Jacob Stern
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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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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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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Tim Clayton / Corbis / Getty The Stubborn Culture of Harassment in America’s Medical Schools
A Yale cardiologist accused of sexual misconduct received one of the university’s highest honors, and the aftermath has revealed how much power men still have in academic medicine.
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Damian Dovarganes / AP Tracking Down a Catastrophic Fire’s First Spark
The investigation into a wildfire’s source is crucial to avoiding future disasters.
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Jacob Stern Yale Law School’s Reckoning Over Brett Kavanaugh
Students and faculty staged a sit-in Monday in protest against President Trump’s nomination of the conservative appellate-court judge, a 1990 Yale Law graduate, to the Supreme Court.
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