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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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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Lionel Bonaventure / AFP / Getty What Are Parents Supposed to Do With Their Kids?
With public schools closed, at least 15 states have no free child-care options for essential workers.
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The Atlantic The Most American COVID-19 Failure Yet
Contact tracing works almost everywhere else. Why not here?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic America’s Terrible Internet Is Making Quarantine Worse
Why millions of students still can’t get online
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The Atlantic Why Can’t We Just Have Class Outside?
It might be the answer to America’s school-reopening problem.
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Peter Marlow / Magnum America’s Inescapable Offices
Workers who have already returned to their cubicle report days full of anxiety, masks, and sanitation shaming.
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