Steven Johnson
The Very Male Trump Administration
The president has named twice as many men as women to appointed positions, an Atlantic analysis shows.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Gender Trap of Being First Lady
Unelected and unpaid, first ladies often struggle to develop their own policy goals. But even so, the case of Melania Trump stands out.
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Luke MacGregor / Reuters The Family Weekly: Women of the Past and Future
Highlights from this week’s coverage on relationships and family life
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Sergio G. Cañizares / Getty The Bargain at the Heart of the Kid Internet
A proliferation of free, entertaining online content often leads parents, kids, and tech companies to overlook—or worse, disregard—data-privacy laws.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters The Forever Aftermath of a Mass Shooting
Americans affected by gun violence talk about trauma, grieving, and intermittent hope.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters Our Lives Since the 2016 Pulse Shooting: Christine Leinonen's and Brandon Wolf's Stories
“My heart died when Christopher died.”
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Eric Thayer / Reuters My Life Since the 2012 Sandy Hook Shooting: Sarah Clements’s Story
“People always say, ‘Nothing changed after Sandy Hook.’ And that angers me, because I actually don't think this moment would be happening without the change that happened after Sandy Hook.”
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Darren Hauck / Reuters My Life Since the 2012 Sikh Temple Shooting: Pardeep Singh Kaleka's Story
"Sandy Hook happened about four months after our shooting. And ... nothing really changed. Not enough to make up for the human suffering. But I do feel hopeful."
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images / … Why There Are Pop-Ups for Everything Now
Temporary shops were once emblems of scrappy entrepreneurialism. Today they tend to be marketing efforts from giant corporations.
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Yves Herman / Reuters When Rich Places Want to Secede
At the core of Catalonia’s separatist movement is an argument that a country’s better-off regions shouldn’t have to pay to cover their less productive counterparts.
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Orlin Wagner / AP The Mascot All the Other Mascots Look Up To
For almost 30 years, Dan Meers has built a professional community founded on radical kindness as Kansas City’s KC Wolf.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Tests of Fortitude
North Korea’s provocative missile test, Harvey’s economic cost, the keys to making friendships closer, and more
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Goran Tomasevic / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Battle Plans
The echoes of Trump’s new Afghanistan policy, the impact of Confederate monuments, the loss of heritage dairy cows, and more
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Trump Backtracks
The president blames both sides for violence in Charlottesville, the DOJ tries to seize a protest website's visitor logs, North Korea walks back its threat to Guam, and more.
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KCNA / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Warning Words
Trump's threat to North Korea, how the U.S. fell for alternative facts, what it's like to see a total eclipse, and more
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: On the Wray In
The Senate confirms a new FBI director, Trump may stop Obamacare subsidies, Congress considers campus speech, and more.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Procedural Drama
The Senate's first step toward repealing Obamacare, why Trump might fire Robert Mueller, the fascination of brains in jars, and more
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Pressure's On
A planned vote to repeal Obamacare, new sanctions on Iran, Thucydides's take on populism, and more
