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Scott Olson / Getty The West’s Nuclear Mistake
No government that really regarded climate change as its top energy priority would close nuclear plants before the end of their useful lives.
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Drew Angerer / Getty; Win McNamee / Getty The End of Roe
Today’s oral argument signaled that the Court is poised to reverse Roe v. Wade outright.
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Oliver Morris / Getty Stephen Sondheim’s Knotty Vision of Musical Theater
The late composer-lyricist took a calcified medium and made it engage with the human condition.
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Courtesy of the Bad River Tribal Historic Preservation … A History Not Yet Laid to Rest
Indigenous people in Canada and the U.S. have been reckoning with the legacy of assimilationist boarding schools for years. Now non-Native people must too.
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The Atlantic Another Problem for Latinx
Not many Latinos in America use the term. Even fewer elected officials do.
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Mirage C / Getty Everything Is a Multivitamin
A simple way to understand what’s actually inside all those miracle pills.
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Sean Krajacic / Getty The Rittenhouse Trial Could Never Have Been What Americans Wanted
Even a guilty verdict would not have answered the questions the case had come to symbolize.
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Will Heath / NBCU / Getty On SNL, Taylor Swift Stopped Time
The singer’s 10-minute performance of “All Too Well” was a dazzling reminder of how far she has come as an artist.
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Stefan Jeremiah / AP The Republicans’ Dangerous New Tactic
In the New Jersey gubernatorial race, the Republican candidate, Jack Ciattarelli, still has yet to concede.
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Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin; images by Universal History … The Casteism I See in America
A raft of evidence shows that caste discrimination has been imported from India to the United States.
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David Baltzer / Zenit / laif / Redux Four Measures That Are Helping Germany Beat COVID
And why we’re failing to do the same things in America
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic My Daily Life Is a Game of Roulette
Medicine has never been about certainty, but odds.
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Craig Warga / Bloomberg / Getty A Worrisome Peek Inside Yale Law’s Diversity Bureaucracy
A bizarre controversy over a party invitation exposes choices typically made behind closed doors at an elite school.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Harsh, Central Truth of the Viral ‘Bad Art Friend’ Story
The main character’s flaws are a reflection of our own.
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Klaus Vedfelt / Getty; The Atlantic The Social Security Trap
Social Security rewards long careers and high pay, all but guaranteeing that parents who focus on child-rearing receive the smallest payouts. My mom is one such parent.
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Photo illustrations by Ben Shmulevitch We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic
This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast.
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Shannon Lin / The Atlantic Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter
The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.
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The Atlantic You Might Want to Wait to Get a Booster Shot
There are no simple rules for timing on a third jab—but maybe don’t rush it.
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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.
