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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Joris van Gennip / laif / Redux The U.S. Is Repeating Its Deadliest Pandemic Mistake
More than 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in America have been in nursing homes. Here’s how it got so bad, and why there might still be more to come as cases surge in the Sun Belt.
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Fred Marvaux / Rea / Redux The School Reopeners Think America Is Forgetting About Kids
Some public-health experts say the costs of keeping schools closed outweigh the hazards of reopening them.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Common Snake Oil Reemerges for the Coronavirus
The pandemic has sparked an interest in dubious cures such as colloidal silver—and some are trying to capitalize on it.
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Alec Soth / Magnum The Millennial Mental-Health Crisis
Suicides and overdoses among young adults were already skyrocketing before the pandemic started. Now experts fear that the situation is going to get even worse.
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Ashley Gilbertson / VII / Redux Why People Loot
On who looters are, what they want, and why some protests are more likely to include them
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic A Hidden COVID-19 Risk Factor: Your Boss
America’s flawed approach to sick leave is making the pandemic worse.
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Stephane de Sakutin / Getty We’ll Be Wearing Things on Our Faces for a Long Time
You can choose between a mask and a face shield, but you can’t choose nothing.
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Diana Markosian / Magnum Pools Will Test the Limits of Social Distancing
Yes, you’ll have to stay six feet apart even when you’re in the water.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Why Your Shrink Wasn’t Offering Virtual Therapy Until Now
Did it need to take a pandemic to let us Zoom with our therapist in our PJs?
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Natalia Ramos The Worst Situation Imaginable for Family Violence
All over the United States, adults and children have been quarantined for weeks with people who hurt them.
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Simoul Alva Work From Home Is Here to Stay
The future of jobs after the pandemic is a blurry mix of work, life, pajamas, and Zoom.
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Taehoon Kim / Getty The Scariest Pandemic Timeline
If the flu and coronavirus hit at the same time this fall, America might have a longer, more severe lockdown.
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Johannes Eisele / Getty Humans Are Too Optimistic to Comprehend the Coronavirus
Why Americans didn’t see this pandemic coming
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Alicia Tatone How the Coronavirus Could Create a New Working Class
Experts predict the outbreak will lead to a rise in populism. But will workers turn their rage toward corporate CEOs, or middle-class “elites”?
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Chelsea Beck Don’t Get Your Pet Groomed, Groomers Say
Workers who clip dogs’ nails and trim their fur say they still have to show up to their jobs, and they’re terrified for their health.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty Why We’re Running Out of Masks
The United States’ secretive medical stockpile was prepped for a bombing, not a pandemic.
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Ina Fassbender / AFP / Getty Amazon Is Struggling to Pay Workers in Quarantine
Big retailers have rolled out sick leave during the pandemic, but some workers describe a confusing process for getting paid.
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Sarah Blesener / The New York Times / ... Grocery Stores Are the Coronavirus Tipping Point
Even one of the last bastions of normal American life could not escape the outbreak.
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Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times / ... Exclusive: Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse
Workers at the Queens, New York, facility say employees were expected to come in for their night shift after the case was identified. Amazon denies this.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Should You Take Advil for COVID-19?
It’s a surprisingly tricky question.
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