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language
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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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Simoul Alva The Perfect Quarantine Joke Is Not About Quarantine
Comedy, the adage goes, is tragedy plus time. But in this pandemic, even humor has no idea what the future holds.
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