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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters The Headlines We Left Hanging
The Atlantic published a lot of stories in January 2017. Here’s how a few turned out.
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Toby Melville / Reuters What Makes Historical Fiction Great?
There’s no one right way to approach the truth in fiction.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Art of the Interview
It’s not that different from a cocktail party.
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Gabriela Riccardi / The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates: An Annotated Interview
The Masthead editors reflect on the most thought-provoking moments from our call. A full transcript is attached.
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The Nixon Library and Museum / Reuters The Other Time a President Went to War with the Media
The archives of The Atlantic preserve a tense moment in amber.
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Sergio Perez / Reuters Long-Lasting Picks from a Fast-Moving News Cycle
An experiment in reading on a tight time budget.
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Paul Marotta / Getty Images What We’ll Ask Ta-Nehisi Coates
We’ve collected Atlantic readers’ comments about his work.
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NASA / Reuters Growing Up in the America of 1968
What was it like to be 12 years old? Or 24 years old?
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Rommel Demano / Getty How Memes Became the Voice of a Generation
The founder of Know Your Meme on the strengths of meme culture
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Gabriela Riccardi / Atlantic In Preparation for Our Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Here’s a Ta-Nehisi syllabus… and your homework.
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Fuse / Getty Will Technology Change the Abortion Debate?
In the U.S., abortion laws are based on when a fetus is “viable.” But technology keeps changing what that means.
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Darren Staples / Reuters How to Fact Check The Atlantic
“Our pieces seek to be thought-provoking and interesting, but to be truly insightful, they must be right.”
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Mohamed Azakir / Reuters What It Means To Be Spiritual But Not Religious
One in five Americans reject organized religion, but maintain some kind of faith.
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Could the U.S. Have a Truth Commission for #MeToo?
It might work, and it wouldn’t be America’s first truth commission.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The History of 'Fake News' in America
Fake news isn’t new in America. Objective news is.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The America That Ended in 1968
“There is a sense that nowhere is safe, no one is safe, no thing is safe. Everything is up for change.”
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Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters A Brief Modern History of Protest in Iran
A civil rights movement has grown up despite repeated crack-downs.
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters For Sexual Harassment Victims, the Courtroom is the Last Resort
Victims have to surrender their agency when they go to trial.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters How Politics Becomes Polarized
“Racial polarization is an outcome of politics, not the cause.”
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Thomas Peter/Reuters The Masthead Issues We Loved Most
We asked members and Atlantic staff to choose their favorite stories from 2017.
