The term social distance has come to characterize our times, with fewer chances to socialize and make friends. But for many, opportunities for friend-making and socialization have always been limited—veiled by the subjective rules of social inclusion.
Knowing when to end a long-term relationship starts with knowing why things aren’t working.
In a society designed for romantic couples, singlehood can be seen as an unwelcome circumstance. For some, being single is not a matter of rebellion, but an irrefutable nature—worthy of its own social standing.
As family norms evolve from generation to generation, so do parent-child dynamics. Changing our relationship with the people who raised us requires not only action but a consideration of whether it’s even possible.
For The Experiment’s final episode, a meditation on our strange, sometimes beautiful, often frustrating country
Starting over can feel impossible when it involves a sunk cost—an investment with no returns. But when it comes to your career, is it ever too late to start over?
Olga Khazan and Julia Longoria sit down to announce The Atlantic’s new How To series: How to Start Over.
How does the classic work of propaganda hold up? And can its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, deliver decades later?
Deep in Yellowstone National Park, Mike Belderrain stumbled into an area where, technically, the law couldn’t touch him.
Sophie Gilbert, Megan Garber, and Hannah Giorgis discuss Hollywood and the way it depicts abortion (or doesn’t).
At the height of the Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil-rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Now the reporter Ko Bragg searches for memories in a town that would rather forget.
Three basketball-loving writers discuss the first season of HBO’s controversial series about the 1980s Lakers.
The Experiment revisits the story of Aséna Tahir Izgil, a Uyghur teen adjusting to life in the U.S. after escaping China’s genocide of her people.
What could Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion mean around the country? Three Atlantic writers weigh in.
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Where Lost and Westworld spun out, the Apple TV+ show’s contained world succeeds.
For decades, Americans have been bypassing the court system and settling their disputes on Judge Judy. But can people really find justice in a TV courtroom?
How the brutal Viking blockbuster uses a millennia-old tale to undermine the toxic masculinity of myth.
How the film turns a comic-book trope into an unpretentiously profound message
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could overturn Roe v. Wade in June, the reporter Jessica Bruder speaks with activists prepared to take abortions into their own hands.