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The Conversation
Readers respond to “The Trouble With Dentistry” and more.
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Michael J P / Shutterstock Finally, an Intervention That Might Have Helped Keep High-Risk Teens Alive
Training trusted adults to check in on recovering adolescents could be an important, yet overlooked, strategy in preventing suicide.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP This Isn’t Going to Plan for Kirsten Gillibrand
The senator from New York is a battle-tested campaigner who thrives as the underdog. But 2020 is proving to be a much tougher challenge than she thought.
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Jazzercise, Inc. The World That Jazzercise Built
Fifty years after the exercise phenomenon was founded, its influence can be seen everywhere in American fitness culture—especially for women.
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Callahan / Olena Yakobchuk / Jacob Lund / ... The Joy of Writing a Book With My Dad
For much of my life, he has told me we should work on a book together. When we finally did, it was more rewarding than I could have imagined.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Tyranny of the 70-Somethings
The Democratic Party’s gerontocracy is holding back the political causes it claims to want to advance.
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Erin McCluskey My Three Grandfathers
Mama was in her 70s before she discovered the true story of her conception.
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Robert Eastman / Shutterstock / The Atlantic An Abandoned Weapon in the Fight Against Hate Speech
A 1952 Supreme Court ruling gave civil-rights groups a way to combat anti-Semitism and other prejudices—but in the years since, it’s largely gone unused.
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Father’s Day, 2019
On this date 11 years ago, which was Father’s Day in 2008, I posted a tribute to my own father…
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Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters Hong Kong’s Protesters Earn a Victory. They Will Need More.
Officials in Hong Kong said they would suspend controversial proposed legislation. There will be other efforts to erode the city’s freedoms.
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Stefanie Keenan / Getty Images Elizabeth Gilbert Is Owning Her Past Mistakes
“I was struck by how much shame there was in Eat Pray Love, and how apologetic I was as a narrator.”
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Melinda Josie Sugar on Snow
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Hillery Smith Garrison / AP What Nancy Pelosi Learned From the Clinton Impeachment
Interviews with the House speaker’s old friends and colleagues offer a window into her reluctance to pull the pin on a political grenade.
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Chip East / Reuters From Public Shame to the Courtroom
Gibson’s Bakery, a family-owned business near Oberlin College accused of racism, just won a big payout.
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Yara Nardi / Reuters Why Europe’s Far Right Is Targeting Gender Studies
A growing pattern of attacks across Europe is as much about electoral opportunity as a conflict of ideas.
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The Right to Sexuality
A couple with intellectual disabilities fights for the right to live together.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Help Wanted; Inquire Within
How the job of White House press secretary became nearly obsolete. Plus: The Democratic National Committee announces the breakdown of the first primary debates.
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Monica Schipper/Getty Images When They See Us Indicts the System
The new Central Park Five miniseries is about more than five falsely convicted boys.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Don’t Overthink a Climate-Change Debate
Of course Democratic candidates should square off on the issue. Here’s what a moderator should ask.
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Matt Dunham / AP Why Jessica Biel Is Wrong
As several states move to limit exemptions to required vaccines, the actor hit a nerve in a larger debate about personal belief in science.
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The Family Weekly: How the American Dream Leads Straight to McMansion Hell
Plus: How to negotiate with your kids like a business professor, and the age of “sharenting” is coming to an end.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Kamala Harris’s Mistake
A presidential candidate shouldn’t be endorsing the potential prosecution of a political opponent.
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Richard Drew / AP ‘Uh-Oh, We Shouldn’t Have This’
Tom Downey was advising the Gore team in 2000 when he received documents stolen from George W. Bush. His first reaction was to turn them over to the FBI.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Why Trump Uses Mock Spanish
The real reason the president says words such as loco and hombres
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Kyle Terada / USA Today Sports / Reuters A Historic NBA Championship for the Raptors
The Golden State Warriors were hampered by injuries, but the league’s newest victors were built to seize on the opportunity.
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Evan Vucci / AP There Is No White House Press Secretary
Trump will eventually appoint someone to replace Sarah Sanders. But the office has been functionally obliterated.
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New York Public Library The Books Briefing: Books From Our Fathers
Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Wenjia Tang When You Give a Friend a Kidney
“From the moment I thought Scott might need a kidney, it was just a given to me that I was giving him mine.”
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Focus Features The Dead Don’t Die Is Awfully Lifeless
Jim Jarmusch’s star-studded zombie movie is heavy on cynicism and low on entertainment.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute Saturn’s Largest Moon Would Make an Unbelievable Vacation Spot
You’d need an oxygen mask and enough layers to contend with beyond-freezing temperatures, but could leave the sunscreen at home.
