Emma Green

The famous professor has found himself out of step with cancel culture and the search for political purity among progressives.

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

The reporter Jonathan Katz explains how he wrestled with the sins of U.S. interventions abroad—and what to call them.

Gymnast Rachael Denhollander is one of many people who can no longer watch the Olympics with casual enjoyment.

Emily Oster caters to a data-obsessed crowd of modern parents. But sometimes you just can’t optimize your kid.

Father James Martin isn’t quick to call out bias against his faith. But sometimes people go too far.

The former senator from Tennessee famously clashed with President Donald Trump. After two years of silence, he still thinks his party is the future.

Justice Stephen Breyer hasn’t retired yet. But filling Supreme Court seats is just one battle in a war over the judiciary—one that progressives worry they’re losing.

“Every single Christian of color who is proximate to evangelical spaces gets called everything but a child of God. And that’s just part of the work.”

Bill Haslam, the former governor of Tennessee, tries to figure out how evangelical politics got so extreme.

“The numbers have dropped, but the trauma has not.” One of America’s foremost pastors reflects on religion, race, and the pandemic.

The nearly 93-year-old sex therapist has survived a lot of trauma. But she’s ready to get back to normal life.

Lecrae, a major Christian rapper, found his religion in a culture where evangelicalism and politics were tightly tied. When he realized he couldn’t live with that anymore, the consequences were devastating.

White evangelicals have become the most powerful voting bloc in America, one church mailing list at a time. But is the cost of political victory too high?

Former Representative Will Hurd is trying to make the Republican Party more competitive—and more moderate. Can he succeed?

‘When vaccinated adults refuse to see friends indoors, they’re working through the trauma of the past year.’

Progressive communities have been home to some of the fiercest battles over COVID-19 policies, and some liberal policy makers have left scientific evidence behind.

Ross Douthat and Michelle Goldberg return to the podcast to debate the future of abortion in America.

Many Americans would recognize the dilemma of Reuven, an anonymous Yiddish-magazine editor who is anguished by his community’s moral failures in the pandemic.

America’s second-ever Catholic president supports abortion rights, leaving the bishops unsure about how to move forward.