Jacob Stern
Can a Boxer Return to the Ring After Killing?
In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself.
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Katie Martin / Jo Imperio / The Atlantic; … Fish Oil Is Good! No, Bad! No, Good! No, Wait
Americans love it. But the science is getting even weirder.
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Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty 100 Degrees Fahrenheit Is Just a Number
But it sure feels bad.
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Yui Mok / Getty The World Is Burning Once Again
We can only adapt so much to extreme heat.
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Getty; The Atlantic Admit It, Squirrels Are Just Tree Rats
So why do we love one rodent and hate the other?
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Ben Birchall / PA Images / Getty Don’t Worry, It’s Not COVID
Some tips for how to be a good sick person in the COVID era, whatever is ailing you
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Please Ignore My Last 577 Tweets
I’m not selling NFTs.
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University of Chicago Institute of Politics; The Atlantic Obama: I Underestimated the Threat of Disinformation
Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg in conversation with Barack Obama about the social web, Ukraine, and the future of democracy
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Christof Stache / AFP / Getty Is Ukraine Barreling Toward a COVID Surge?
War is creating the perfect conditions for an outbreak.
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Getty; The Atlantic Endemicity Is Meaningless
The coronavirus will be with us forever. But we still have no idea what happens next.
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Getty; The Atlantic Sports Leagues Are Showing Us Just How Bad Omicron Could Get
Even some of the healthiest and most highly vaccinated communities in the country are being ravaged by the new variant.
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Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty We Accidentally Solved the Flu. Now What?
America has a choice to make.
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Richard Pierrin / Getty All These Simultaneous Disasters Are Messing With Our Brains
The earthquakes and wildfires and wars keep piling up. When does our empathy run out?
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Bettmann / Getty That Other Reason You Might Feel Terrible Right Now
Please don’t forget: It’s allergy season.
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Leonid Keller There Is No One Pandemic Anniversary
There are millions of them.
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Nate Lewis The Victims Left Behind by Genetic Genealogy
An Atlantic analysis of more than 100 cases using this powerful new policing tool found only four involving a homicide with a Black victim.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Random People Are Lining Up to Get Vaccinated in D.C. Grocery Stores
Pharmacies have started quietly offering leftover COVID-19 shots to anyone around. You can guess where this goes.
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Photos of California’s Suffocating Smoke
A photographer rushed home to California to capture scenes from a historic fire season.
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Noah Berger / AP Two Disasters Are Exponentially Worse Than One
Californians face an impossible choice between virus safety and fire safety.
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Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty A Mental-Health Crisis Is Burning Across the American West
Each fire season can compound the trauma of the one before it.
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Soomin Jung This Is Not a Normal Mental-Health Disaster
If SARS is any lesson, the psychological effects of the novel coronavirus will long outlast the pandemic itself.
