Megan Garber
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The Phantom Reckoning
From Les Moonves to Louis C.K. to so many others implicated in #MeToo, there have been many performances of accountability theater. But those in power have repeatedly proven themselves unwilling to make amends.
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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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John G. Zimmerman / Getty / Katie Martin ... Homes Actually Need to Be Practical Now
One of the ironies of social distancing is that it can put privacy in short supply.
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The Atlantic The Utter Weirdness of Small Talk in a Pandemic
Pleasantries amid a global health crisis are woefully insufficient. They are also what we have.
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Warner Brothers / Everett Collection The Problem of the Pandemic Movie
The 1995 film Outbreak offers a narrow vision of heroism during an epidemiological crisis. That message is ill-suited to the realities of the coronavirus.
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Cindy Ord / Getty / The Atlantic How Hillary Clinton Became a Postmodern Menace
The former presidential candidate is in the news again. Why do some find that so troubling?
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M. Scott Brauer / Redux Sexism Is Other People
‘Electability.’ ‘Likability.’ ‘Authenticity.’ The 2020 Democratic primary has found many canny ways to make misogyny plausibly deniable.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Getty The American President, for the Foreseeable Future, Will Be a Man
That’s it. That’s the story.
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Drew Angerer / Getty America Punished Elizabeth Warren for Her Competence
The country still doesn’t know what to make of a woman—in politics, and beyond—who refuses to qualify her success.
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Craig Ruttle / Redux ‘Alleged’ No Longer
Harvey Weinstein was tried over the past two months. So were regressive ideas about what sexual violence really looks like.
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Mason Foster / The Atlantic Whistleblower: When a Memoir Is Also an Indictment
The book from the former Uber engineer Susan Fowler is an intimate first-person account that doubles as a warning.
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malerapaso / Getty / Paul Spella / The ... The Weinstein Trial and the Lies of Due Process
The constitutional term may be rooted in reason. In practice, it can look a lot uglier.
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Heritage Images / Getty Boredom Is Winning
The impeachment trial of Donald Trump is merely the latest reminder: American politics has become uncomfortably numb.
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