Pop Music’s Nostalgia Obsession
Why do older sounds seem to dominate music lately?
Obama: I Underestimated the Threat of Disinformation
Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg in conversation with Barack Obama about the social web, Ukraine, and the future of democracy
The Experiment Podcast: Who Belongs in the Cherokee Nation?
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.
Why The Dropout Succeeds Where Other Scammer Shows Fall Short
It’s all too easy to forget the victims and glamorize the grifter.
West Side Story Needed an Update
The original is “a masterpiece … but it’s also a bit of a tough watch today.”
One Community’s Complicated Relationship With SPAM
A conversation about the canned meat’s lasting cultural impact on Filipino American life
Why Robert Pattinson’s Grim Batman Is Cause for Optimism
By bringing the character back to his noir-detective origins, The Batman shows that comic-book movies can contain multitudes.
The Experiment Podcast: An Engineer Tries to Build His Way Out of Tragedy
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.
A Film That Finally Captures Murakami’s Writing
Drive My Car is a rare adaptation of the Japanese novelist’s work that brings his unique atmosphere to screen better than anything before.
The Experiment Podcast: What a World War II Survival Story Reveals About Putin’s Lies
One Jewish American family’s debt to Ukraine
The Western Mythmaking of Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog
“She’s trying to understand something about American masculinity and what a gossamer facade it is.”
How Putin Thinks
A conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg, Anne Applebaum, and Tom Nichols about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s animating worldview, and what the coming days might hold
Justice for Pamela
The brutal sixth episode of Pam & Tommy should have audiences rethinking how culture treated the ’90s sex symbol.
America Needs a Rom-Com Bailout
“It’s this or porn, people.”
The Experiment Podcast: El Sueño de SPAM
Thirty years after the Hormel strike, a mysterious disease spreads among SPAMtown’s new workforce.
The Experiment Podcast: Cram Your SPAM
How SPAM built a town—and tore it apart
Yellowjackets Is So Much More Than a ‘Female Lord of the Flies’
The real horror is the friends we made along the way.
The Experiment Podcast: Uncle SPAM
During World War II, the American dream was exported across the world, one SPAM can at a time.
A Netflix Movie Echoing the Strain of Pandemic Parenting
The Lost Daughter is the rare film about a struggling mother that doesn’t excuse—or judge—her choices.
Introducing SPAM: A New Series About Family, Mystery Meat, and the American Dream
The Experiment presents a new, three-part miniseries: SPAM: How the American Dream Got Canned. Weekly episodes start February 3.