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Ben Hickey The Real Chill on Campus
Most students are open to real debate. But their colleges are failing them.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Doom Spiral of Pernicious Polarization
The U.S. is more dangerously divided than any other wealthy democracy. Is there a way back from the brink?
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Lionel Preau / Riva Press / Redux Why Marine Le Pen Is So Close to Power
The French mainstream has failed to counter the far right’s pessimism about the state of the country. Americans are making the same mistake.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; CSA-Printstock / Getty How Diverse Democracies Can Protect Their Citizens
Only liberal values can ensure true freedom.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Dictators Aren’t Pretending Anymore
The democratic recession is so severe that autocrats now openly stage coups, steal elections, and invade other countries.
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The Atlantic Open Everything
The time to end pandemic restrictions is now.
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The Atlantic Omicron Is the Beginning of the End
No matter the severity of the variant, the appetite for shutdowns or other large-scale social interventions simply isn’t there.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty You Can’t Win Elections by Telling Voters Their Concerns Are Imaginary
Virginia is sending Democrats a warning: They’ve lost control of the narrative about education.
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David Baltzer / Zenit / laif / Redux Four Measures That Are Helping Germany Beat COVID
And why we’re failing to do the same things in America
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Adam Glanzman / Bloomberg / Getty Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different
Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself.
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Kay Nietfeld / DPA / AP The World Won’t Miss Angela Merkel
The German chancellor’s departure feels like a historic moment. But little will change once she’s gone.
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Wakil Kohsar / AFP / Getty So Much for a ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’
Biden’s answer to Trump’s approach lasted only as long as its first major test.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic We Might Have Reached Peak Populism
If the picture looked almost unremittingly bleak a few years ago, now distinct patches of hope are on the horizon.
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Steve Pfost/Newsday /Getty When to Reopen
Let’s stop pretending that pandemic rules that made sense in April 2020 still make sense a year later.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The System Held
Some believed the pandemic would expose the irrationality of the Western economic system. They were wrong.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic Trump Is Gone, but Democracy Is in Trouble
A new report reveals that democratic governments are in retreat around the globe.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Don’t Impeach
Any attempt to usher Trump out of the White House before January 20 is likely to fail, or backfire.
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Joshua Roberts / Getty / Katie Martin / … The Problem With a 50–50 Senate
A double victory in Georgia could create serious difficulties for Democrats—and might even make it less likely for Biden to win reelection.
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Why Trump Might Just Fade Away
Americans will soon grow tired of the president, despite his efforts to stay in the limelight.
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Carlos Osorio / REUTERS Your Individually Rational Choice Is Collectively Disastrous
Stopping the virus from spreading requires us to override our basic intuitions.
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