Olga Khazan
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
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Ryan Young / The New York Times / ... The One Area Where the U.S. COVID-19 Strategy Seems to Be Working
By spending lots of money and not worrying about liability, America is beating Europe in the vaccine race.
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The Atlantic What Americans Don’t Know About Their Medications
People who have faced debilitating side effects say we need better warnings on drugs. The FDA hasn’t been enthusiastic.
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Sara Serna The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust
Patients say the “Rock Doc” helped them like no one else could. Federal prosecutors say his “help” often amounted to dealing drugs for sex.
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Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl / Anadolu Agency / ... Why You Can’t Just Get Vaccinated at Your Doctor’s Office
Seniors are on waiting lists for vaccines, even as states are supposedly failing to use up all of their allotted doses. Why can’t vaccination happen faster?
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Sarah Silbiger / AFP / GETTY / THE ... The Far Right’s Fear of ‘Glowies’
In the aftermath of the January 6 riot, extremists have become obsessed with the federal agents who might lurk among them.
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AFP / Getty How a Well-Meaning Health Policy Created California’s Coronavirus Nightmare
The state’s hyperefficient health-care system runs pretty well—unless a pandemic strikes.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Problem With ‘Uber for Therapy’
A company that offers app-based coaching laid off its mental-health coaches, then offered them their jobs back without health insurance.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Real Reason Americans Aren’t Quarantining
Many states have quarantine requirements for visitors, but only one really enforces them: Hawaii.
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Gabriela Bhaskar / The New York Times / ... Don’t Eat Inside a Restaurant
The risk of catching the coronavirus is much higher indoors.
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Bettmann / Getty / Katie Martin / The ... Did Trump Delay the Arrival of At-Home Coronavirus Testing?
Some experts think that at-home testing can stop coronavirus outbreaks, and that the government should have been doing more to produce the tests.
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Mike Segar / Reuters / The Atlantic Never Trump, Forever
“I want the Republican Party to feel spanked,” says Mona Charen, a writer at the Never Trump website The Bulwark.
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David Fenton / Getty How to Tell If the Election Will Get Violent
Some experts are predicting violence after November 3. But there are ways to prevent it.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Why Many White Men Love Trump’s Coronavirus Response
More than 80 percent of Republicans think the president is doing a great job with the pandemic. Here’s why.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Inside the Mind of an Anti-vaxxer
The majority of Americans will need to take the coming COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s how to persuade those who won’t want to.
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Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum How to Tell If Socializing Indoors Is Safe
As the weather gets colder, many Americans have no idea whether hanging out with other people inside is risky. That’s a big problem.
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Rafal Milach / Magnum How a Bizarre Claim About Masks Has Lived on for Months
Why the wrong idea that wearing a mask can harm your health has lived on through multiple debunkings
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Getty / The Atlantic Donald Trump’s Gold-Plated Health Care
When the average American is hospitalized for COVID-19, treatment isn’t nearly as accessible or cheap as it was for the president.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty The Virus Is Coming From Inside the White House
Asking whether the celebration of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination was a “super-spreader” event misses the point: Trump’s irresponsibility made this crisis likely.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Failure of Empathy Led to 200,000 Deaths. It Has Deep Roots.
One giant psychology experiment explains why many people seem like they don’t care about the deaths of the elderly.
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Getty Is This the Secret to Selling Joe Biden?
Young people aren’t particularly excited about Joe Biden. One strategy to change their mind? Convince them that they’re voting for a big, progressive crew.
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