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1 Mars Is a Hellhole

Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity.

Shannon Stirone
2 5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating

We can learn from our failures.

Zeynep Tufekci
3 The Surprising Key to Combatting Vaccine Refusal

It’s not just one problem—and we’re going to need a portfolio of approaches to solve it.

Derek Thompson
4 The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages

The GOP has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s.

Tom Nichols
5 The Man Who Refused to Bow

Adam Kinzinger says he’ll fight to take his party back from Donald Trump.

Peter Wehner
6 The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty Toward the Elderly

A global pandemic doesn’t give us cause to treat the aged callously.

Shai Held
7 The Second COVID-19 Shot Is a Rude Reawakening for Immune Cells

Side effects are just a sign that protection is kicking in as it should.

Katherine J. Wu
8 Nomadland Is a Gorgeous Journey Through the Wreckage of American Promise

Chloé Zhao’s Oscar contender about one woman’s itinerant life speaks volumes about this country’s myths of self-sufficiency.

David Sims
9 The False Dilemma of Post-Vaccination Risk

We’ll never know for sure how contagious people are after they’re vaccinated, but we do know how they should act.

James Hamblin
10 The Most Likely Timeline for Life to Return to Normal

An uncertain spring, an amazing summer, a cautious fall and winter, and then, finally, relief.

Joe Pinsker