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1 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
2 The Voyagers Found a Small Surprise in Interstellar Space

The spacecraft are still feeling the sun billions of miles from home.

Marina Koren
3 Don’t Subject Your Kids to Rudolph

The world is bleak enough as it is.

Caitlin Flanagan
4 The New Comedy of American Decline

Even works of escapism are reckoning with waning national myths.

Megan Garber
5 The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point

A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.

Robinson MeyerAlexis C. Madrigal
6 ‘I’m Not Lamenting the Existence of Marvel’

David Fincher spoke with The Atlantic about his new Netflix film, Mank, and his theory of moviemaking after 30 years in Hollywood.

David Sims
7 Photos of the Week: Taxi Ornament, Russky Bridge, Turning Torso

Aquarium dining in Singapore, the damaged Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, increasing COVID-19 cases worldwide, a drive-through Santa experience in Los Angeles, and much more

Alan Taylor
8 Galaxy Brain Is Real

Looking at the long views from the Hubble space telescope might be good for you.

Marina Koren
9 Miley Cyrus Is Perfect for the Rock-and-Roll Revival

The pop star’s career is a case study in courting public expectations by rebelling against them.

Spencer Kornhaber
10 No Corporate Tweet Will Ever Be Worse than US Airways' Tweet of a 777 Crashing Into a Vagina

So somehow, US Airways' official Twitter account tweeted a picture of a nude woman with a toy airplane inserted into her vagina.

Philip Bump

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