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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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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / … The Last Days of Loneliness
Long-term-care residents who have been confined to their rooms for months have to wait a bit longer before they can finally receive a vaccine.
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Brynn Anderson / AP White Suburbanites Won’t Be Enough in Georgia
Progressives’ message in the Senate runoffs could find traction in an unexpected place.
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Andy Abeyta / The Gazette / AP Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing
The story of the coronavirus in the state is one of government inaction in the name of freedom and personal responsibility.
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Jesse Rieser Democrats Have a Republican-Women Problem
Conservative women in America’s suburbs helped make Joe Biden president. Are they welcome in his party?
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The Atlantic The Democratic Truce Is Over
The battle for the party’s future has begun.
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Da'Shaunae Marisa Revenge of the Wine Moms
How anti-Trump women in America’s suburbs are ushering in a new era of political activism
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty What COVID-19 Families Hear When Trump Brags About His Strength
With each dismissive comment he makes about his own experience with the virus, the president minimizes the suffering of an ever-growing share of Americans.
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Getty The People Trump Came Home To
The president’s behavior threatens the very employees charged with taking care of him.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Democrats’ Supreme Court Hail Mary
This is the progressive case for court packing in a nutshell: “If your wallet is stolen, you don’t forgo efforts to recover it just because it might be stolen again.”
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