Ron DeSantis Debates His Grievances
For Gavin Newsom, the TV exposure had a clear logic. But for the Florida governor, all that was apparent was his psychic need.
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François Duhamel / Netflix May December Exposes the Art of Self-Deception
Todd Haynes’s May December is a beautiful, terrible nesting doll of a film with a uniquely twisted core.
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Josef Koudelka / Magnum A Masterful Depiction of Male Cruelty
For decades, Claire Keegan has been exploring the shabby way the world treats women.
Vlad Sokhin/Panos Pictures/Redux Something Big Just Happened at COP
Wealthy countries might finally pay for the climate change they caused.
Spencer Platt / Getty Meet the Super SPAC
The political group No Labels is creating a shell campaign. It will acquire a candidate later.
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Illustration by Jan Buchczik Three Ways to Tell If Research Is Bunk
Here are some rules for deciding whether a new social-science finding is really useful to you.
Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty The Murky Shoplifting Narrative
Perceptions of an increase in retail theft are fueling changes to policy and the experience of shopping.
Photos of the Week: Origami Mosaic, Ice Web, Monkey Festival
The Loy Krathong festival in Thailand, a funeral service for Rosalynn Carter in Georgia, an eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, hostage and prisoner releases in Israel and the West Bank, and much more
The Secret to a Good Conversation
A new cultural history embraces talk as an open-ended source of temporary delight.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty. The Myth of ‘Learning Styles’
A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked.
China Stringer Network / Reuters Justice in the Middle
On the jurisprudence of Sandra Day O'Connor, possibly the swing vote on the new Supreme Court (From 1988)
Bob Daugherty / AP The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife
A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith. (From 2016)
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