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Richard Drew / AP What Michael Cohen’s Guilty Plea Means for Trump
The president’s former fixer on Tuesday said he broke campaign laws at Trump’s behest, paying off two women who alleged extramarital affairs.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Asia Argento, #MeToo, and the Complicated Question of Power
The actress, who accused Harvey Weinstein of rape, reportedly settled claims with her own accuser. Her response to the allegations drew from a familiar playbook.
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Rogelio V. Solis / AP Public Opinion Shifts in Favor of School Choice
In a new survey, a majority of respondents support the expansion of families’ education options. But specific programs such as vouchers remain polarizing.
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Why Your Kid Should Be a Rebel
Teaching children to break the rules constructively can have tremendous benefits for society.
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Reuters/Mario Anzuoni How a Wells Fargo Counting Error Cost Hundreds Their Homes
Calculating homeowners’ eligibility for mortgage modifications should have been straightforward. But an automated decision-making tool contained an error for five years.
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Victoria Jones / Press Association via AP Christopher Steele’s Victory in a D.C. Court
A D.C. judge has dismissed a defamation suit filed by Russia’s Alfa Bank against the former British intelligence officer and author of the dossier alleging ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
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Luis Robayo / AFP / Getty Fleeing Venezuela’s Crushing Economic Crisis
Hyperinflation, rationing, shortages of power, water, and medicine, low wages, lack of jobs, and years of a worsening crisis have driven hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to leave their ailing country behind.
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MTV Films / Courtesy Everett Collection How Better Luck Tomorrow Argued for Its Existence, 15 Years Ago
Justin Lin’s indie about a group of bad teenagers in suburbia hit theaters in 2003, complicating the question of Asian American representation in Hollywood in ways that still resonate deeply today.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Madonna’s Tone-Deaf Tribute to Aretha Franklin
At the MTV VMAs, the big memorial for the Queen of Soul came in the form of lengthy self-mythologizing by the Queen of Pop.
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mrs / Getty The Isolating Life of Parenting a Potential Psychopath
They say it takes a village to raise a child, but what do you do when the village shuns you?
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Gene J. Puskar / AP ‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’
How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into hoarders
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Warner Bros. / The Atlantic Which Crazy Rich Asians Scenes Were Most Memorable?
Four Atlantic staffers discuss the film’s particular power, and the movie moments they’re still thinking about.
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Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou The Thousands of Children Who Go to Immigration Court Alone
Unaccompanied migrant children living in Fresno face greater challenges than their coastal counterparts when it comes to fighting to stay in the U.S.
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Women Who Weld There’s a Shortage of Welders. Will More Women Fill the Gap?
Past efforts to attract women to welding have had underwhelming results. New programs aim to change that.
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Gerry Broome / AP The Dramatic Fall of Silent Sam, UNC’s Confederate Monument
Protesters toppled the 1913 statue Monday night, making it the latest Civil War memorial to be removed either by government or by demonstrators acting on their own.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters If Trump Said the N Word
What happens next would reveal little about the president, and much about American society.
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Anthony Ngujuna / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: About to Change
Remembering Kofi Annan, what Trump’s lawyers’ testimony could mean, how sexism shapes women’s wages, and more
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Sue Me!
President Trump tweeted that he hopes former CIA Director John Brennan goes to court over the revocation of his security clearance, saying that it would make it easier to show “the poor job he did” as CIA director.
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Jim Wells / AP The Press vs. the President
A brief history of the struggles between journalists and the presidents they cover
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Molly Riley / AFP / Getty A Woman’s Paycheck Is Influenced by Her Hometown—Even If She Doesn’t Live There Anymore
In a new study, economists find women from places where sexist attitudes prevail end up earning less later in life.
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HBO The Lazy Trope of the Unethical Female Journalist
With Camille Preaker, Zoe Barnes, and Rory Gilmore, Hollywood’s depictions of women reporters have never been further from reality.
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A Treacherous, Ill-Fated Expedition to Antarctica
Despite never successfully reaching the South Pole, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s observations on the continent resound.
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Netflix The Enduring Appeal of the ‘Fake Relationship’ Rom-Com
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, the new Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han’s 2014 novel, brings a sweet, teen-focused approach to one of the most beloved hallmarks of the romantic comedy.
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Libor Hajsky / Reuters Photos: 50 Years Since a Soviet Invasion Ended the Prague Spring
In August 1968, the Soviet Union sent 2,000 tanks and thousands of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia to seize control and put down its growing pro-democratic government.
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Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP / Getty Images The Greece Bailout’s Legacy of Immiseration
The cynicism and brutality of what happened there is for the whole world to see.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The U.S. Will Spend Billions in Syria—Just Not on Rebuilding It
The Trump administration has ended a civilian-aid program in the country, but the cost of the counter-ISIS fight far outweighs those savings.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Are Trump’s Lawyers an Asset or a Liability?
The testimony of the attorneys Michael Cohen and Don McGahn could pose major problems for the president—a risk exacerbated by the chaos on his defense team.
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Found Image Holdings / Corbis / Getty Why It Feels So Terrible to Drop Your Kid at College
The freedom of adulthood makes parents lose touch with dread, and emptying the nest offers a certain, and sometimes unwelcome, return to it.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Kofi Annan Was a Politician as Well as a Peacemaker
The former UN secretary-general, who died Saturday, showed what it meant to be a good international civil servant.
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Brandon Martin / Rice University The Parasitic Vine That Slowly Sucks the Life Out of Wasps
“Pretty freaky”
