‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Hits Hard in Covid-Era America

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. The Handmaid’s Tale’s gift is prescience. From Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book being a harbinger of the conservative politics of the Reagan era, to the Hulu show’s eerie echoes of Donald Trump’s presidency, […]