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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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.
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Koya79/ Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Is the FaceTime Haircut Here to Stay?
Out-of-work hairstylists, acupuncturists, and even plumbers are seeing clients online. The transition hasn’t always been easy.
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Gregg Vigliotti / The New York Times The Social-Distance Vigilantes in a Massachusetts Senior Home
Residents are asking their neighbors to tell on one another.
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David Becker / Stringer / Getty ‘Storm Area 51’ Could Be a Disaster for Lincoln County
The Facebook event may have started in jest, but local officials are bracing for mayhem.
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NASA Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Behaving Strangely
For a time, it looked as though the planet’s defining feature might be on the verge of extinction.
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NASA One Small Controversy About Neil Armstrong’s Giant Leap
When, exactly, did the astronaut set foot on the moon? No one knows.
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