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.
Today’s Disney movies aren’t like the ones you grew up with. That isn’t a bad thing.
The Experiment revisits a conversation with the Ojibwe writer David Treuer, who believes we can make our national parks, sometimes called “America’s best idea,” even better.
Why do older sounds seem to dominate music lately?
Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg in conversation with Barack Obama about the social web, Ukraine, and the future of democracy
Marilyn Vann is a Black woman descended from people enslaved by the Cherokee Nation. More than 150 years after emancipation, her fight for citizenship continues.
It’s all too easy to forget the victims and glamorize the grifter.
The original is “a masterpiece … but it’s also a bit of a tough watch today.”
A conversation about the canned meat’s lasting cultural impact on Filipino American life
By bringing the character back to his noir-detective origins, The Batman shows that comic-book movies can contain multitudes.
The engineer James Sulzer spent years building robots to help people recover from brain injuries. But then a tragic family accident changed his work—and life—forever.