Shan Wang

The politics newsletter you’re reading will cease today. For this final issue, our team shares stories from the past year that most stood out to them.

• Shan Wang
• April 17, 2020

New analysis on how the COVID-19 outbreak is spreading in the largest metropolitan centers versus less densely populated areas. Plus: The internet is still bad.

• Shan Wang
• April 16, 2020

Today, the Democrats notched an improbable victory in Wisconsin’s judicial election. Plus: The pandemic isn’t Pearl Harbor or 9/11. It isn’t a hurricane or a wildfire.

• Shan Wang
• April 14, 2020

Any given Americans’ experience will be determined by a mix of a sort of demographic predestination—and purely random chance. Plus: Why the U.S. is short on masks.

• Shan Wang
• April 10, 2020

What is actually known about hydroxychloroquine, the drug the president is fixated on recommending for COVID-19. Plus: The pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest.

• Shan Wang
• April 6, 2020

Remember when Michael Bloomberg spent about $500 million running for president? Plus: What if checkpoints come to the U.S. to help slow the spread of COVID-19?

• Saahil Desai, Christian Paz, and Shan Wang
• March 19, 2020

Joe Biden keeps on winning. Plus: Is it time for Bernie Sanders to drop out?

• Saahil Desai, Christian Paz, and Shan Wang
• March 18, 2020

This is The Atlantic’s weekly email to subscribers—a close look at the issues our writers are watching, just for you.

• Shan Wang, Isabel Fattal, and Haley Weiss
• March 8, 2020

The rough answer is $60 trillion—the price tag on Bernie Sanders’s agenda. Plus: What nonvoters want (hint: it’s not always the more progressive option).

• Shan Wang
• February 26, 2020

Why the two early states could be on the cusp of losing their privileged positions. Plus: About that Joe Rogan endorsement.

• Saahil Desai, Christian Paz, and Shan Wang
• January 24, 2020

They’re ubiquitous but largely unseen; they’re indispensable but under-acknowledged. And presidents usually ignore the thousands who have died. Plus: Andrew Yang is not a joke.

• Shan Wang
• January 17, 2020

Should she? Plus: What the other, other Rhodes-Scholar Mayor thinks now of his decision not to get into the 2020 presidential race.

• Shan Wang
• January 10, 2020

What we learned in the decade that was. Plus: Why are American campaign cycles so interminable?

• Saahil Desai and Shan Wang
• December 27, 2019

The food fight within the Democratic Party plays out on all sorts of issues—including impeachment. Plus, Anne Applebaum on the false romance of Russia

• Saahil Desai and Shan Wang
• December 12, 2019

“Spreadsheets,” he told our campaign reporter about his highly scrutinized time at McKinsey. Plus: Does Kamala Harris still have VP potential?

• Saahil Desai and Shan Wang
• December 10, 2019

With Kamala Harris out of the race, zero nonwhite candidates have qualified thus far for the last Democratic debate of 2019. Plus, the bread crumbs of the “Ukraine did it” conspiracy.

• Shan Wang
• December 5, 2019

NATO was supposed to represent shared Western values. This year, disagreements rankled. Plus, the poisoning of a former Russian spy, and the disinformation war that came after.

• Shan Wang
• December 4, 2019

Meet the freshman representative from Missouri who wants to remake the GOP. Plus, how President Trump turned the military against itself

• Saahil Desai, Christian Paz, and Shan Wang
• November 25, 2019

Even independent and politically unaffiliated women, polls show. Plus, how today’s big House vote on the impeachment inquiry is a win for Trump.

• Shan Wang
• October 31, 2019