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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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Brian Snyder / Reuters America Won
Voters stopped an authoritarian populist from destroying the country’s democratic institutions.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Trump Is the Best Candidate for the Illiberal Left
If you hate wokeness, you should vote for Joe Biden.
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Getty / The Atlantic International Patterns Show Why Trump Is So Hard to Beat
Populists in power tend to stay in power.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Coming Crisis of Legitimacy
Whether Biden or Trump emerges as the winner, millions of Americans will likely believe that their candidate was robbed.
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Sean Rayford / Getty What Biden Understands That the Left Does Not
Far from being a source of weakness, the fact that Biden honed his political instincts decades ago is a source of electoral strength.
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Getty / The Atlantic American Passports Are Useless Now
I can go just about anywhere with my German passport. But almost no one wants to let in Americans these days.
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