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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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Nathaniel Wilder / Reuters Scenes From the 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
COVID-19 precautions forced the trail to be altered, but the 49th running of the Iditarod still took place.
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Illustration by Mike McQuade* American Special Ops Forces Are Everywhere
They’ve become a major military player—and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking.
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Ben Blackall / BBC / HBO The Sad Déjà Vu of It’s a Sin
The beautifully made HBO/Channel 4 miniseries about gay men in 1980s London can’t help but show the way that tragedies become tropes.
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Illustration by Oliver Munday and Arsh Raziuddin; rendering … Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene
Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Supreme Court Needs to Show Its Work
For an institution whose legitimacy depends largely on the public’s perception of its integrity, the growth of unseen, unsigned, and unexplained decisions can only be a bad thing.
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Illustration by Yoshi Sodeoka; images by Universal History … How to Put Out Democracy’s Dumpster Fire
Our democratic habits have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.
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Hulton Archive / Kean Collection / Getty / … Guns Are a Threat to the Body Politic
America must regulate guns not only to protect life, but to protect its citizens’ equal freedoms to speak, assemble, worship, and vote without fear.
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Mark Lennihan / AP America’s Andrew Cuomo Problem
Why was the New York governor’s reckoning so long in coming?
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Texas’s Disaster Is Over. The Fallout Is Just Beginning.
Will Republican officials in the state pay a price for the recent blackouts?
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