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Getty; The Atlantic BlackRock Is Not Ruining the U.S. Housing Market
The real villain isn’t a faceless Wall Street Goliath; it’s your neighbors and local governments stopping the construction of new units.
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Abir Sultan / AFP / Getty; Joe Raedle … Democracy Is Surprisingly Easy to Undermine
Politicians around the world are borrowing Trump’s “Stop the Steal” tactics. These false fraud allegations are profoundly dangerous.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic There Once Was a Republican Fight for D.C. Statehood
RIP
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Joe Raedle / Getty It’s Not Too Late to Avert a Historic Shame
As the U.S. military prepares to leave Afghanistan, it’s running out of time to evacuate the Afghans who have helped the United States.
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Courtesy of Elisha Haas Kids Need Dirt and Danger
Malka Haas turned children loose to play with discarded objects, giving them a different sort of preparation for life.
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Getty; The Atlantic Fox News Gets a British Accent
The U.K.’s newest television channel bets that American–style grievance politics will succeed in a much stuffier media market.
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Hulton Archive / Lawrence Thornton / Archive Photos … America’s ‘Great Chief Justice’ Was an Unrepentant Slaveholder
John Marshall not only owned people; he owned many of them, and aggressively bought them when he could.
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Matthew Hatcher / Getty Extremism Has Spread Into the Mainstream
It is a public-health problem, not a security issue.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty What Ilhan Omar Actually Said
No one should believe that Omar thinks the United States is identical to the Taliban.
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Illustration by Alicia Tatone; Images: David Arky / … The False Hope of the Progressive-Prosecutor Movement
Well-intentioned reformers can’t fix the criminal legal system. They have to start relinquishing power.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic Winners and Losers of the Work-From-Home Revolution
High-income workers at highly profitable companies will benefit greatly. Downtown landlords won’t.
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The Atlantic The Myth of a Majority-Minority America
The narrative that nonwhite people will soon outnumber white people is not only divisive, but also false.
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Douglas R. Clifford / Tampa Bay Times / … The Public-Health Calculus Has Shifted
Mandates and restrictions have a logical endpoint: when people can protect themselves through vaccination.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The NYC Mayor’s Race Is a Warning for Progressives
Polls suggest the left will lose out in the city arguably leading the socialist revival in the United States.
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Jonathan Knowles / Getty The One-Size-Fits-All Narrative of Your 20s Needs to Change
Your 20s don’t have to be the “best time of your life.”
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GABRIELLA DEMCZUK / The New York Times / … Justice Breyer’s Legacy-Defining Decision
The longer Breyer remains, the more likely a Republican president choosing his successor becomes.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Trump’s DOJ Was More Dangerous Than We Knew
Revelations since Biden’s inauguration are adding detail to a portrait of ethical decay at the department.
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Associated Press; Popperfoto / Getty; Paul Spella / … Trumpists Are America’s Jacobites
45 meets the ’45. Outlander meets outlandish.
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Glasshouse Images / Getty; Adam Maida / The … The Drug That Could Break American Health Care
Aduhelm, the first new Alzheimer’s drug in 18 years, may not work. But states and Medicare might pay billions of dollars for it anyway.
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Pier Paolo Cito / Associated Press The Moral Catastrophe Unfolding in Afghanistan
If no action is taken, we are, in effect, sentencing our interpreters to death at the hands of the Taliban.
