Isabel Fattal
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AP The Family Weekly: Inheriting the Past, Facing the Future
Highlights from this week’s coverage on relationships and family life -
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Winslow Townson / AP The Family Weekly
Highlights from this week’s coverage on relationships and family life
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AP The Family Weekly: Welcome to The Atlantic's Family Section
Highlights from this week’s coverage on relationships and family life
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters The Forever Aftermath of a Mass Shooting
Americans affected by gun violence talk about trauma, grieving, and intermittent hope.
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David Goldman / AP My Life Since the 2015 Emanuel AME Church Shooting: Melvin Graham's Story
“Churches. Concerts. Where can you go that you're not going to be the victim of mass violence? And schools. What's left?”
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Rick Bowmer / AP My Life Since the 2012 Sandy Hook Shooting: Alissa Parker's Story
“The way I parented changed, and the way I saw the world. It’s taken some time to see the balance again—that it’s not so bleak and hopeless, that there is so much goodness to be seen.”
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Jessica Hill / AP My Life Since the 2012 Sandy Hook Shooting: Scarlett Lewis's Story
“I decided following Jesse’s murder that I would take my part of the responsibility for what happened to my son.”
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Chris Keane / Reuters My Life Since the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting: Lisa Hamp's Story
“In four years my daughter goes to kindergarten. What if I don’t have confidence that she’s safe?”
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Eric Gay / AP My Life Since the 1999 Columbine Shooting: Heather Martin's Story
“Sometimes it’s really hard for me to connect with people who lost loved ones, because I keep thinking, ‘I’m the living reminder.’”
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Gerald Herbert / AP My Life Since the 1992 Simon's Rock Shooting
“It’s easy to feel like Americans will just never give up their guns.”
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters What Will the Nationwide School Walkouts Accomplish?
They won't immediately prompt congressional action on gun control, but they’re vital to activists' momentum.
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Lynne Sladky / AP Why DeVos's Parkland Visit Failed
Many students criticized the secretary of education for what they saw as a short and insincere visit.
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MediaPunch / AP The Power of Grief-Fueled Activism
The Parkland students’ turn to political action may seem fast—but protest can be an important expression of grief.
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Wilfredo Lee / AP Another School Shooting—But Who’s Counting?
Seventeen people were killed in an attack on Wednesday. America’s inability to track gun violence is standing in the way of preventing the next one.
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Charlie Riedel / AP How to Parent an Olympic Athlete
A new book gathers tips from a town that’s sent a competitor to almost every Winter Olympics for the past 30 years.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What Trump Didn't Say About Education
Experts aren’t surprised by the president’s failure to mention it in his State of the Union.
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Peter Thomas Ryan How Should Atheism Be Taught?
The endowment of the country’s first college chair for the study of the subject draws attention to the complexity of nonbelief in America today.
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wavebreakmedia / Skylines / Porfang / Shutterstock / ... Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents?
Children’s shows often use non-standard dialects to voice the "bad guys," sending a dangerous message to kids about diversity.
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Patrick Semansky / AP 9 Charts That Show What Education in America Is Like in 2017
Compelling visuals on the key issues of the past year
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Jessica Hill / AP Must-Read Education Stories From 2017
A roundup of The Atlantic’s coverage on schools, learning, and everything in between
