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Adam Maida France Is Officially Color-Blind. Reality Isn’t.
The country’s prestigious grandes écoles illustrate the gulf between its universal ideals and its day-to-day life.
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Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters Photos: Deadly Flooding in Japan
Days of unprecedented rainfall have caused rivers to overflow their banks, sweeping away bridges and roads, thereby cutting off many communities.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic A Nationalist’s Guide to Stepping Back From the Brink
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi demonstrates how to de-escalate a conflict while also saving face.
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Antonio Masiello / Getty The Colorful Blooms of Castelluccio, Italy
Vast fields of lentils and poppies blooming in central Italy
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why China Wants Trump to Win
Four more years might present tantalizing opportunities for Beijing to expand its influence around East Asia and the world.
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PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy How J. K. Rowling Became Voldemort
The backlash against the Harry Potter creator is a growing pain of her fandom.
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Mahmud Hams / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Pride Lights, Paddy Day, Grizzly Swim
A new waterslide in the Czech Republic, a cat on the Algerian waterfront, a grotto reopening in Italy, burying a coronavirus victim in Russia, a wildfire in Colorado, and much more
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Shahid Ali / AFP / Getty Photos: The Locust Swarms of 2020
Images from hard-hit areas in Kenya, Pakistan, India, Nepal, and Yemen, taken over recent months
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Anthony Wallace / AFP / Getty Hong Kong Is a Colony Once More
With a far-reaching national-security law, overlords in a distant capital are again making decisions on the city’s behalf.
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Michelle Sole / Shutterstock Scenes From Antarctica
Recent images of the Antarctic landscape, wildlife, and research facilities, as well as some of the work taking place there
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Getty / CSA / The Atlantic Don’t Build Roads, Open Schools
The idea of child care as women’s (unpaid) work holds the issue back in political discussions.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Conservative Case for Liberalizing Divorce
Britain has finally passed a new law allowing for no-fault divorce, all without a culture war.
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AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Yoga Dome, Iron Lady, Speedo Mick
Mountaintop yoga in China, a sunrise over Glastonbury Tor, a sneaky gull in Denmark, a field of lavender in England, “Rays of Victory” in Russia, a concert for plants in Spain, a ski run in Australia, and much more
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Thierry Monasse / Getty The Case for a Statue of Limitations
Let communities decide which monuments should stay.
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Cristopher Rogel Blanquet / Getty Coronavirus: Thousands of Burials Across Latin America
Recent images of some of the services and memorials in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and more
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The Atlantic The Decline of the American World
Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new.
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Adam Maida The Death of Cosmopolitanism
The coronavirus outbreak has emboldened defenders of the nation-state, in Europe and beyond.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters A Solstice ‘Ring of Fire’ Solar Eclipse
Photographers across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia captured the celestial phenomenon and many of its observers.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty / The Atlantic The ‘Absurd’ New Reality of Reporting From the U.S.
The role of Washington correspondent has long been one of the most prized postings in international journalism.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photos of the Week: Soccer Zoom, Wading Elk, Global Rainbow
Continued burials of coronavirus victims in Chile, dinosaur art in Shanghai, ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism worldwide, workout pods in California, a horse named Mr. Glitter Sparkles in England, and much more
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