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Harold M. Lambert / Keystone / Getty ; … Germany Found a Way to Reduce Polarization. Could It Work in the U.S.?
The country’s robust investment in public media has helped it reduce political divisions.
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Chinatopix / AP The Lost Month That Haunts the World
And points to how we prevent the next pandemic.
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Mauro Pimentel / AFP / Getty COVID-19 Lays Bare the Price of Populism
A raging outbreak in Brazil threatens gains against the virus.
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Jim Lo Scalzo /Getty Don’t Erase What Happened at the Capitol
The building should resemble the United States, a still-broken country in need of fixing.
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Oded Balilty / AP One Country Has Jumped Ahead on Vaccinations
Israel has vaccinated six times more of its population than the United States. Can others learn from its success?
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Joe Raedle / Getty The Damage Will Last
The precedents Trump has set, the doubts he has sown, and the claims he has made will linger.
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Daniel Hernanz Ramos / Getty The Pandemic Is Revealing a New Form of National Power
In the COVID-19 era, a country’s strength is determined not only by its military and economy, but also by its resilience.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic My Son Is Looking to Me for Answers—And I Don’t Have Them Anymore
He’s asking me life’s biggest questions at the very moment when I am unlearning so much of what I used to know.
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The Atlantic Why America Resists Learning From Other Countries
The pandemic may pose the greatest threat yet to the belief that America has little to learn from the rest of the world.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Brazil’s Pandemic Is Just Beginning
The hardest-hit country in Latin America is facing a “perfect storm,” as inequality collides with COVID-19.
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SongJoon Cho / Bloomberg / Getty I Have Seen the Future—And It’s Not the Life We Knew
Cities around the world might slowly be coming back to life, but there’s no going back to “normal.”
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Simon Schluter / Fairfax / Headpress / Redux New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet
Jacinda Ardern’s leadership style, focused on empathy, isn’t just resonating with her people; it’s putting the country on track for success against the coronavirus.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty Anthony Fauci, Lightning Rod
The nation’s top infectious-disease expert is hardly infallible. But Trump allies may be criticizing him because they can’t target the president.
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Scott Olson / Getty We Can’t Rely on Just the Military
It might seem like the Pentagon can act as some sort of savior in confronting the coronavirus, but that’s unlikely.
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Andrei Shumskiy / Agsaz / Shutterstock / The … Face Masks Are In
The West has long stigmatized mask-wearing, unlike many Asian countries, where those who don’t wear masks during public-health crises are the ones who are stigmatized.
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Andressa Anholete / Getty / Katie Martin / … The Coronavirus-Denial Movement Now Has a Leader
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has lashed out against local officials who have implemented severe lockdowns, accusing them of destroying the country.
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Ashley Gilbertson / VII / Redux Why America Is Uniquely Unsuited to Dealing With the Coronavirus
For decades other countries were shaped by the traumas of disease outbreaks while the United States remained largely untouched. No longer.
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The Atlantic We Were Warned
When the inevitable inquiry into the government's response to COVID-19 happens, it will conclude that signs of a coming crisis were everywhere.
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Greg Baker / AFP / Getty China Hawks Are Calling the Coronavirus a ‘Wake-Up Call’
Hard-liners have long warned of the systemic risks posed by America’s global supply chains. Now they’re pointing to the outbreak as definitive proof.
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John Locher / AP The Democrats’ Dictator Problem
The candidates’ attempts at moral clarity got muddled when conversation turned to the trade-offs inherent in actually conducting American statecraft.
