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Namrata Gosavi Is Everyone Depressed?
Suddenly, many people meet the criteria for clinical depression. Doctors are scrambling to determine who needs urgent intervention, and who is simply the new normal.
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Piotr Malecki / Panos Pictures / Redux Social Distancing Is Not Enough
We will need a comprehensive strategy to reduce the sort of interactions that can lead to more infections.
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Bill Hudson / AP How White Backlash Controls American Progress
Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history.
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Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty Trump Is Attacking Global Trade. Would Biden Bring It Back?
The presumptive Democratic nominee doesn’t yet have a bold and assertive plan to resist the rise of protectionism.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Virtual Campaign Is a Disaster
The candidate has reached the peak of his career in the rec room of his basement, talking into a computer.
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The Atlantic A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person
I couldn’t say these things during a traditional ceremony, but these aren’t traditional times.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.
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Ron Antonelli / Bloomberg / Getty How New Jersey’s Governor Figured Out Trump
Phil Murphy discusses the state’s efforts to mitigate its coronavirus infections and lower its death rate, the second-highest in the country.
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Courtesy of Denise Rendor The Fragility of the Global Nurse Supply Chain
The pandemic has exposed how richer countries, including the United States, rely on health-care workers from poorer ones, such as the Philippines.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Florida: Images of the Sunshine State
A few glimpses of Florida’s landscape, and some of the animals and people calling it home
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The Atlantic Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.
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Yeshiel Xinhua / eyevine / Redux Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen
And to make matters worse, we’re testing the wrong people.
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Adam Maida A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat
Few figures tell you anything useful about how the coronavirus has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
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Nintendo / Vectorpocket / rangizzz / Shutterstock / ... The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
In the midst of a pandemic, it’s delightful to imagine doing whatever you like without worrying about making a living.
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Joan Wong Our Pandemic Summer
The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.
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Win McNamee/Getty With Each Briefing, Trump Is Making Us Worse People
He is draining the last reserves of decency among us at a time when we need it most.
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Max-o-matic For China, the ‘USA Virus’ Is a Geopolitical Ploy
In a new era of tinfoil-hat diplomacy, official sources are legitimizing conspiracy theories from the internet.
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NASA The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13
Looking back on the averted tragedies and safe return of NASA’s Apollo 13 mission to the moon in 1970
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Brittany Greeson / The New York Times / ... The Two States Where Trump’s COVID-19 Response Could Backfire in 2020
Voters in Michigan and Florida may be more likely than others to blame or credit him for how the outbreak unfolds.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters The U.S. Should Just Send Checks—But Won’t
America’s obsession with keeping aid from the undeserving is making a bad economic crisis worse.
