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1 You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus

Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.

James Hamblin

2 The ‘Dating Market’ Is Getting Worse

The old but newly popular notion that one’s love life can be analyzed like an economy is flawed—and it’s ruining romance.

Ashley FettersKaitlyn Tiffany

3 Venezuela Is the Eerie Endgame of Modern Politics

Citizens of a once-prosperous nation live amid the havoc created by socialism, illiberal nationalism, and political polarization.

Anne Applebaum

Protesters look at a flag of Maduro burning near Las Mercedes in Caracas.

4 Feminism’s Purity Wars

Why has Erin Pizzey, once a pioneer of the women’s movement, been written out of its history?

Helen Lewis

Activist Erin Pizzey stands in a room crowded with other women.

5 The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake

The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

David Brooks

6 I Prepared for Everything, but Not Coronavirus on a Cruise Ship

Last year, I published a thriller set on a cruise. A few weeks ago, I found myself quarantined on the Diamond Princess.

Gay Courter

7 Enacting Trump’s Revenge Campaign

The cuts to the National Security Council have less to do with making government better than with making it purer.

John Gans

8 Right Makes Might

We need a clarion call to hold the line against a tyranny from within.

Reed GalenJohn WeaverRick Wilson

Donald Trump standing in front of a painting of Abraham Lincoln

9 How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw

China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.

Zeynep Tufekci

People wearing masks walk past a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

10 The Sixty Trillion Dollar Man

The price of Bernie Sanders’s agenda could be his biggest general-election weakness. But his rivals haven’t yet forced him to explain how he’d cover the full cost.

Ronald Brownstein