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KIANA HAYERI/The New York Times/Redux America Will Have to Reckon With Its Cynicism About Afghanistan
I was deployed in Afghanistan, and by the end, I thought the situation was hopeless. But my cynicism eventually melted away, as I suppose America’s will.
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Getty / The Atlantic The War on Trans Kids Is Totally Unconstitutional
States do not have a defensible reason for denying children recommended medical care.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Don’t Take the Narrow View of What’s Happening in Gaza
Wars and skirmishes don’t occur in a vacuum.
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Getty / The Atlantic Can Civics Save America?
Teaching civics could restore health to American democracy, or inflame our mutual antagonisms.
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Gian MASKO / AFP / Getty The Collapse of a Once-Promising Democracy
In Peru, a nation once marked by its successful fight against poverty, voters now face a pair of unappealing alternatives.
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ED JONES / AFP / Getty The CDC’s Big Mask Surprise Came Out of Nowhere
The agency’s communication strategy has lagged so consistently behind the research that it’s brought new meaning to the concept of “following the science.”
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Melissa Ann PInney Schools Must Open This Fall. In Person. Five Days a Week.
The American Federation of Teachers, which I lead, is committed to making this happen.
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How FDR Changed Political Communication
The renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has a new project called UNUM, about the sources of connection rather than separation…
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Alamy / … Put Anthony Fauci in a Dunk Tank
The three populist pillars of a new approach to vaccinating America: beer, bacon, and lottery tickets
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up
Today’s economic conditions are not just holding Millennials back. They are stratifying them, leading to unequal experiences within the generation as well as between it and other cohorts.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic American Kids Can Wait
The U.S. should delay shots for children until global vaccine-manufacturing capacity significantly expands and the crisis in India subsides.
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Chinatopix / AP The Lost Month That Haunts the World
And points to how we prevent the next pandemic.
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JOEL SAGET/ AFP /Getty I Tell My Patients Not to Mask Their Kids Outside
For most young people, the social and emotional benefits of taking masks off outdoors greatly outweigh the personal and public-health advantages of keeping them on.
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Thierry Falise / LightRocket / Getty Unearthing an Origin Story for Gentrification
The growth of the medieval city of Angkor involved wealthy elites pushing people off the land they had made valuable.
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Getty / The Atlantic 3 Explanations for the Vaccine Slowdown
Daily shots are plummeting. Why?
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty America’s Is-Ought Problem
The job of a news reporter today is to declare what you can’t yet know to people convinced that they already do.
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Getty / The Atlantic On Substack, You Can Never Go Too Far
The popular newsletter service is changing the media business—and selling soap operas to people who think they’re above soap operas.
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Paul Spella Why Confederate Lies Live On
For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.
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Mauro Pimentel / AFP / Getty COVID-19 Lays Bare the Price of Populism
A raging outbreak in Brazil threatens gains against the virus.
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Wikipedia / The Atlantic The Man Who Should Be Merrick Garland’s Role Model
The new attorney general has inherited a department plagued by scandal, just as Edward Levi did in 1975.
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