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Searchlight Pictures Nomadland Is a Popcorn Picture for the Damned
I surprised myself by enjoying this sad movie about old people working seasonal jobs.
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Scotty Hall Elvis Reenters the Building
In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival.
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Amanda Perobelli / Reuters Photos of the Week: Glass Ceiling, Blue Grotto, Lava Glow
A May Day rally in Istanbul, a SpaceX splashdown in Florida, an early cicada in Maryland, a diving competition in Tokyo, orienteering in Ukraine, and much more
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Michael Sohn / AP / The Atlantic Podcast: Long COVID Questions Answered
A long-COVID patient and an immunologist help us understand the mysterious condition.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Michael Zwahlen … Somebody Has to Do It
Facebook’s made-up court is filling an enormous legal void.
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Qi Lianmin / VCG via Getty Robots Are Everywhere
Recent images of robotic technology from around the world
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Caroline Brehman / CQ-Roll Call, Inc /Getty Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame
The representative from Wyoming is taking a stand against an authoritarian streak in the Republican Party that she helped cultivate.
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Alex Edelman / EPA / Bloomberg / Getty … The Ringmaster Is Gone
But the circus remains.
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Ernst Haas / Getty The Case for Moving Back to Your Hometown
I thought of home as a waiting room, the place I had to be until I could go somewhere else. Then I left, and missed it terribly.
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Alex Wong / Thomas D. Mcavoy / The … Bidenomics Really Is Something New
The president is willing to take on political fights that Obama and Clinton considered unwise, if not unwinnable. Will that strategy pay off?
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty Scientific Publishing Is a Joke
An XKCD comic—and its many remixes—perfectly captures the absurdity of academic research.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty How College Became a Ruthless Competition Divorced From Learning
It is a truth universally acknowledged that elite parents, in possession of excellent jobs, want to get their kids into college.
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JAN BUCHCZIK How Adult Children Affect Their Mother’s Happiness
Plenty of moms feel something less than unmitigated joy around their grown-up kids. Make sure yours feels that she’s getting as much out of her relationship with you as she gives.
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Justin Chin / Bloomberg / Getty / The … Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing
From his private Cape Canaveral, the billionaire is manifesting his own interplanetary reality—whatever the cost.
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A photograph found in Cecil County, Maryland, shows … The Problem With Patriotism
I can’t ignore what this country has done to Black people. How do I find my place in it?
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Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Purgatory at Sea
Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the Mediterranean.
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Jasmine Carter / Pexels Podcast: The Surprisingly Complex History Behind 90 Day Fiancé
What a guilty-pleasure reality show teaches us about immigration and democracy in America
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Trump Made Content Moderation Into Reality TV
Writers from around our newsroom discuss the former president’s suspension from Facebook—and the effectiveness of the company’s new oversight board.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Spiderstock / … The Trump Decision Turned Content Moderation Into Shark Week
This is new, and this is bizarre.
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Erlon Silva / Getty / The Atlantic The Problem Is Facebook
Facebook’s “Supreme Court” might have upheld Donald Trump’s suspension, but that doesn’t make it a real court.
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Steve Geer / Getty Cicadas Have an Existential Problem
The bacteria that live inside the insects can’t keep themselves together.
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jamie squire / drew angerer / getty / … Ban Him Forever
To send the right message, Donald Trump’s removal from Facebook must be permanent.
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Apple TV+ How the Space Fantasy Became Banal
The final frontier, as a setting, has long channeled giddy dreams of human communion. A new group of cultural works explores the opposite possibility.
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Frederic Stevens / Getty / Katie Martin / … The Gates Divorce Is About More Than a Marriage
When the richest of the rich split up, the usual dilemmas are mixed in with the fate of enormous charitable efforts and billion-dollar stock holdings.
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Niharika Kulkarni / Reuters Biden Has the Power to Vaccinate the World
He should use it.
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Popperfoto; Roger-Viollet; Fred Stein Archive; Martha Holmes / … The Opportunists
In Louis Menand’s monumental new study of Cold War culture, success owes less to vision and purpose than to self-promotion.
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AJ Dungo The Original Kings of Esports
Black players pioneered what we now call esports. The industry hasn’t paid them back.
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Daniel Berehulak / Getty What Workism Is Doing to Parents
Public policy should assist families—but not by helping adults spend more time on the job.
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Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin Burn All the Leggings
What do you wear to the reopening of society?
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Why the Other Philip Roth Bio Never Took Off
Despite obvious drawbacks, authorized versions of an artist’s life are more compelling.
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