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IFC Films When the FBI Spied on MLK
The bureau’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. reflects a paranoia about Black activism that’s foundational to American politics.
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Paul Spella / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Parler’s Rise Was Also Its Downfall
The app that stoked the insurrection is gone, but something else is destined to replace it.
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Getty / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Right Fragility
If the right likes to call out left-wing theatrical exaggerations, it has also learned from them and in the past weeks has emulated them.
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Paul Spella / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Coming Republican Amnesia
How will the GOP recover from the Trump era? Pretend it never happened.
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Dey Street Books / Viking / Hachette Books ... The 10 Best Political Books of 2020 by Black Women
Last year, Black women called upon themselves, made themselves heard, and shared their political talents and minds.
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Miki Lowe A Word on Statistics
A poem by Wisława Szymborska, published in The Atlantic in 1997
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Courtesy of Daniel Loedel / The Atlantic My Sister Was Disappeared 43 Years Ago
A casualty of Argentina’s so-called Dirty War, Isabel haunted my childhood like a ghost. Then I started searching for her.
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Getty / The Atlantic ‘What If You Just Don’t Tell Anyone?’
Why some people pretend they never had COVID-19
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Joseph Prezioso / AFP / Getty Treat the Attack on the Capitol as Terrorism
Failing to do so simply because most of the rioters are white and regard themselves as “patriots” would be deeply unjust.
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Getty / The Atlantic Stocks Don't Care About the Coup
As the Capitol rocked, capital shrugged. How can that be?
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Getty / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Donald Trump’s Masculinity Is an Empty Spectacle
The president ended his term in office the way he began it: by invoking a perverse vision of manliness.
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Alexander Gardner / Library of Congress What Lincoln Knew
In his second inaugural address, the 16th president had a message for a war-weary nation.
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Getty / The Atlantic QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within
Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can’t.
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Disney+ The Deep Sadness of Marvel’s WandaVision
So far, the Disney+ show is telling a story not about an epic struggle to save humanity, but about one woman’s efforts to save herself from her grief.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic America’s Second-Worst Scenario
So far, cumulative acts of civic virtue have saved the republic. But the constitutional order is still in danger.
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Everett Collection The Early-Pandemic Heist Thriller That No One Asked For
Locked Down has the air of a homework assignment completed the morning it was due.
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Mark Rightmire / Orange County Register / Getty The Corpse Flower Is Not in the Mood
Saving the world’s stinkiest plant would be easier if it had any interest in reproducing.
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Getty / The Atlantic India Has a Fake-Jobs Problem
Employment fraud in the country is neither new nor small, but its prospects have never looked brighter.
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Getty / The Atlantic How to Break the Demagogue Cycle
The Senate must convict Trump in order to disqualify him from ever holding public office again.
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Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg / Getty We’re Just Finding Out How Bad the Riot Really Was
More than a week after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, video recordings, news reports, and federal charges are revealing a situation even more dire than it seemed at the time.
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The Atlantic The Other Tragedy of January 6
One hundred and forty-seven Republican members of Congress voted to sustain a delusion in the American mind.
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The Atlantic Daily: 3 Stories to Watch
The country is on the eve of a transfer of power. But federal officials warn that more violence is possible ahead of next week’s inauguration.
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Bloomberg / Getty Pramila Jayapal Is ‘Next-Level’ Angry
The congresswoman tested positive for COVID-19 after sheltering with Republicans who refused to wear masks.
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NIAID / The Atlantic Listen: Coronavirus Mutations
How bad are the new COVID-19 variants, really?
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Is Evolving Before Our Eyes
The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Mike Pence Has Nowhere to Go
The vice president has no obvious place in GOP electoral politics.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Joe Biden’s Looming War on White Supremacy
The insurrection could spur a federal-government crackdown on white-nationalist groups, as well as strengthen the case for systemic police reform.
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David Strick / Redux The Emotional Miseducation of Tiger Woods
A new HBO documentary zeroes in on the immense psychological toll it took for the legendary golfer to go from prodigy to phenom.
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Win McNamee / Getty White Christian Nationalists Want More Than Just Political Power
And Washington, D.C., looms large in their struggle.
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Alex Merto Why Your To-Do List Never Ends
For many Americans, there’s more to do, and less mental bandwidth with which to do it.
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