Graeme Wood
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Jerry Holt / Star Tribune / Getty How Do You Kneel on a Neck for Nine Minutes?
I don’t see how anyone could remain in that position unless he was, at best, totally indifferent to the person’s survival.
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Getty / The Atlantic What’s Behind the COVID-19 Racial Disparity?
Outrage is warranted. But outrage unaccompanied by analysis is a danger in itself.
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Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS via Getty The Best Shaming Happens in Private
Internet mobs go after those who break social-distancing rules, but society has a better way to enforce norms.
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Eve Arnold / Magnum There’s No Simple Way to Reopen Universities
How do you operate institutions designed to mix people and ideas without also mixing viruses?
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Timothy Fadek / Redux Doctors Are Holding Up Their End of the Bargain. Society Is Not.
Sending health-care workers into hospitals with too few masks is a betrayal akin to sending soldiers into battle without armor.
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Leah Mills / Reuters The WHO Defunding Move Isn’t What It Seems
Trump is yet again attempting to distract the public from his own failures.
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YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP / GETTY Think 168,000 Ventilators Is Too Few? Try Three.
The coronavirus has been slow to spread across Africa. But a wave may soon hit, and health-care workers are bracing for disaster.
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FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty COVID-19 Vaccines Are Coming, but They’re Not What You Think
These novel approaches could fail in many ways.
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Leah Mills / Reuters The ‘Chinese Virus’ Is a Test. Don’t Fail It.
You should be more offended by Trump’s incompetence than by his attempt to racialize the pandemic.
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Ebrahim Noroozi / AP Where Is Iran’s Supreme Leader?
Senior leaders are sick with the coronavirus.
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Essam al-Sudani / Reuters Iran Has Far More Coronavirus Cases Than It Is Letting On
The surprising number of Iranian government officials succumbing to COVID-19 offers a hint that the disease is far more widespread than the official statistics indicate.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Upside to Having an Old President
As presidents slow down, more decisions get made by other people.
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Wana News Agency / Reuters Coronavirus Could Break Iranian Society
The government has refused to impose quarantines and is encouraging people to visit the city of Qom, the center of the outbreak.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Americans Are Suckers for a Certain Kind of Grifter
For a time, Michael Avenatti fulfilled the left’s most destructive psychological needs—much as Donald Trump has done for the right.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters John Bolton Knows What He’s Doing
The former national security adviser’s secrets are valuable, and will come at a cost.
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Pool / Reuters Mohammed bin Salman Tests America’s Ability to Forgive
The crown prince, who is accused of hacking Jeff Bezos’s phone, may presume that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is strong enough to withstand another disturbing act.
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Associated Press Why Journalists Believe Mary Louise Kelly
Mike Pompeo’s dig about not finding Ukraine on a map undermines his credibility.
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Handout / Reuters How Stressed Is Iran?
The Iranian people are, for the first time in decades, worried about whether the leaders who have been their captors are not also their protectors.
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AP Two Questions to Ask Now That Qassem Soleimani Is Dead
The real questions are not of morality (did he have it coming?) but of timing.
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Simon Dawson / Reuters The Cure for Ultraviolence
The cases of Usman Khan and Lisa Marie Smith point to the problems with deradicalization.
