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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Al Powers / Invision / AP Harvey Weinstein and the Power of Celebrity Exceptionalism
Stars, they’re just like us—until they’re not.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters In the Valley of the Open Secret
From Thomas Carlyle to Harvey Weinstein, a brief history of a pernicious term
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20th Century Fox What Finally Ruins The Mountain Between Us
Idris Elba and Kate Winslet, struggling to survive in the elements—what could go wrong? (A lot, it turns out.)
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Arthur Mola / Invision / AP What Harvey Weinstein's Apology Reveals
In response to a report detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations, the mogul released a statement—one that perfectly captures this chaotic moment in American culture.
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David Levenson / Getty Images Writing Advice From a (Newly Minted) Nobel Winner
Kazuo Ishiguro wrote the bulk of The Remains of the Day in four weeks. All it took was extreme dedication—and a willingness to be terrible.
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ABC Black-ish Embraces the Urgency of History
The show’s fourth-season premiere, “Juneteenth: The Musical,” is a comedy. And a work of education. And an indictment.
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Chris Haston / NBC Will & Grace & Donald
The NBC show’s return after 11 years found its old chemistry—and a new, spectral cast member.
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Leonardo da Vinci / Wikimedia Commons / gillmar ... The Mona Lisa Presidency
In response to an administration that has cheapened the value of words, images are becoming a form of public art—and in some quarters, a form of resistance.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump's War Against the Media Isn't a War
You need two sides for that.
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Charles Sykes / Invision / AP Megyn Kelly's Perniciously 'Politics-Free' Morning-Show Debut
“The truth is, I am kind of done with politics for now!” the former Fox News host told a cheering studio audience, before launching into an hour that was entirely about them.
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Matt Dunham / AP They Took a Knee
This weekend, a series of taunting messages from the president led to a widescale protest among players—in the NFL, and beyond.
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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.
