Zeynep Tufekci
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Paul Spella / Getty / The Atlantic The Next Big Gasoline Shortage Is Coming
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we cannot ignore the warning signs for future catastrophes.
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Pablo Morano Xinhua / eyevine / Redux The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes
The agency’s new guidelines are too timid and too complicated.
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Lindsey Wasson / Reuters The Fourth Surge Is Upon Us. This Time, It’s Different.
A deadlier and more transmissible variant has taken root, but now we have the tools to stop it if we want.
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Sebastian Gollnow / Uwe Anspach / picture alliance … 3 Ways the Pandemic Has Made the World Better
COVID-19 has inflicted devastating losses. It has also delivered certain blessings.
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Alex Wong / Chet Strange/ Sarah Silbiger / … 5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating
We can learn from our failures.
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The Atlantic It’s All Rigged
What Robinhood and Facebook have in common
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Anna Moneymaker / The New York Times / … Most House Republicans Did What the Rioters Wanted
The most dangerous thing that happened Wednesday occurred after the mob dispersed.
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Vincent Catala / Agence VU / Redux Why Aren’t We Wearing Better Masks?
Cloth masks are better than nothing, but they were supposed to be a stopgap measure.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic This Isn’t Just Political Theater
Trump’s threats aren’t performative—he’s pointing a loaded gun at democracy.
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John Moore / Getty The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
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Emin Ozmen / Magnum Hang On for 3 More Months
Some simple advice for anyone contemplating a holiday gathering: Wait until March.
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Win McNamee / Getty ‘This Must Be Your First’
Acting as if Trump is trying to stage a coup is the best way to ensure he won’t.
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John Moore / Getty It’s Time to Hunker Down
A devastating surge is here. Unless Americans act aggressively, it will get much larger, very quickly.
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Scott Olson / Getty America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be.
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Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP / Getty This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
It’s not R.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is No Excuse to Surveil Students
Trying to do so is all but useless.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock We Need to Talk About Ventilation
How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?
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Remko de Waal / Hollandse Hoogte / Redux The Tragic Loss of Coronavirus Patients’ Final Words
It takes a special kind of inattention to human suffering to not notice how unfortunate it is that people have been left to face death alone.
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Dan Kitwood / Getty Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping
People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise.
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Kate Sterlin Do Protests Even Work?
It sometimes takes decades to find out.
