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Yuri Gripas / Reuters How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Plain Black Jacket Became a Controversy
The backlash against the incoming congresswoman’s “very nice” outfit is both tedious and predictable.
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Mendelsund / Munday Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic When Families Un-Adopt a Child
Between 1 and 5 percent of U.S. adoptions get legally dissolved each year. Some children are put up for “second-chance adoptions.”
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Left-Wing Protests Are Crossing the Line
Protesters harassing prominent conservatives in their private lives fall short of the standards of civil disobedience.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How Sheryl Sandberg Lost Her Feminist Street Cred
The latest news about Facebook is a wake-up call that “leaning in” doesn’t mean doing right.
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Fernando Vergara / AP Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck
Despite vast increases in the time and money spent on research, progress is barely keeping pace with the past. What went wrong?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why Jim Acosta Got His Pass Back
A judge suggested that it’s unconstitutional to revoke a reporter’s press pass without providing a reason.
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HBO The Gorgeous Savagery of My Brilliant Friend
The HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s first Neapolitan novel is a strikingly faithful achievement.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters The Democrats' Delayed Gratification in the Midterms
It was a blue tide, not a blue wave: While some results have been slow to arrive, they show that Democrats had more success in the elections than was immediately clear.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Midterms Sent an Unmistakable Message to Republicans
So long as the GOP stays loyal to President Trump, its prospects on the electoral map will be sharply restricted.
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Ringo H. W. Chiu / AP Kim Kardashian’s Private Firefighters Expose America’s Fault Lines
“Rich people don’t get their own ‘better’ firefighters, or at least they aren’t supposed to.”
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Doug Scaletta via Scholastic / Katie Martin / ... The Fleeting Magic of Scholastic Book Fairs
Years later, many adults still pine for the days their school libraries, auditoriums, and gyms transformed into pop-up bookstores.
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Jonathan Ernst / Leah Millis / Alex Wong ... The New Politics of Climate Change
The dust is settling on the 2018 midterms—and no plan to fight global warming has emerged unscathed.
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Trump Is Exposing a Major Flaw in American Democracy
The recent appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general threatens the rule of law in the U.S.
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Jacques Brinon / AP The Bitter Class Struggle Behind Our Definition of a Kilogram
Before standardization, units of measurement were often manipulated by tyrants to cheat peasants and steal land.
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Hugh Kretschmer The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans
Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.
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Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Metal Bull, First Snow, Raging Wildfires
A fireworks festival in Burma, political turmoil in Sri Lanka, starlings over Rome, an Allosaurus in Paris, wintry scenes in northern China, and much more
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