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Lynne Sladky / AP Letters: ‘Even If We Follow All Instructions, We Are Not Heard’
Readers respond to Jemele Hill’s account of her difficulty voting in Florida.
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The Conversation
Readers respond to our October 2018 cover stories and more.
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Mark Humphrey / AP Letters: ‘Let’s Encourage Participation Among All Sectors of Our Population’
Readers consider the impact of travel teams on youth-sports participation.
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Bettman / Getty Letters: ‘Everybody Needs Comfort, Calm, Respite’
Readers discuss the meaning of Fred Rogers’s famous advice to “look for the helpers.”
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Sang Tan / AP Letters: Sauron, Mortal Men, and ‘A Thoroughly Modern Ringwraith’
Readers respond to a Lord of the Rings–themed argument about erstwhile NeverTrumpers.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Letters: ‘We Continued Our 70-Year-Long Unbroken String of Voting’
We asked readers of The Atlantic Daily to tell us about their experiences voting in the midterms.
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Adam Glanzman / Getty Letters: 'Each Pitch ... Was Its Own Enthralling Odyssey'
Readers discuss the 2018 World Series—and whether baseball’s current structure is hampering the pleasure of watching it.
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Matt Rourke / AP Letters: ‘We Are Collectively Heartbroken at Our Loss of Innocence’
Readers respond to Franklin Foer’s reflection on the Pittsburgh synagogue killings.
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Reuters Letter: ‘When Does Female Empowerment Transcend the Magical Into the Actual?’
A reader responds to a look back at the film Practical Magic, two decades after its release.
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Mat Denney / Getty Letters: Poetry Was Never Endangered
Readers weigh in on the rise of the “Insta-poet.”
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Rihcard Baker / Getty Letters: Is the ‘Confidence Gap’ Real?
Readers discuss new research on why working women may be hesitant to talk up their accomplishments.
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Gareth Cattermole / TAS18 / Getty Letters: ‘Acting Like This Is a Boundless Battle for Wokeness Is Somewhat Absurd’
Readers discuss why social liberalism seems so prevalent in the culture industries.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Letters: ‘The GOP Is Too Far Gone’
Readers react to one steadfast Republican’s reasons for staying loyal to his party—in spite of the wounds inflicted by Donald Trump.
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Don Emmert / Getty Letters: ‘We Need to Resist the Mallification of New York’
Readers grapple with the implications of Manhattan’s empty-storefront problem—for the city, and for urban life everywhere.
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Dominick Reuter / AFP / Getty Letters: ‘The Term Political Correctness Primes People to Respond Negatively’
Readers respond to a new study showing that the majority of Americans reject PC culture.
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Ivan Chermayeff / The Atlantic ‘Unwanted Sex,’ 20 Years Later
The author of a radical proposal in The Atlantic’s October 1998 issue revisits his argument—and the negative reactions to it.
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Bettmann Archive / Getty Letter: Gary Hart Was Not Set Up
A journalist who reported on Gary Hart’s downfall in 1987 pushes back on the notion that the candidate’s Monkey Business incident may have been staged.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP Letters: ‘What Hope Does an Ordinary Black Man Have?’
Readers respond to Jemele Hill’s argument that black men who see themselves in Brett Kavanaugh are missing the point.
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Philip Cheung Letters: ‘It Is Devastating Every Time I Read of Another Child Who Was Not Protected’
Readers respond to the story of one child’s fatal abuse—and the child-welfare system that failed to save him.
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Elizabeth Robillard Brimhall / Elyse Blennerhassett Letter: Laquan McDonald’s Death and the Rhetoric of Police
A reader weighs in on the Chicago Police Department’s culture of intimidation, and describes her own experience processing the shooting of the 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
