Megan Garber
Do You Speak Fox?
How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language
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Tyler Varsell American Cynicism Has Reached a Breaking Point
The nation’s politics is in dire need of earnestness. Can its culture meet the moment?
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Getty / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The ‘Pussy’ Presidency
Donald Trump ended his term in office the way he began it: by invoking a perverse vision of manliness.
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SAUL LOEB / AFP / Getty When the Mob Reached the Chamber
Watching the insurrectionists, I felt outrage and horror and heartbreak. What some of them seemed to feel was boredom.
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Soomin Jung 2020 Changed What TV Is For
Viewers didn’t care about “good” or “bad” television this year. Maybe the distinction never mattered.
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KFC / Lifetime I’m Really Sorry, but Let’s Talk About That Chicken Movie
In a time of rampant lies, a KFC-Lifetime rom-com is about as refreshingly blunt as you can get.
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The 15 Best TV Shows of 2020
The year’s most distinct and worthwhile series
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Apple TV+ / Stephanie Branchu / Netflix The New Comedy of American Decline
Even works of escapism are reckoning with waning national myths.
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The Atlantic Fox News Hits a Dangerous New Low
The most-watched news network in America is choosing to mislead its viewers about the state of the election.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Beware False Endings
At a time when uncertainty may be the election’s only immediate result, Americans have an opportunity to rethink the way stories are told.
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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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