Ideas

Collage of photographs of Karen Batchelor's ancestors and a certificate of induction in the DAR.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Courtesy of Karen Batchelor; Education Images / Universal Images Group / Getty.

The Black Women Changing the DAR

More and more women of color are joining the 136-year-old organization.

Black-and-white illustration of black redactions, Jeffrey Epstein, Jean-Luc Brunel, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ghislaine Maxwell, and various emails and government documents
Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: Department of Justice; Rick Friedman / Corbis / Getty; Mark Mainz / Getty; Reuters.

The Epstein Spectrum

A moral exercise in a moral desert

Columns lining a long marble hallway with skylights and chandeliers
Heinrich Hoffmann / ullstein bild / Getty

Hitler’s Edifice Complex

He was obsessed with adding an expensive new wing to the Reich chancellery, part of his grandiose architectural ambitions for the nation’s capital.