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Vincent Laforet / Reuters How America Handles Catastrophe
Covering Katrina weakened my faith in the country’s preparedness. The coronavirus has robbed me of it completely.
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The Atlantic The Coronavirus’s Unique Threat to the South
More young people in the South seem to be dying from COVID-19. Why?
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Yusiki / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Watch New Orleans
With the country’s attention turned north, the coronavirus pandemic is exploding in Louisiana.
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Ezra Acayan / Stringer / Getty The Kids Aren’t All Right
COVID-19 doesn’t appear to be a major concern for children’s health, but the youngest among us will still bear the larger burdens of trauma and economic fallout.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Floodlines: Timeline of Events
A retrospective on the events that led to the disaster, and what came next
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Anthony Pidgeon / Redferns / Getty Floodlines: A Q&A With New Orleans Musician Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
A conversation with the man behind the music in the podcast about his inspiration, the betrayal of Hurricane Katrina, and the unique history and future of New Orleans.
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Kyoshino / Getty / The Atlantic Floodlines: Further Reading
A collection of research and writing that informed and inspired the podcast
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Zora J. Murff The Great Land Robbery
The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms
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Associated Press Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth
The debate over reparations highlights the dual purpose of the holiday: celebrating emancipation but also demanding accountability for historical and present wrongs.
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Universal Us and Jordan Peele’s New Horror
In his latest film, the comedian turned director continues to reinvent how the genre uses fear to comment on humanity’s evil.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Senate Democrats’ Push to Expand Voting Rights
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is unveiling a proposal to combat disenfranchisement, which he says is one of the “three biggest issues” the country faces going into 2020.
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Marvin Gentry / Reuters The Democrats’ New Voting-Rights Moment
The party hopes to restore and extend key provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Will Cohen’s Remarks on Trump’s Racism Change Anything?
The president has somehow proved resilient to accusations that he is a racist.
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John Minchillo / AP The Racial Divide Is the Political Divide
White, black, and Hispanic people hold distinctly different views of American identity and values.
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Kevin Morley / Associated Press The Virginia Democrats’ Warring Factions
Scandals reveal a party beset by infighting and whispers of conspiracies.
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Associated Press Stacey Abrams’s New Strategy for Democrats
In her response to the president’s State of the Union address, the former Georgia legislator pushed voting rights to the heart of her party’s agenda.
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Steve Helber / AP Ralph Northam’s Mistake
The Virginia governor’s main problem is not the particulars of his dalliances with racism, but the fact that they exist—and that they caught black voters unawares.
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Eric Gay / AP Texas Voter-Fraud Claims Don’t Have to Be True to Achieve Their Goal
So far there’s no evidence that anyone on a faulty list of registered voters cast an illegal ballot. That didn’t stop President Trump from decrying “voter fraud.”
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John Bazemore / AP Why Democrats Picked Stacey Abrams to Deliver Their Trump Counterpunch
The decision to tap Abrams for their State of the Union response reflects the importance of this year’s address to the party.
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Rick Bowmer / Associated Press How a Ballot Initiative to Expand Medicaid in Utah May Be Denied
Republican lawmakers don’t want to fully implement a ballot initiative passed in November. One health-care advocate called it “trampling on … representative democracy.”
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