Megan Garber

What happens when private pain, public compassion, and the risk of exploitation blur

The more turbulent the times, the more tempting it is to [gesture around at everything].

On Netflix’s hit dating show, stealth misogyny gets its big reveal.

The show, which deeply empathizes with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, is ultimately just a paparazzo by other means.

The Bachelorette promoted Taylor Frankie Paul as a new kind of heroine. Then reality got in the way.

Everyone wants a happy outcome. But sometimes, the greatest relief is any ending at all.

With the rise of screen culture, all the world has stage fright.

Staff writer Megan Garber and Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic’s executive editor, discuss Garber’s new book, Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency.

They came. They posed. They conquered.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has avoided a midlife crisis for good reason: It’s a timeless portrait of popularity and truthiness.