The Future of Abortion in a Post-Roe America
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May 2022
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Preparing for the end of Roe, Europe’s ex-royals, tour guides to a tragedy, and how social media shattered society. Plus Winslow Homer, the myth of the liberal world order, a new history of WWII, ending mom guilt, the price of privacy, and more.
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Burying a Burning
The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask.
Among Europe’s Ex-Royals
What do the descendants of dethroned monarchs have to offer the continent in the 21st century?
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The Melville of American Painting
In a new exhibit, Winslow Homer, once seen as the oracle of the nation’s innocence, is recast as a poet of conflict.
Dispatches
Oliver Munday There Is No Liberal World Order
Unless democracies defend themselves, the forces of autocracy will destroy them.
Katie Martin The End of Mom Guilt
Why a mother’s ambition is good for her family
Chauncey Hare Under the Fluorescent Lights
Chauncey Hare captured the drudgery of office life in order to protest it.
Culture & Critics
Paul Spella Have We Lost Patience for Prestige TV?
Better Call Saul is dazzling, and frustrating.
Illustration by John Whitlock* A New History of World War II
A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire.
Dadu Shin Sex for Art’s Sake
Elif Batuman’s curious experiment in fiction
Rodrigo Corral The Price of Privacy
Who gets to keep a secret in a hyperconnected world?
Departments
Katie Martin The Commons: The Satisfaction Trap
Readers respond to our March 2022 cover story and more.
Tim Lahan An Ode to Hotel Rooms
The smells, the sounds, the bodywash
Poetry
Gabriela Pesqueira
