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Getty / The Atlantic America Is Going to Have a ‘Heat Belt’
How can cities prepare for more regular extreme heat?
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John Roca / NY Daily News Archive / … The Mar-a-Lago Raid Proves the U.S. Isn’t a Banana Republic
A bedrock principle is that no one—not even the president, much less the former president—is above the law, and if they commit crimes, they must answer for them.
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Luca Cserna / Getty Why Exceptions for the Life of the Mother Have Disappeared
The absence of these exemptions is a sign of the anti-abortion-rights movement’s distrust of women and the medical establishment.
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Getty; The Atlantic Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder
A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie.
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Ben Sklar / Getty Actually Good News About Voting, for a Change
Colorado’s simple plan to increase voter registration is already working.
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Most Damning January 6 Testimony Yet
Cassidy Hutchinson’s account of Donald Trump’s behavior destroys any defense the president once had.
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Shannon Finney / Getty Dave Chappelle’s Not Kidding
The comedian’s proposal to defer having his name on his high school’s theater might seem conciliatory. But it’s a big bet on what he believes.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Picture Post / … What If Russia Uses Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine?
A look at the grim scenarios—and the U.S. playbook for each
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Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Russia Has a Plan for Ukraine. It Looks Like Chechnya.
Putin’s template is simple: flatten cities, install satraps, rule by fear.
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Getty; The Atlantic How I Learned to Eat Alone and Not Be Lonely
What two years of solo dinners taught me
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Getty; The Atlantic The United States Must Stand Up for One of Its Own
If the Biden administration refuses to investigate the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, those who target American journalists will have impunity.
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Gabrielle Lurie / San Francisco Chronicle / Getty The People vs. Chesa Boudin
San Franciscans do not feel safe and secure.
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The Atlantic; Alex Wong / Michael Schwartz / … Conservatives Are Defending a Sanitized Version of ‘The Great Replacement’
Their reaction to the Buffalo shooting shows that the racist theory has now entered the Republican mainstream.
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Jacques Pavlovsky / Getty; The Atlantic Nothing Beautiful Survives the Culture War
Parenthood itself seems poised to become a victim of America’s toxic politics.
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Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Man’s Other Best Friend
Domesticating horses changed humanity forever. Where and when did it first happen?
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Daniel Berehulak / The New York Times / … Don’t Fight in Another Country’s War
A Ukrainian victory should be as Ukrainian as possible.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty The Shame Deficit
As a transplant from England, I’ve been repeatedly struck by the weakness of norms against nepotism in the American elite—particularly the continued practice of legacy admissions.
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Getty; The Atlantic The End of Presidential Debates
Only those conversant with the pro-Trump right’s myths and legends will be able to decipher the Republican National Committee’s latest decision.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Dianne Feinstein Is the Future of the Senate
And that’s the problem.
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Photo illustration by Oliver Munday. Source: Deborah Spronk … The Future of Abortion in a Post-Roe America
Inside the covert network preparing to circumvent restrictions
