Daniel Engber
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Kyodo News / Getty The Lab Leak Will Haunt Us Forever
Each new revelation is a reminder of how little is actually known.
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Getty: The Atlantic The Good News About Vaccine Hesitancy
America can’t shake the feeling that vaccination rates are about to plummet. The facts say otherwise.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Case for ‘Kraken’
Any name for the coronavirus is better than a jumble of letters and numbers.
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Alamy; The Atlantic Is Food Getting Better?
The Thanksgivings of yore featured overcooked turkeys and Jell-O salad. Surely we’ve evolved.
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Evelyn Dragan / Connected Archives Why Is Everyone Stealing Parrots?
It’s a weirdly common crime—and, commonly, a weird one.
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Pablo Delcan and Río Delcan La Rocca Why Is Dad So Mad?
A father dares to explore his rage.
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Getty; The Atlantic Sorry, I Lied About Fake News
A false tweet really does move faster than the truth.
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Getty; The Atlantic Joe Rogan’s Show May Be Dumb. But Is It Actually Deadly?
Nothing seems to move the needle on Americans’ vaccine convictions, no matter how beneficial or harmful.
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The Atlantic Daily: The Biggest Reason to Worry About Omicron
The Omicron variant is already here, and it’s spreading fast. Here’s what you need to know.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Lab-Leak Theory Meets Its Perfect Match
Both pandemic-origin arguments depend on coincidence.
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Alec Soth / Magnum for The Atlantic A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
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The Atlantic The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier
A new leaked document is stirring up another frenzy over the pandemic’s origins. What does it really tell us?
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Getty; The Atlantic Vaccination in America Might Have Only One Tragic Path Forward
COVID-19 vaccination rates have fallen off a cliff. Will it take a deadly summer surge to change things?
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Illustration by Kensuke Koike; Bettmann / Getty Edgar Allan Poe’s Other Obsession
Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science.
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Getty; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Don’t Fall for These Lab-Leak Traps
Recent coverage of the pandemic’s origins has ensnared readers in semantic quibbles, side points, and distractions.
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jarun011 / Getty; Katie Martin / The Atlantic If the Lab-Leak Theory Is Right, What’s Next?
We know enough to acknowledge that the scenario is possible, and we should therefore act as though it’s true.
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Getty / The Atlantic America Is Now in the Hands of the Vaccine-Hesitant
A subset of Americans haven’t yet made up their mind about getting a COVID-19 shot. Whether they turn out in the coming weeks will determine the future of the pandemic.
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Kevin Van Aelst The Sugar Wars
Science can’t prove it and the industry denies it, but Gary Taubes is convinced that the sweet stuff kills.
