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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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Getty / The Atlantic Cancel College
Reopening universities will accomplish little and endanger many.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic When a Vaccine Arrives, People Will Ignore the Anti-Vaxxers
Even if some Americans opt out, the country will still reach herd immunity against COVID-19.
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The Atlantic Stop Firing the Innocent
America needs a reckoning over racism. Punishing people who did not do anything wrong harms that important cause.
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Timothy Mulcare The Virus Will Win
Americans are pretending that the pandemic is over. It certainly is not.
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Getty Prepare for the Roaring Twenties
The human desire to socialize will survive the pandemic.
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Getty / The Atlantic No Testing, No Treatment, No Herd Immunity, No Easy Way Out
We need to start preparing for a darker reality.
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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.
