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1 The Forgotten Third Amendment Could Give Pandemic-Struck America a Way Forward

An overlooked corner of the Constitution hints at a right to be protected from infection.

Alexander Zhang
2 What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?

“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”

Rhaina Cohen
3 Paging Dr. Hamblin: I Don’t See the Upside of a Flu Shot

I’m young and healthy, so what’s the point?

James Hamblin
4 Kill Your Gas Stove

It’s bad for you, and the environment. If you can afford to avoid it, you probably should.

Sabrina Imbler
5 Signed, Sealed, Delivered—Then Discarded

Signature matching—which one expert described as “witchcraft”—could lead to thousands of legitimate ballots being thrown out.

David A. Graham
6 America Will Sacrifice Anything for the College Experience

The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education.

Ian Bogost
7 The Resistance Is Just Warming Up

How anti-Trump women in America’s suburbs are ushering in a new era of political activism

Elaine Godfrey
8 The World Order That Donald Trump Revealed

When it comes to foreign policy, the president’s most important characteristic is not amorality or a lack of curiosity; it is naïveté.

Tom McTaguePeter Nicholas
9 The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents

Where the desperation of late-stage meritocracy is so strong, you can smell it

Ruth S. Barrett
10 The COVID-19 Documentary All Americans Need to See

Totally Under Control delivers a damning—and essential—report card on the White House’s mismanagement of the pandemic.

Shirley Li

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