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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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Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty The Surprising Key to Combatting Vaccine Refusal
It’s not just one problem—and we’re going to need a portfolio of approaches to solve it.
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Getty / The Atlantic COVID-19 Cases Are Dropping Fast. Why?
Four reasons: social distancing, seasonality, seroprevalence, and shots.
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Jon Cherry / The New York Times / … 3 Million Vaccine Shots a Day
Averting a wave of new COVID-19 fatalities could require some dramatic, untested, and controversial strategies.
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Chris McGrath / Getty Hygiene Theater Is Still a Huge Waste of Time
Too many people imagine the fight against COVID-19 as a land war to be waged with sudsy hand-to-hand combat against grimy surfaces.
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The Atlantic The GameStop Story You Think You Know Is Wrong
Reddit investors are not new populists descended from the radicals of Occupy Wall Street.
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Getty / The Atlantic Superstar Cities Are in Trouble
The past year has offered a glimpse of the nowhere-everywhere future of work, and it isn’t optimistic for big cities.
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The Atlantic The Whole Messy, Ridiculous GameStop Saga in One Sentence
How to understand what the hell is going on this week
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Christopher Lee / The New York Times / … The Truth About Kids, School, and COVID-19
We’ve known for months that young children are less susceptible to serious infection and less likely to transmit the coronavirus. Let’s act like it.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden Should Go Big, Fast, and Simple
The new president must not repeat Obama's mistakes.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Meaning of Trump’s Mass Cancellation
This is how the president’s term ends—with the GOP dithering and CEOs swashbuckling, spared by the “deep state” but impeached in the free market.
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / Getty The Deep Story of Trumpism
Thinking about the Republican Party like a political psychiatrist
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Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The Atlantic We’re Never Going Back to the 1950s
The year 2020 shattered America’s shared reality.
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Seb Agresti How Civilization Broke Our Brains
What can hunter-gatherer societies teach us about work, time, and happiness?
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Getty / The Atlantic American Elites Still Don’t Understand How COVID-19 Works
Nine months into the pandemic, government leaders can’t comprehend—or refuse to clearly say—what this virus is or how it spreads.
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The Atlantic What Will Happen to Cities in 2021
Sifting through today’s clues to forecast the future
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Go Nakamura/Getty Go Home Now
U.S. COVID-19 statistics are about to look better—even though the reality is almost certainly getting worse. It’s time to hibernate.
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