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Mark Schafer / HBO / Everett Collection Eight Perfect Episodes of TV
Picks from Girls, The X-Files, SpongeBob, and more
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suteishi / Getty Rock On, Readers
Some hall-of-fame responses about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Biden’s Tarnished Legacy
He failed to grasp both the political moment and the essential mission of his presidency.
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Andrew Lichtenstein /Corbis / Getty How Solitude Is Rewiring American Identity
A conversation with Derek Thompson on how social isolation is affecting both happiness and civic life
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Scott Olson / Getty Foreign Leaders Face the Trump Test
His approach to global relations is already putting leaders in a difficult position.
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Photo by Rebecca Noble / Getty Trump’s Rule-Breaking Keeps Working
His comeback can be attributed to his keen understanding of the nebulous nature of rules.
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Keren Su / China Span / Alamy A Novel to Help You Slow Down
Culture and entertainment musts from Kristen V. Brown
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chuchart duangdaw / Getty Coffee’s Grip on America
Inflation hardly hampered Americans’ love of buying the beverage.
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Duane Prokop / Getty The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Should Not Exist
A bad idea gets worse every year.
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IPGGutenbergUKLtd / Getty The Controversy Over Baby Names
Annual baby-name lists don’t always stir the pot, but last year’s did.
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Mary Kang for The Washington Post via Getty … How the Ugly Shoe Got Chic
Clog, meet runway.
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Illustration by Joanne Joo The Best Movies, TV Shows, and Books of 2024
Spend time with our writers’ and editors’ picks.
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TCD / Prod.DB / Alamy The Ideal Mental-Reset Movie
Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days demands your full attention.
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Allstar Picture Library Limited / Alamy Star Trek’s Cold War
While America was fighting on the ground, the Federation was fighting in space.
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Album / British Library / Alamy The Most Haunting—And Most Inspiring—Moment in A Christmas Carol
This year, forgo despair and listen to Jacob Marley.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty American Politics Has an Age Problem
At its core, this is an issue of honesty.
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The Atlantic Twelve Stories You Won’t Want to Miss
Spend some time with our list of popular reads from 2024.
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Joe Raedle / Getty The Limits of the GOP Trifecta
A conversation with Russell Berman about Congress’s chaotic week
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Andrew Harnik / Getty The GOP Is Treating Musk Like He’s in Charge
This week, the world’s richest person solidified his influence over American politics.
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Annaspoka / Getty Why Online Returns Are a Hassle Now
Getting your money back is not as simple as it used to be.
