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Getty; The Atlantic World War II’s Lesson for After the Pandemic
The U.S. needs another innovation dream team.
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Dean Chalkley / Camera Press / Redux What Quitters Understand About the Job Market
More Americans are telling their boss to shove it. Is the workplace undergoing a revolution—or just a post-pandemic spasm?
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Getty; The Atlantic BlackRock Is Not Ruining the U.S. Housing Market
The real villain isn’t a faceless Wall Street Goliath; it’s your neighbors and local governments stopping the construction of new units.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic Winners and Losers of the Work-From-Home Revolution
High-income workers at highly profitable companies will benefit greatly. Downtown landlords won’t.
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Getty / The Atlantic Why So Many Pandemic Predictions Failed
The mathematician Jordan Ellenberg discusses how geometry explains the world.
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The Atlantic / Getty Why You Should Wait Out the Wild Housing Market
Rising inventory is one of several signs that we may have reached peak ludicrousness.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Texas Mask Mystery
When the governor lifted the state’s mandate, liberals predicted disaster. But it never came. Why?
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ED JONES / AFP / Getty The CDC’s Big Mask Surprise Came Out of Nowhere
The agency’s communication strategy has lagged so consistently behind the research that it’s brought new meaning to the concept of “following the science.”
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Getty / The Atlantic 3 Explanations for the Vaccine Slowdown
Daily shots are plummeting. Why?
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking?
Feelings about the vaccine are intertwined with feelings about the pandemic.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic What ‘Taking the Pandemic Seriously’ Means Now
We need new laws, new policies, and new scientific processes to ensure that we never have to go through this again.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Are Outdoor Mask Mandates Still Necessary?
Governments need to give Americans an off-ramp to the post-pandemic world. Ending outdoor mask requirements would be a good place to start.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Deep Cleaning Isn’t a Victimless Crime
The CDC has finally said what scientists have been screaming for months: The coronavirus is overwhelmingly spread through the air, not via surfaces.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Truth About Georgia’s Voter Law
Georgia’s law unethically constricts the fundamental rights of democracy based on a lie. It’s drawn criticism from politicians and corporations that veers from righteous indignation to incoherence.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man
In a crowded field of wrongness, one person stands out: Alex Berenson.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic How mRNA Technology Could Change the World
mRNA’s story likely will not end with COVID-19: Its potential stretches far beyond this pandemic.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over
Even before the recent mass shootings, violent crime was surging to its highest rate in 30 years. Patrick Sharkey illuminates what’s happening.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Curious Case of Florida’s Pandemic Response
Liberals predicted that Florida would get destroyed by its laissez-faire approach to COVID-19. Conservatives said the state was the future of the economy. What if they were both wrong?
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Philip Cheung / The New York Times / … The Pandemic Mistake America Can’t Repeat
More, better, and faster testing might have averted the worst of what America faced in 2020.
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Joe Munroe / Hulton Archive / Getty / … ‘This Is Unprecedented’: Why America’s Housing Market Has Never Been Weirder
In America’s largest, richest cities, home prices and rents are going in opposite directions.
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