Predictions for a Post-Roe America
What could Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion mean around the country? Three Atlantic writers weigh in.
Introducing How to Start Over
Your one-stop shop for navigating the challenges of changing your life
Why the Puzzle-Box Sci-Fi of Severance Works
Where Lost and Westworld spun out, the Apple TV+ show’s contained world succeeds.
The Experiment Podcast: Judge Judy’s Law
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?
The Northman’s Surprising Twist on Male Heroism
How the brutal Viking blockbuster uses a millennia-old tale to undermine the toxic masculinity of myth.
Everything Everywhere All at Once Is Multiverse Storytelling at Its Best
How the film turns a comic-book trope into an unpretentiously profound message
The Experiment Podcast: The Resurgence of the Abortion Underground
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.
The Post-villain Era of Animation
Today’s Disney movies aren’t like the ones you grew up with. That isn’t a bad thing.
The Experiment Podcast: Should We Return National Parks to Native Americans?
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.
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.”