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Photo-illustration by Paul Spella* What Porn Taught a Generation of Women
It colored our ambitions, our sense of self, our relationships, our bodies, our work, and our art.
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Illustration by Rose Wong Grandparents Are Reaching Their Limit
Older Americans might be doing more child care than ever.
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Arielle Bobb-Willis for The Atlantic Dwyane Wade’s Greatest Challenge
The Hall of Famer reached the highest heights of the basketball world. Now he’s figuring out the type of man and father he wants to be.
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Illustration by Ricardo Tomás. Sources: Smith Collection / … I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
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Brandstaetter / Getty How Leonard Bernstein Changed the Canon
In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.
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Dina Litovsky for The Atlantic When I’m 84
The world still needs Ringo Starr.
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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic* The Curse of Ayn Rand’s Heir
Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?
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Moises Saman for The Atlantic Can One Man Hold Syria Together?
A former jihadist has remade himself in a bid to remake a scarred and divided country.
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Zack Wittman for The Atlantic Why Aren’t Women Allowed to Play Baseball?
Women have always loved America’s pastime. It has never loved them back.
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Photograph by Jake Dockins for The Atlantic His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade
A visit with a family in mourning
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Lila Barth for The Atlantic Turtleboy Will Not Be Stopped
A profane blogger believes an innocent woman is being framed for murder. He’ll do anything to prove he’s right—and terrorize anyone who says he’s wrong.
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Illustration by Kimberly Elliott Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.
I knew that becoming a parent would change me—but I had no idea how.
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Ron Galella / Getty Growing Up Murdoch
James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire
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Javier Jaén How Progressives Froze the American Dream
The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
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An Rong Xu for The Atlantic The Man in the Midnight-Blue Six-Ply Italian-Milled Wool Suit
A perfect suit, made by an expert tailor out of superlative fabric, would do nothing less than transform me.
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Illustration by Jan Robert Dünnweller* A Novelist Who Looks Into the Dark
Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.
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Illustration by Federico Tramonte They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then They Did Something Really Crazy.
The childhood friends behind the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in American history
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Illustration by Nicolás Ortega. Sources: Kevin Liles / … The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
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Illustration by Max Guther The Anti-Social Century
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
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Gabriella Demczuk / Reuters The Rise of John Ratcliffe
A partisan loyalist with a history of politicizing intelligence will soon be running the CIA.
