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Drew Angerer / Getty The Party Whose Success Is a Problem
The Scottish National Party has no viable opposition—so it has created one from within.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking?
Feelings about the vaccine are intertwined with feelings about the pandemic.
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Christopher Lee / VII / Redux Why Larry Krasner’s Defeat Would be ‘Disastrous’ for Criminal-Justice Reform
The Philadelphia district attorney’s reelection bid will test whether a progressive prosecutor can survive a spike in gun violence.
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Wikipedia / The Atlantic Why the Filibuster Suits the GOP Just Fine
Because neither party can reliably elect enough senators to overcome a filibuster, modern American politics is trapped. We figured out just how trapped.
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Britta Pedersen / Getty / The Atlantic Elon Musk’s SNL Hosting Gig Is a Trap
By the time you understand the billionaire’s motives, you’ve already been trolled.
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Bob Peterson / The LIFE Images Collection / … If the Author Is a Bad Person, Does That Change Anything?
Blake Bailey, who wrote Philip Roth: The Biography, has been accused of sexual crimes.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The First Congressman to Take Parental Leave Is Ready to Fight for It
Democrat Colin Allred of Texas wants to make paid parental leave possible for everyone. The White House appears poised to join him.
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Anindito Mukherjee / Getty Why the World Should Worry About India
The world’s largest vaccine producer is struggling to overcome its latest COVID-19 surge—and that’s everyone’s problem.
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Carlos Barria / REUTERS The Rise of Ron DeSantis
The Florida governor’s sudden prominence is partly about him, partly about his critics, but mostly about his state.
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The Blood-Clot Problem Is Multiplying
So are theories to explain it.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Modern Communication’s Big Open Secret
The assumption that we are the sole authors of our texts and emails is a collective fiction—but a useful one.
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Sandy Carson / GalleryStock America Needs More Luxury Housing, Not Less
New market-rate development helps relieve pressure on local housing prices.
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Mirrorpix / Getty / Adam Maida / The … The Dark Side of Box Tops for Education
The school-funding program recently switched from offering rebates for physical labels to an app, frustrating many users and highlighting some of the program’s long-standing contradictions and inequalities.
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Photographer unknown / John F. Kennedy Presidential Library … ‘Eliminate Every Superfluous Word’
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new documentary, Hemingway, dramatizes one of the great revolutions in the history of American literature.
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Jahi Chikwendiu / The Washington Post / Getty Pregnant? Breastfeeding? The Vaccine Might Protect You and Your Baby
Antibodies that cross the placenta or end up in milk could give infants temporary immunity to COVID-19.
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Getty/ Adam Maida / The Atlantic Why D.C. Is Failing at the Vaccination Game
If the District were a state, it could fix its shot problem.
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Matt McClain / The Washington Post / Getty The Moral Cost of Choosing Stability Over Justice
The events of January 6 illustrate the flaw in accommodating extremists in the name of stability.
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The Atlantic Why America Is Beating Europe on Vaccination
Last summer, France’s pandemic response seemed far more competent than America’s. In the vaccine stage, everything looks different.
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Anwar Hussein / WireImage / Getty Meghan Markle Didn’t Do the Work
Part of Meghan’s problem was her naïveté about the workings of the Royal Family, which she had assumed would be similar to the workings of celebrity culture.
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Victoria Jones / PA Images / Getty What Sarah Everard’s Murder Illuminates—And Might Obscure
We must consider why this one case has attracted so much attention, to the exclusion of many others.
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