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You Slap Me in the Face, I'll Slap You Right Back'
5+ hour, 48+ min ago (1610+ words) Nancy Pelosi on gerrymandering, the midterms, and her 39 years in Congress...
Atlantic Trivia: Marriage, That Blessed Arrangement
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (101+ words) Atlantic Trivia, June 15, 2026: Marriage, That Blessed Arrangement The Atlantic Test your knowledge'and read our stories for a little extra help. This week's trivia comes from the July issue of The Atlantic, and marriage is what gathers us here today. Honor…...
A Turning Point for Conservative Women
1+ week, 1+ day ago (268+ words) Some sounded vaguely feminist; another doesn't want women to vote Before each speaker took the podium at Turning Point USA's annual Women's Leadership Summit to advise feminine gentleness in all situations, tall columns of magenta smoke blasted from both ends…...
Becoming a Perfect Wife, by Any Means Necessary
2+ week, 6+ day ago (150+ words) The Testaments, Hulu's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, is more than a little skeptical about hyper-domesticity. Read: Slouching toward Gilead The nation's patriarchal values are baked into its school curriculum. Instead of English, science, and math, the Plums learn subjects…...
The Night My Marriage Fell Apart
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1528+ words) In the span of about 20 minutes, I lost my wife, my best friend, and my grip on life. Finding it again took a lot longer. The fall before I'd gone to France, I'd been raking our yard, which was mammoth…...
Mary Cassatt Was a Radical
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (185+ words) The Atlantic Before she became Mother's Day's safest painter, she was an artistic visionary whose concerns were political. Among the jailed protesters was the painter Lee Krasner, who in the subsequent decade would play a central role in the Abstract…...
The Most Tortured Relationship in America
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (271+ words) Monogamy is one of the last bipartisan ideals'even if people struggle to live up to it. Only one behavior, in fact, received near-unanimous disapproval: infidelity. Ninety percent of Americans said that a married person having an affair is morally wrong,…...
The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn't as Bad as You've Heard'It's Worse
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (255+ words) Humanity is set to start shrinking several decades ahead of schedule. By about 2084, according to the gold-standard United Nations "World Population Prospects," the global population will officially begin its decline. Rich countries will all have become like Japan, stagnant and…...
Maybe You'll Never Really Know Who You're Marrying
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (86+ words) The fear of commitment transforms The Drama from a romance into a horror story. The following contains spoilers for the film The Drama. Read: What we lost when we lost rom-coms Read: Why marriage survives The fear of commitment transforms…...
The Endless Goodbye
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (570+ words) More than a decade before my dad died, I lost him to dementia. "It is what it is," my dad would say, which meant, in my mind, that we were all about to endure something awful as the price of…...