Graeme Wood
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Culture Club / Getty / The Atlantic Why the UAE Made Peace With Israel
WhatsApp diplomacy seems to have worked for the Trump administration.
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AP / The Atlantic The Families of ISIS’s Victims Are Asking for Justice
The Trump administration faces a choice on how to proceed against two men.
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Courtesy of Disney Parks / The Atlantic I Went to Disney World
As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged Florida, the Magic Kingdom welcomed back its most loyal subjects—and me.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Cowardice of Open Letters
They’re badly written, open to doubt, and fundamentally unnecessary.
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The Atlantic Yale Doesn’t Need to Change Its Name
The name of the university has long been divorced in meaning from the life of Elihu Yale, who dealt in enslaved people.
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Mark Peterson / Redux John Bolton Tries to Recover His Dignity
In his new memoir, the former national security adviser assesses and defends his time in the Trump administration.
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Getty / The Atlantic The United States is Now in the Midst of an Extended Moral Holiday
When the going gets tough, the law gets suspended
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Getty / The Atlantic A Solution to the Confederate-Monument Problem
Destroying the statues won’t erase the past. Why not let them deteriorate in a public space instead?
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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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