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Mara Truog / 13 Photo / Redux Guess How Many People Worked From Home Last Year
A misconception about the prevalence of remote work explains a lot about confirmation bias in America.
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Sergio Flores / Getty Is This How Democrats Break Their Midterm Curse?
Most Democrats don’t approve of Texas’s new abortion ban. But they hope it may help them gin up voter enthusiasm.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters When the Refugees Landed
Evacuees from Afghanistan filed out of the airport security checkpoint quietly, a few groups every 20 minutes: men in beige waistcoats, veiled women with curly-haired babies, toddlers clutching juice boxes.
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Courtesy of Elaine Godfrey; The Atlantic The Year of Postponed Grief
Sixteen months after my grandmother died, my family finally gathered to bury her.
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty What the Ohio Special Election Actually Means
The Democratic primary became a proxy war between progressives and the establishment. But the outcome doesn’t tell us much about the party’s future.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty Republicans Refuse to Reckon With January 6
Just as striking as the officers’ testimony today is GOP lawmakers’ refusal to engage with it.
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Lauren Tamaki How a Rising Trump Critic Lost Her Nerve
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina hoped to be the face of a post-Trump GOP. She soon learned there is no such thing.
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Alex Merto The Democrats Are Already Losing the Next Election
Eight months after the 2020 election, Democrats don’t agree on what they’ve learned.
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Joe Raedle / Getty / The Atlantic The Democrats’ New Trump Problem
Can the party win without the former president in the White House? Virginia’s upcoming elections could provide the answer.
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Eugène Delacroix / Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Rural Pandemic Isn’t Ending
Public-health leaders in rural America are turning toward the next and more difficult stage of the nationwide vaccination campaign: persuasion.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Returning to Normal Means Recalibrating My Brain
The pandemic’s retreat doesn’t necessarily mean life will get easier for people with OCD.
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Mel Cole What It’s Like When Racism Comes for You
She’d never been attacked for being Asian American. The pandemic changed that.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Texas’s Disaster Is Over. The Fallout Is Just Beginning.
Will Republican officials in the state pay a price for the recent blackouts?
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Mario Tama / Getty Iowans Were Scared Into Taking the Virus Seriously
Contrary to health experts’ predictions, the state did not see a huge post-holiday spike in COVID-19 cases.
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Todd Heisler / The New York Times / … The Sound of Silence
The quiet in the streets of D.C. today was a fitting end to the noisiest political era many Americans can remember.
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Tavon Taylor Among the Guardsmen
Blocks from the Capitol, residents and business owners must pass through military checkpoints to go about their day.
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Getty / The Atlantic Deep Cleaning the White House Isn’t Really Necessary
The key to guaranteeing staffers’ health and well-being is relatively simple.
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Bloomberg / Getty Pramila Jayapal Is ‘Next-Level’ Angry
The congresswoman tested positive for COVID-19 after sheltering with Republicans who refused to wear masks.
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Shay Horse / NurPhoto / Getty It Was Supposed to Be So Much Worse
And the threat to the U.S. government hasn’t passed.
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Bill Clark / Getty Republicans Meet Their Monster
The politicians who have enabled Trump did not expect the president’s followers to ever break through the glass windows of the Capitol and ascend the Senate dais.
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