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Vanessa Saba What I Have Seen Running the FacesOfCOVID Twitter Feed
Throughout my months chronicling those lost to the pandemic, I’ve had the honor of bearing witness to the beauty and goodness of the lives we have lost.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Stand Against the Coming Tidal Wave of Deceit
The challenge to democratic values and institutions from Trump and his supporters is a page that will not turn.
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Peanuts / The Atlantic Charlie Brown’s Inside Job
What gives the 1965 Peanuts special its staying power?
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Seth Wenig / AP The Triumph of Kleptocracy
With Donald Trump’s pardon of Paul Manafort, kleptocracy has successfully waited out its enemies.
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Hulton Archive / Getty / The Atlantic Trump’s Pardon of Manafort Is the Realization of the Founders’ Fears
George Mason anticipated the president’s act more than 230 years ago.
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Library of Congress / Corbis / Getty / ... Trump’s Pardons Make the Unimaginable Real
He may now attempt what no one thought a president would ever try.
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Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Why I Read King Lear Each Advent
Seeing darkness is as crucial as seeing light.
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DENIS / REA / Redux The Risk of John Kerry Following His Own China Policy
Any progress on climate change will be lost if the frame is one of a grand bargain with Beijing.
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Getty / The Atlantic Trump’s Enablers Will Meet Their Shakespearean Ends
The Bard had a rich sense of the creeps and criminals, sycophants and slimeballs, weirdos and wing nuts who hang around power.
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Leah Millis / REUTERS Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive
The loyalists who still cling to conspiracy theories should be deprived of the attention they seek.
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Demetrius Freeman / The New York Times / ... Public Transit Has to Come Back
The pandemic shouldn’t become a pretext for giving up on subways and buses.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Long Can This Continue?
Trump is turning the Republican Party against democracy.
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Dominick Reuter / Getty Trump Is Losing His Mind
The president is discussing martial law in the Oval Office, as his grip on reality falters.
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Getty / The Atlantic Anti-vaxxers Think This Is Their Moment
Society’s well-being depends on how well public-health officials and average internet users combat misinformation.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty / The Atlantic How We’re Building a 21st-Century Space Force
Only by staying lean, agile, and tightly focused on our mission can we succeed in protecting the United States.
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Illustration by Trevor Davis; family photos courtesy of ... The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism
Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds we share with other nonwhite groups.
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Oli Scarff / AFP / Getty Why British Kids Went Back to School, and American Kids Did Not
Dragging pandemic policy into the culture war has been a disaster for the U.S., particularly its children.
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Tom Brenner / The New York Times / ... Trump Failed to Protect America
The president’s decision not to push back aggressively against Putin’s meddling seems only to have encouraged it.
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Drew Angerer / Getty 13 Things Trump Got Right
Nobody does nothing as president, not even someone who watches television for five or six hours a day.
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Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters Perhaps Buttigieg Was the Perfect Pick
Biden’s choices say a lot about his theory of governing.
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