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1 Do Americans Understand How Badly They’re Doing?

In France, where I live, the virus is under control. I can hardly believe the news coming out of the United States.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

2 The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything

Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

James Fallows

3 Believe the Polls This Time

These aren’t Hillary Clinton’s numbers. Biden has a wide lead because the landscape has changed.

Stanley Greenberg

4 A Cheap, Race-Neutral Way to Close the Racial Wealth Gap

It’s time to try baby bonds.

Annie Lowrey

An illustration of a baby hand holding money.

5 Oklahomans Just Embarrassed Trump a Second Time

Not long after the president’s Tulsa rally fizzled, red-state voters chose to expand Medicaid.

David A. Graham

6 20 Books to Read in Quarantine This Summer

Our picks for immersive, escapist, or nostalgic reading—wherever you are

The Atlantic Culture Desk

7 The Prophecies of Q

American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.

Adrienne LaFrance

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

9 A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

Higher education is often described as an investment. But it’s still unclear if it pays off in happiness.

Arthur C. Brooks

A person rides an ambulatory smiley face in the opposite direction of pointing signs.

10 The Birdsong That Took Over North America

Since 2000, a strange new type of song in white-throated sparrows has spread across the continent at stunning speed.

Sarah Zhang

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1 Do Americans Understand How Badly They’re Doing?

2 The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything

3 Believe the Polls This Time

4 A Cheap, Race-Neutral Way to Close the Racial Wealth Gap

5 Oklahomans Just Embarrassed Trump a Second Time

6 20 Books to Read in Quarantine This Summer

7 The Prophecies of Q

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9 A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life

10 The Birdsong That Took Over North America

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