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Jim Watson / Getty Authoritarian Populists Have Six Classic Moves. Trump’s Response to COVID-19 Uses Five of Them.
While the president may not be using the coronavirus to consolidate power, Americans should still be worried about the threat he poses to democracy.
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Michael Kappeler / AP For the First Time, I’m Doubting My Decision to Come to America
The coronavirus is making me experience what Germans poetically call heimweh, the hurt of being far from your native land.
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The Atlantic This Is Just the Beginning
People who now advocate that we “choose the economy” are not being honest about the consequences of that decision.
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Chris O'Meara / AP Four Theories for Why People Are Still Out Partying
Our moral instincts don’t match this crisis.
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Claudio Furlan / LaPresse / AP The Extraordinary Decisions Facing Italian Doctors
There are now simply too many patients for each one of them to receive adequate care.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Cancel Everything
Social distancing is the only way to stop the coronavirus. We must start immediately.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Biden’s Agenda Is Plenty Bold
There is a large constituency for a racially inclusive form of social democracy that is not democratic socialism.
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Henry Romero / Reuters What the Dubious Corona Poll Reveals
Americans are desperate to believe the worst about one another.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What Nonvoters Want
Boosting turnout won’t necessarily help the most progressive candidate.
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Sashkin/Shutterstock/Arsh Raziuddin/The Atlantic What Will the World Look Like in 2030?
One thing is certain: The next decade will look very different from what most people expect.
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Francisco Seco / AP Images The European Union’s Double Crisis of Legitimacy
It isn’t sufficiently democratic, and there’s no push to penalize authoritarian member states.
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rtem / Shutterstock / The Atlantic This Is How Democracy Dies
A new report shows that people around the world are collectively losing faith in democratic systems.
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Associated Press The Inverted Likability Test
Voters may be less interested in whether a candidate is likable than in whether the candidate would like them.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters Why Trump’s Second Term Will Be Worse
Narendra Modi has been emboldened by reelection. The American president could be too.
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Hannah McKay / Reuters How Labour Lost the Culture War
The broad socioeconomic coalition that once buoyed Labour has broken in two, leaving the party shattered.
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Lloyd Mitchell / Reuters The Political Inconvenience of the Jersey City Shooting
If the debate about structural racism is highly complicated, the moral truth about the anti-Semitic shooting is nevertheless straightforward.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Great American Eye-Exam Scam
Why is it so difficult to get a new pair of glasses or contacts in this country? It’s easier pretty much everywhere else.
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Danilo Balderrama / Reuters Bolivia Should Worry Autocrats Everywhere
Regardless of their outcome, the protests against Evo Morales show that populists can sustain their legitimacy for only so long.
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Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty Evo Morales Finally Went Too Far for Bolivia
The socialist president claimed authoritarian powers in the name of the popular will. But average citizens were fed up with arbitrary rule.
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Vincent Kessler / Reuters Brexit Is a Cultural Revolution
Why Boris Johnson’s deal is acceptable, but Theresa May’s was not
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