Folk Culture

We sat in a semicircle at the strip club, me between my six male friends, all of us damp from...

If you’re interested in modern beauty standards, the social value of femininity, and the fetishization of mothers in American culture,...

The trees have a job: to blush their leaves orange or red and then drop them to the lawns and...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...

After the Capitol riot was finally contained on January 6, 2021, Mitch McConnell spoke from the Senate floor in unambiguous...

Barack Obama was barely three minutes into his speech inside a Madison, Wisconsin, arena on Tuesday when he delivered his...

The biggest story in months about media and democracy wasn’t an article—it was the absence of one. The news broke...

With Election Day just over a week away, Kamala Harris is calling Donald Trump a fascist following reports revealing the...

It took 25 days, but in the early hours today, Israel responded to Iran’s salvo of missiles earlier this month....

Her father is back in the ER. His second time this month. The first was a short stay. After an...