Corrections

The Populists Finally Breaking With Trump

For some of the president’s most like-minded allies, the insurrection on Capitol Hill was one step too far.

• Yasmeen Serhan
• January 9, 2021

Jamie Raskin Lost His Son. Then He Fled a Mob.

The day before the Capitol riot, a congressman buried his 25-year-old son, who had left a note for his family on New Year’s Eve.

• John Hendrickson
• January 8, 2021

The Whole Story in a Single Photo

An image from the Capitol captures the distance between who we purport to be and who we have actually been.

• Clint Smith
• January 8, 2021

The Winter Surge Is Fracturing

Hospitalizations are down across the Midwest, but a handful of states are showing worrisome signs.

• Whet Moser
• December 30, 2020

The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable

The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence.

• Dani Alexis Ryskamp
• December 29, 2020

The Christmas Crisis

America needs Christmas cheer more than ever. Maybe next year.

• Emma Green
• December 25, 2020

The Risk of John Kerry Following His Own China Policy

Any progress on climate change will be lost if the frame is one of a grand bargain with Beijing.

• Thomas Wright
• December 22, 2020

Perhaps Buttigieg Was the Perfect Pick

Biden’s choices say a lot about his theory of governing.

• David A. Graham
• December 18, 2020

A Day of Deaths 25 Percent Higher Than Spring’s Worst

For the second week in a row, more COVID-19 deaths were reported in the U.S. than at any other time in the pandemic.

• The COVID Tracking Project
• December 17, 2020

If You Didn’t Vote for Trump, Your Vote Is Fraudulent

The president’s supporters believe that the votes of rival constituencies should not count—even though they understand, on some level, that they do.

• Adam Serwer
• December 10, 2020

The Trump Administration’s Double Standard of Justice

A federal judge will decide next month whether the U.S. legal system treats presidential allies differently from presidential antagonists.

• Ankush Khardori
• December 10, 2020

The Public-Health Value of Speaking Plainly

An interview with the infectious-disease expert and community health provider Lisa Fitzpatrick

• Conor Friedersdorf
• December 10, 2020

The Secret Internet of TERFs

After they were banned from Reddit, trans-exclusionary radical feminists became the latest of many toxic communities to simply build their own platform.

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• December 8, 2020

‘This Must Be Your First’

Acting as if Trump is trying to stage a coup is the best way to ensure he won’t.

• Zeynep Tufekci
• December 7, 2020

The Supreme Court Is Colliding With a Less-Religious America

Justices’ drive to promote “religious liberty” may only become more intense.

• Ronald Brownstein
• December 3, 2020

Stop Scapegoating Progressives

Democrats need elected officials to do what Trump never did: Accept responsibility. Absorb criticism. Come back and campaign better.

• Ibram X. Kendi
• December 3, 2020

Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing

The story of the coronavirus in the state is one of government inaction in the name of freedom and personal responsibility.

• Elaine Godfrey
• December 3, 2020

The Dangerous Blind Spot of The Undoing

The show treats domestic violence like a striptease.

• Eve Gerber
• December 2, 2020

The Nazi Inspiring China’s Communists

A decades-old legal argument used by Hitler has found support in Beijing.

• Chang Che
• December 1, 2020