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Devin Oktar Yalkin ‘I Was Responsible for Those People’
The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11, while 79 of his employees died. He’s still searching for permission to move on.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Delta Beat Biden
The new administration promised competency and efficiency, but it has struggled all year with consistent pandemic messaging.
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Getty; The Atlantic Australia Traded Away Too Much Liberty
How long can a democracy maintain emergency restrictions and still call itself a free country?
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Oliver Contreras / Sipa / AP A Bungled Mess
Right now, we need a coherent policy in Afghanistan.
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Victor J. Blue / The New York Times … Who Takes the Blame?
People are pointing fingers in all directions over President Biden’s unfolding foreign-policy crisis.
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Benjamin Rasmussen / The New York Times / … The Unbearable Summer
Disastrous environmental events are converging like never before.
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Evan Vucci / AP Biden’s ‘America First’ Policy on Afghanistan
The president has prioritized American troops and interests over the fate of those in Afghanistan.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic How the Pandemic Now Ends
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.
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Brandon Bell / Getty Greg Abbott Surrenders to the Coronavirus
The Texas governor’s warped priorities are allowing an extremist minority to worsen the pandemic.
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Getty; The Atlantic A Crimson Tide of Debt
Instead of propelling students into the middle class, many public institutions such as the University of Alabama are leaving them saddled with large loans.
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Francois Nel / Getty Simone Biles’s Critics Don’t Understand This Generation of Athletes
The world’s best gymnast doesn’t need to look invincible.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The MyPillow Guy Really Could Destroy Democracy
In the time I spent with Mike Lindell, I came to learn that he is affable, devout, philanthropic—and a clear threat to the nation.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The End of Free Speech in Hong Kong
The conviction of a pro-democracy activist is a watershed moment.
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William Widmer / Redux What Those in Power Are Missing About the Opioid Epidemic
“This is what happens when public health fails.”
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Leigh Vogel / Getty Haiti and the Trump Illusion
The U.S. cannot wall itself off from the troubles facing its neighbors.
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Getty; The Atlantic Space Billionaires, Please Read the Room
Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are choosing a terrible time to leave Earth.
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Photographs by Shane Rocheleau The Heaviest, Lightest Thing
To undocumented people like me, a few pieces of paper are the difference between stability and crisis.
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Jordan Gale What I’m Teaching My Daughter About Living in Extreme Heat
I learned how to tolerate the heat in Arizona. I just never thought I’d have to put those lessons to use in Portland.
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Illustration by Danielle Del Plato The Authoritarian Instincts of Police Unions
They condition their members to see themselves as soldiers at war with the public they are meant to serve, and above the laws they are meant to enforce.
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Chris Jobs / Alamy; Evgenia Vasileva / Getty; … The Fight Over Canada’s Founding Prime Minister
Attacks on symbols of nationhood are not merely symbolic actions. They strike at the nationhood the symbol represents.
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