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1 Hillbilly Elegy Doesn’t Reflect the Appalachia I Know

The movie and book don’t show the positive side of the area, because that wouldn’t serve the story’s purposes.

Cassie Chambers Armstrong

2 The Logic of Pandemic Restrictions Is Falling Apart

This is why you can eat in a restaurant but can’t have Thanksgiving.

Amanda Mull

A photo of two road-side signs. One says, "Salon is open!" The other says, "Stay home and stay safe!"

3 Don’t Subject Your Kids to Rudolph

The world is bleak enough as it is.

Caitlin Flanagan

photo illustration of Rudolph with dripping red nose

4 Here Comes the COVID-19 Baby Bust

The U.S. could have hundreds of thousands of fewer births next year than it would have in the absence of a pandemic.

Joe Pinsker

Folded blankets sit atop a cart for newborn babies.

5 ‘No One Is Listening to Us’

More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.

Ed Yong

Romelia Navarro is comforted by Michele Younkin, a nurse, while sitting at the bedside of her dying husband.

6 Hillbilly Elegy Is One of the Worst Movies of the Year

The new Netflix film is a think-piece trap—shiny on the outside, hollow on the inside.

David Sims

Amy Adams as Beverly Vance in "Hillbilly Elegy"

7 Progressives Can’t Repeat the Mistakes of 2008

For the left to be effective in a post-Trump Washington, it must avoid the culture of deference that set in after Obama’s victory.

Luke Savage

8 The Last Children of Down Syndrome

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.

Sarah Zhang

9 The Damage Will Last

The precedents Trump has set, the doubts he has sown, and the claims he has made will linger.

Uri Friedman

10 Is American Healing Even Possible?

In an extended interview, the Reverend William J. Barber II explains why healing the soul of the nation will take more than returning to “normal.”

Adam Harris

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1 Hillbilly Elegy Doesn’t Reflect the Appalachia I Know

2 The Logic of Pandemic Restrictions Is Falling Apart

3 Don’t Subject Your Kids to Rudolph

4 Here Comes the COVID-19 Baby Bust

5 ‘No One Is Listening to Us’

6 Hillbilly Elegy Is One of the Worst Movies of the Year

7 Progressives Can’t Repeat the Mistakes of 2008

8 The Last Children of Down Syndrome

9 The Damage Will Last

10 Is American Healing Even Possible?

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