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Helen Lewis

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
8
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Sep 9, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
Top 10K sites
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Helen Lewis

    Mothers for Sale (opens the original)

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    When Shoshannah Roberts talks about the four babies she’s given away, she glows. “When I think about it now, it still feels emotional,” she told me. “Those moments are so magical.” For many women, the thought of handing over a newborn to someone else is almost incomprehensible—they feel a deep revulsion at a primal sundering. But for Roberts, acting as a surrogate four times is the most meaningful thing she has done with her life. “I’ve seen the parents hold their babies right away, skin to skin

  2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Helen Lewis

    The Jason Arday Truthers (opens the original)

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    In death, Jason Arday has become two people. To many readers of legacy newspapers, the late Cambridge University academic is a proven fabulist. The life story on which he built his career, of being nonverbal until 11 because of autism, and then learning to read at 18 and becoming a professor, has “no precedent in medical literature,” as The New York Times delicately put it. Among many other extraordinary claims, his tale of being menaced by a knife-wielding man at Cambridge could not be corrobor

  3. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Helen Lewis

    Enes Kanter Freedom Obviously Doesn’t Belong in the WNBA (opens the original)

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    Why shouldn’t Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White play women’s basketball? The answer is simple: They’re not female. By all evidence, the two former NBA players have XY chromosomes—White has fathered children—and have been through male puberty. They have significant athletic advantages over female athletes and should not be eligible for the WNBA. To reach this conclusion, I don’t need to peer into the pair’s souls to see whether they’re pink or blue, nor do I need to decide whether they are sinc

  4. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Helen Lewis

    AOC Knows a Lemon When She Sees One (opens the original)

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    Last night, Francesca Hong lost the race to be the Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin. This is great news for American democracy. Sorry if that seems harsh—she certainly ran an energetic campaign and came close to winning the nomination—but Hong was a profoundly flawed candidate in an important race. Even the leaders of her own faction of the Democratic Party recognized it, and stayed away: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders apparently know a lemon when they see one. Her nar

  5. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Helen Lewis

    Joe Rogan’s New British Crush (opens the original)

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    This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Americans have two stereotypes of Britain. The first is the cozy, parochial world portrayed in my country’s biggest cultural exports—the “soggy bottoms” of The Great British Baking Show, the boarding-school backdrop of Harry Potter, the aristocratic deference valorized by Downton Abbey. The second, now promoted by a zillion MAGA podcasts, is a postapocalyptic hellscape of sclerotic socialism, repressed spee

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