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Kevin C. Cox How LSU’s Football Championship Win Challenges the NCAA
With the recent victory, the association has shown signs that it cannot defend its amateurism model for much longer.
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John Taggart / Redux Harvey Weinstein’s Pain
As his criminal trial begins, the mogul seems to believe that the language of pain used by his accusers applies just as readily to himself.
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Sundance / Focus Features What Critics Are Looking Forward to at Sundance 2020
The annual film festival will kick off a new year in independent cinema this week.
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Mathew Brady / Library of Congress A Matter of Facts
The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Defending Trump Is a Has-Been’s Best Hope
Dershowitz, Giuliani, Starr, and others relive their glory days by latching onto the president.
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Andy Clark / Reuters The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act
A case now before the Fifth Circuit threatens to upend the laws that enable Native self-governance.
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Nicolas Asfouri / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Protesters Finally Have (Some) Power
Newly elected representatives are among those trying to turn the demonstrations into a permanent prodemocracy movement.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters The Solemn Absurdity of Trump’s Impeachment Trial
As senators embarked on their first day of proceedings, the occasional yawn and rubbing of the eyes emphasized the pointlessness of the whole affair.
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David Ryder / Getty What Jeff Bezos’s Reported Phone Hack Says About Billionaires
Stunning new allegations about the relationship between the Amazon CEO and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia hint at just how connected the world’s most powerful people are.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Hitchens Remembered
On the occasion of this year’s Hitchens Prize, a look back at tributes to Christopher Hitchens by Atlantic writers at the time of his death
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Alexander Drago / Reuters Why Trump’s Lawyers Keep Attacking Adam Schiff
Instead of mounting a defense of their client, the president’s lawyers homed in on remarks delivered by the House Democrat back in September.
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Print Collector / Getty / Farknot Architect / ... The Way We Write History Has Changed
A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Halsey, Selena Gomez, and Pop That Acknowledges Mental Struggle
Two new albums, Manic and Rare, air inner turmoil bluntly while staying catchy and controlled.
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Eloisa Lopez / Reuters The Colorless Landscape Around Taal Volcano
In the Philippines, parts of the landscape near Taal have gone completely gray, covered in a blanket of volcanic ash.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Mitch McConnell’s Potemkin Trial
Senate Republicans can scarcely afford to hold a trial—but they can hardly afford not to hold one either.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: The Trial Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Want
A “Potemkin trial,” a “rushed trial,” a “fair trial.” Plus: How the political “hobbyism” of the college-educated is ruining American politics.
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Pop TV Schitt’s Creek Has Been Building to This Point About Love
On the feel-good sitcom, now in its final season, romances signal a more surprising attachment: to home.
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Annalise Pasztor / The Atlantic What a Billionaire Thinks Every Kid Should Know
And what a child thinks of that advice
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Guns Are No Mere Symbol
Protesters gathered at the Virginia state capitol on Monday to exercise their First Amendment rights, but they did so in a way that took away the First Amendment rights of others.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP The Referees Have Taken Trump’s Side
If Mitch McConnell ran the Super Bowl, would the game even have to happen?
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Shutterstock / Getty / Paul Spella / The ... America’s Most Powerful Medical-Debt Collector
Treatment at a military hospital can leave you tens of thousands of dollars in debt—and hounded by the federal government.
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AP Photo This Is Not the Senate the Framers Imagined
The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the Seventeenth Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.
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Klara Auerbach / The Atlantic The Disintegration of the American Presidency
The president’s job is to oversee the whole of the executive branch, but under Trump the inverse is happening.
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Pool / Reuters Britain Could Be Canada
Ottawa’s ability to balance its interests and partners offers lessons for London.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Photos From the Pro-gun Rally in Virginia
Thousands gathered around Virginia’s state capitol to protest proposed gun-control laws.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Impeachment Brief Is a Howl of Rage
The document released by the president’s lawyers reads more like the scream of a wounded animal than a traditional legal filing.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP A Menu of Invasive Species
One approach to dealing with unwanted plants and animals: Eat them.
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Steve Heap / Shutterstock / Getty / The ... College-Educated Voters Are Ruining American Politics
Political hobbyism is to public affairs what watching SportsCenter is to playing football.
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BIANCA BAGNARELLI Dear Therapist: My Son Makes My New Husband Feel Alienated in Our Family
My husband feels disrespected and unloved, and I don’t know how to bring harmony back to our family.
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GKIDS A Film About Teens Finding Love Amid Climate Apocalypse
Makoto Shinkai’s bold and charming Weathering With You is set in a world ending so gradually, people barely notice it anymore.
