Starting Over When You Think It’s Too Late
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?
The Experiment: How to Start Over With Olga Khazan
Olga Khazan and Julia Longoria sit down to announce The Atlantic’s new How To series: How to Start Over.
The Review: Top Gun
How does the classic work of propaganda hold up? And can its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, deliver decades later?
The Experiment Podcast: The 50-Square-Mile Zone Where the Constitution Doesn't Apply
Deep in Yellowstone National Park, Mike Belderrain stumbled into an area where, technically, the law couldn’t touch him.
The Review: Knocked Up
Sophie Gilbert, Megan Garber, and Hannah Giorgis discuss Hollywood and the way it depicts abortion (or doesn’t).
The Experiment Podcast: Fighting to Remember Mississippi Burning
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.
The Frenetic Basketball Nostalgia of Winning Time
Three basketball-loving writers discuss the first season of HBO’s controversial series about the 1980s Lakers.
The Experiment Podcast: Teenage Life After Genocide
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.
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.