The highest court in America isn’t safe from mansplaining. A new set of rules for oral argument may change things.

The Atlantic’s Emma Green sits down with the editor-in-chief of Christian satire site the Babylon Bee to talk about mockery and the line between making fun and doing harm.

Phone-call fees from incarcerated people generate millions of dollars for states, but children pay the price.

Where does bodily autonomy end and our duty to others begin? In March, The Experiment considered one answer, the story of a 1905 Supreme Court case about government-mandated vaccines.

The short, uneven history of Black representation on television—from Julia to The Cosby Show to today’s “renaissance.”  

Grief, conspiracy theories, and a family’s search for meaning in the two decades since the attacks.

The Uyghur refugee Aséna Tahir Izgil escaped the genocide of her people in China. Now she’s trying to be a teenager in America.

USA Gymnastics has been undergoing a reckoning over widespread abuse. The Atlantic's Emma Green asks former gymnast Rachael Denhollander whether the sport can shake off that grim legacy.

The Texan writer Bryan Burrough set out to debunk the myth of the Alamo, only to find himself igniting a fierce ideological battle over the state's founding legend.