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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The SAT and the ACT Will Probably Survive the Pandemic—Thanks to Students
Despite colleges dropping their testing requirements because of the coronavirus, students continue to sign up for the exams, believing that a score is the key to admission.
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JAXA / ISAS / Akatsuki Project Team Something Weird Is Happening on Venus
The discovery of a strange gas in its atmosphere puts the planet “into the realm of a perhaps inhabited world,” a researcher says.
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Justin Reznick Photography / Getty Washington: Images of the Evergreen State
A few glimpses of the landscape of Washington, and some of the animals and people calling it home
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RyanJLane / Getty Grandparents Could Ease the Burden of Homeschooling
It’s a win-win: Elders get a way to combat loneliness, teachers and parents get help they desperately need, and children get another grown-up to guide them through remote learning.
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Aaron Marin America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral
As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
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Getty / The Atlantic What Young, Healthy People Have to Fear From COVID-19
The White House’s new science adviser says: nothing. The science disagrees.
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Cole Burston / Bloomberg / Getty I Crossed Back Into a State of Denial
At the Canada-U.S. border, I encountered a study in contrasts.
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CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP via Getty Paris Is About to Change
The city was hit hard by the pandemic, but French leaders know transformation is necessary.
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Langston Amadi How Pop Music’s Teenage Dream Ended
A decade ago, Katy Perry’s sound was ubiquitous. Today, it’s niche. How did a genre defined by popularity become unpopular?
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Worradirek / Bhaskar Dutta / Getty / The ... Will Trumpism Change Republican Foreign Policy Permanently?
The president did not just challenge Republican orthodoxy. He also blew up its establishment.
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Jan Buchczik Why It’s So Lonely at the Top
Work friendships are crucial to happiness. What happens when you can’t make them?
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Mythology of Karen
The meme is so powerful because of the awkward status of white women.
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Greg Du Toit / Barcroft Media / Getty World Elephant Day 2020
Recent images of African and Asian elephants in their natural habitat, as well as in preserves and protected parks
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Pete Marovich / Bloomberg / Getty Biden’s Disability Plan Could Close the Equal-Pay Loophole
The partisan divide on disability rights is bigger now than at any time in recent memory.
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Dina Litovsky / Redux How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
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Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP I Can’t Keep Doing This. Please Open the Schools.
The idea that I might have to continue to work while facilitating another subpar semester of virtual learning is almost too much to bear.
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The Atlantic A Vaccine Reality Check
So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.
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ESO / Bohn et al A Faraway Solar System Is an Uncanny Reflection of Our Own
Astronomers have captured a strangely comforting scene 300 light-years from Earth.
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The Atlantic How Ugly Politicking Ate Election Oversight
The federal Election Assistance Commission has neglected key responsibilities or ceded them to other agencies—and two of its four commissioners are spreading the president’s unfounded warnings about voting by mail.
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Kathryn Harrison ‘They Got Her This Time, Son’
Mike Liles found his wife and the mother of his five children dead on the kitchen floor—attacked in the couple’s home for the second time in two decades. Still, the family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the killer. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.
