Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty Should You Wear a Mask?
James Hamblin and Katherine Wells discuss new CDC recommendations on the podcast Social Distance.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Even Now, Criminal Defendants Have Rights
During a pandemic, the presumption of innocence still applies.
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Netflix The Spanish Sci-Fi Thriller Putting a Brutal Spin on Inequality
Netflix’s The Platform, a film about a vertical prison filled with gluttony and cannibalism, is striking a chord with American viewers now.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty Stretching the International Order to Its Breaking Point
The greatest error that geopolitical analysts can make may be believing that the crisis will be over in three to four months.
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Erin Brethauer Chinese Americans Have Seen This Before
The lockdowns, equipment shortages, and overburdened hospitals feel all too familiar.
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ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / GETTY We Need to Link Local Leaders Directly to One Another
A strategy that helped Americans defeat al-Qaeda could be the key to stopping the coronavirus.
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Historical / Getty An Unhealthy Military Is Struggling to Fight COVID-19
Even as it’s called upon to aid the coronavirus response across the country, the military is struggling to contain the disease among its own personnel.
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The Atlantic How to Cut Your Own Hair
After years of practice, it’s a skill I’ll never let go of.
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Steve Granitz / Gregg DeGuire / Getty / ... We’re All Larry Davids Now
Who isn’t suspicious of other people, overtly worried about hygiene, and trigger-happy with a bottle of hand sanitizer?
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Economy Is Collapsing. So Are Trump’s Reelection Chances.
This year’s projected headline numbers look dire for the president.
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Riccardo Pareggiani / NurPhoto / Getty Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed
In Hungary, the pandemic was just an excuse.
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The Atlantic Yes, Make Coronavirus Jokes
Humor helps us take back control and connect—two things we have lost in our fight against the pandemic.
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Social Distance: Jared Kushner and the Website That Never Was
What a broken promise reveals
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Social Distance: The New Etiquette of Procuring Food
What’s the least unethical way to eat during a pandemic?
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Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty Canceling Everything Was the Easy Part
Shutting entire states down was painful but clearly necessary. Governors still have many ugly choices ahead of them.
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Barry Wilmore / NASA The Pandemic Is Turning the Natural World Upside Down
Widespread social-distancing measures have produced some jarring effects across land, air, and sea.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Economy Is Ruined. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way.
Almost 10 million Americans have already filed for unemployment benefits. Congress can still act to stem the tide.
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Simoul Alva The Perfect Quarantine Joke Is Not About Quarantine
Comedy, the adage goes, is tragedy plus time. But in this pandemic, even humor has no idea what the future holds.
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Andrei Shumskiy / Agsaz / Shutterstock / The ... Face Masks Are In
The West has long stigmatized mask-wearing, unlike many Asian countries, where those who don’t wear masks during public-health crises are the ones who are stigmatized.
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Sean Gallup / Getty Images The EU Watches as Hungary Kills Democracy
The bloc’s failure to curb the country’s democratic decline suggests that it may not have much power at all.
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