Conor Friedersdorf
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Christopher Griffin / Handout / Reuters America’s Shadow Death Row
The government does not exclusively kill people who are on death row. It condemns many to die by drone strike.
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Getty / The Atlantic Don’t Overreact to the Capitol Riots
While punishing insurrection, Americans should guard against the unjust and the counterproductive.
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Getty / The Atlantic America Is Paying the Price for Right-Wing Pandering
Many on the right still won’t acknowledge that Trump egged on his most deluded and dangerous supporters.
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SAUL LOEB / AFP / Getty My January 6 Nightmare
A lame duck’s deadly last hurrah
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Jonathan Twingley The Best Punishment for a Horrible Year
No one will miss 2020.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Public-Health Value of Speaking Plainly
An interview with the infectious-disease expert and community health provider Lisa Fitzpatrick
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Getty / The Atlantic Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox
He is the latest high-profile writer to abandon traditional media.
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The Atlantic The Death Toll of Donald Trump’s Delay Tactics
Tens of thousands may die between now and President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why California Rejected Racial Preferences, Again
A majority voted against repealing the state’s ban on affirmative action.
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ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty / The ... 5 Questions for Undecided Voters
Instead of focusing solely on how the candidates would behave in the Oval Office, consider how each man is likely to inspire others to behave.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Should the Professional Be Political?
A Silicon Valley controversy raises questions about the role of activism in the workplace.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Trump Failed the 3 A.M. Test
Don’t let him answer another call.
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The Atlantic How Princeton Opened Itself to the Ultimate Troll
Why the left and the right are exaggerating the racism of the Ivy League institution.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Fight Against Words That Sound Like, but Are Not, Slurs
Colleges are torn apart when faculty are punished and publicly vilified for accidentally giving offense.
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TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP / Getty Democratic Change Still Works
Police reform can be achieved through the electoral process.
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The Atlantic ‘Please Don’t Convert to Whiteness’
The history professor Johann N. Neem, an immigrant from India, feels as though he is losing his country.
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D. Corson / ClassicStock / Getty Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart
What a viral story reveals about contemporary leftist discourse
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Laura Moss / The New York Times / ... The Princeton Faculty’s Anti-Free-Speech Demands
Some of the signers of a controversial open letter don’t stand behind its most alarming demand.
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Ray Howard / AP Purity Politics Makes Nothing Happen
Forging a right-left coalition may be the only way to end the drug war.
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Erin Patrice O’Brien / Redux The Chilling Effect of an Attack on a Scholar
Steven Pinker will be fine, but a letter from his critics signals less powerful scholars that certain opinions, publicly stated, could result in professional sanction.
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