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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Don’t Wait for Herd Immunity
We may never reach the point when viral spread stops, but a strategy of minimizing risk—not eliminating it—can help Americans reclaim normalcy.
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Mark Power / Magnum The Border Mess That Trump Left Behind
Reversing the previous administration’s cruelties isn’t the same as an unconditional welcome.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How MAGA Extremism Ends
If Trump keeps losing, the risk of future violence will abate.
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Jeffrey Basinger / Newsday / Getty / Maxim … The Month the Pandemic Started to End
The pandemic is unfolding as if on a split screen. The winter looks bleak, but Americans can now give themselves permission to hope for a speedy vaccine rollout.
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Milan Bures / Anzenberger / Redux The Emotionally Challenging Next Phase of the Pandemic
The end of summer is a bitter reminder: America’s coronavirus ordeal won’t end when 2020 does.
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SAUL LOEB / AFP / Getty Trump Is the Problem. The Organizational Chart Doesn’t Matter.
Federal agents are confronting protesters in Portland because voters chose a president with authoritarian instincts.
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Bodo Schackow / picture alliance / Getty Reopening Schools Was Just an Afterthought
Americans found out the hard way that education is essential infrastructure.
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The Atlantic Trump Turns the U.S. Into an Outcast
Other countries are judging America by its sickest states and most reckless politicians.
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Peter Marlow / Magnum Never Go Back to the Office
The coronavirus killed corporate culture. Get used to working from home.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Trump Turned the Death Count Into a Story About Himself
Official figures exclude thousands who have died during the pandemic. To draw the right lessons, the U.S. needs an accurate tally of the victims.
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Dustin Chambers / Bloomberg / Getty The U.S. Is Now Resorting to Plan C
Americans are not going to wait for sufficient testing. So what happens next?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic After Social Distancing, a Strange Purgatory Awaits
Life right now feels very odd. And it will feel odd for months—and even years—to come.
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Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty Canceling Everything Was the Easy Part
Shutting entire states down was painful but clearly necessary. Governors still have many ugly choices ahead of them.
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John Minchillo / AP If Trump Can’t Do the Job, Other People Need To
The president is more hindrance than help, so leaders in and out of government have to plan around him.
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Todd Heisler / The New York Times / … The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared.
The shutdowns happened remarkably quickly, but the process of resuming our lives will be far more muddled.
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Vladimir Sviracevic / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Trump Leaves States to Fend for Themselves
The coronavirus is America’s first 50-state disaster, and each governor is dependent on outside help that may never come.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Is Failing to Prepare Americans for a Disturbing New Reality
As news about the coronavirus worsens, Americans need good information and a realistic basis for hope. The president is providing the public with neither.
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Jason Redmond / Reuters The U.S. Isn’t Ready for What’s About to Happen
Even with a robust government response to the novel coronavirus, many people will be in peril. And the United States is anything but prepared.
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Richard Drew / AP The Recurring Folly of ‘If You See Something, Say Something’
As tensions with Iran worsen, the post-9/11 homeland-security playbook is coming back. But hypervigilance against vague threats is more useless than ever.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Terrorism Only Works on Nations That Aren’t Ready for It
Since 9/11, national-security officials have made policy on a myth of American invulnerability. They should have been preparing everyday citizens for the worst in order to make the country stronger.
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