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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking
For the first time in 50 years, the rich are buying more free time.
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Jamie Hodgson / Getty Is Defying Parents the Only Ethical Alternative?
Instead of rigid rules, educators need the freedom to finesse delicate questions about young students’ gender identity.
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Roy Rochlin / Getty Why the Far Right Is Fixated on Drag Queens
The ACLU’s Chase Strangio draws the connection between the global antidemocratic movement and rising anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and violence in the U.S.
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Netflix A Film That Makes Sex Scenes Look Like Works of Art
Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover updates the book’s treatment of sex, presenting the act as not just an erotic force, but a miraculous one.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Most Consequential First Amendment Case This Term
303 Creative v. Elenis isn’t about LGBTQ rights, as many people believe it to be, but about what constitutes speech.
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Illustration by Alex Cochran The Pandemic Exposed the Inequality of American Motherhood
Rich and poor women had completely different experiences.
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The Atlantic Harassment in Economics Doesn’t Stay in Economics
When women in the profession face mistreatment, everyone suffers.
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Chicago Daily News / Getty; Schlesinger Library, Harvard … Why Did Gay Rights Take So Long?
A quiet movement that began in the 1920s didn’t disappear—it just went underground.
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Hirz/Archive Photos/Getty; The Atlantic 21 Reader Views on the Masculinity Crisis
“There’s no reason to feel guilty about falling short of an ideal masculinity that has been repeatedly revealed to be less than ideal,” one reader writes.
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Everett Collection; The Atlantic The Unexpected Power of Seeing Yourself as a Villain
If horror-film monsters mirror society’s deepest anxieties, embracing them draws attention to who or what is deemed worthy of fear.
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Hirz / Archive Photos / Getty The Trouble With Boys and Men
Plus: Was post-Soviet optimism for Russia misguided?
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Stringer / Anadolu Agency / Getty ‘I Think the Women Are Winning’
Are protests over Mahsa Amini’s death heralding a new Iranian revolution?
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Amanda Voisard / Reuters What to Teach Young Kids About Gender
Schools should tell children to be themselves. But some districts say too much—and mistake progressive dogma for established fact.
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Danielle Del Plato Redshirt the Boys
Why boys should start school a year later than girls
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Getty; The Atlantic The Last Truly Great Day for Women in American Law
I remember thinking it was exceptional. In retrospect, it’s heartbreaking.
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Paramount Pictures / Newsmakers How Early-2000s Pop Culture Changed Sex
Sophie Gilbert on intimacy, Game of Thrones, American Pie, and more
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FPG / Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic How Should Feminists Have Sex Now?
A new memoir on the unfinished sexual revolution explores the difficulty of enacting one’s political beliefs in intimate spaces.
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New York Historical Society / The Atlantic Asking Gay Men to Be Careful Isn’t Homophobia
Public-health officials don’t need to tiptoe around how monkeypox is currently being transmitted.
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Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic; Jasmin Merdan / … Escaping the Patriarchy for Good
In her 1963 novel, The Wall, Marlen Haushofer offered a character who has agency and a desire to make the world and herself anew.
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Illustration by Nícolas Ortega. Source: Jean Honoré Fragonard. Don’t Call Them Trash
Romance novels celebrate female pleasure and aspiration.
