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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: The Dedication of the Living
The president promised to keep unauthorized immigrant families together. Plus what it’s like to change careers, advice for aging, and more.
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New York Public Library The Meaninglessness of the Stock Market Index in a Digital World
It’s not a good snapshot of the economy, which is incomprehensible anyway, and we now have far more information to understand the country’s companies.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: A Sign of the Times
President Trump signed an executive order he said would end his administration’s policy of separating families at the border.
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John Moore / Getty On the Border With the Photographer John Moore
A collection of images from the southern U.S. border by the Getty Images photographer John Moore, showing the landscape, those who patrol the border, and those who choose to risk everything to cross it.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Trump Says He Will End the Family Separations He Imposed
The president said he plans to sign an executive order keeping undocumented immigrant children with their parents, but the plan contradicts his earlier statement and might be illegal.
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Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters The UN Human Rights Council Is a Deeply Flawed Body
The U.S., which withdrew from the organization Tuesday, had sought to reform it.
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Gloria Oh How to Fix the Health Gap Between Black and White America
The Atlantic convenes health experts to find solutions.
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ProPublica How to Look Away
A corollary to a politics of destabilized truth is a politics of destabilized empathy.
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Neil Orman / AAAS Why Would You Want a Prosthetic Hand That Feels Pain?
“After many years I felt my hand, as if a hollow shell, got filled with life again.”
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Matthew Busch / Getty / Jonathan Daniels / ... How the Carmakers Trumped Themselves
Automakers wanted rule changes. But not, they say, these rule changes.
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Blend Images / KidStock / Getty / Katie ... The Exceptional Cruelty of a No-Hugging Policy
When kids separated from their families on the U.S.-Mexico border can’t get hugs or physical comfort from the caretakers at their shelters—or even from one another—their experience becomes even more traumatic.
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Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Republicans Are Lost on Immigration
Mixed directives from Trump have left Republicans yet another obstacle in their path to immigration reform.
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John Moore / Getty Trumpism, Realized
To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP The Clinical Case for Keeping Families Together
Two practitioners apply a decade of research on Central American families to understand the impacts of the administration’s new policy.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters The Brazilian Spring That Never Arrived
How the hopeful protests of June 2013 were co-opted by forces intent on bringing down the left.
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Disney / Pixar What Incredibles 2 Says About Hero Worship
Brad Bird’s sequel to his 2004 classic is a pointed response to the increasing ubiquity of comic-book movies.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Enforce the Border—Humanely
Countering Trump’s extremism with still more extremism will do no good for any principle of freedom.
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Jack Taylor / Stringer / Getty Brexit Could Cripple Britain’s Ports
Technology has streamlined Dover, the busiest port in the United Kingdom. But nothing has prepared it for the Brexit transition.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Tucker Carlson Is Hurting America Again
As a demagogic president seeks to escape accountability by attacking the press, a Fox News host is irresponsibly echoing his sweeping attacks on mainstream outlets.
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Hulu Gilead in America
In The Handmaid’s Tale, a callous, theocratic regime uses scripture to justify forcibly removing children from their parents.
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Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters Trump’s Insidious Reason for Leaving the UN Human Rights Council
While his administration cited its criticism of Israel, the White House also wants to distance itself from a body critical of its own policies.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I'm Turning 50 and Panicking About My Appearance
I know looks aren’t everything, but I can’t stand the way my body is changing as I age.
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Josh Cochran What Petty Nextdoor Posts Reveal About America
The hyperlocal social-media platform highlights small grievances—and proves that neighbors have more in common than they think.
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Talia Herman The Immigrants Fueling the Gig Economy
The short-term promise of easy cash can trap individuals in bad long-term conditions.
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Nigel Dell / Getty Parasites Can Mind-Control Animals Without Infecting Them
In 2018, everything is a metaphor.
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Bill Varie / Corbis / Getty Exit Interview
A series of conversations about being fired, retired, aged out, and laid off
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Force of Ageism
“So often, I see signs that they’re looking for someone younger. Ads ask for ‘digital natives’ and people who ‘live, eat, and dream social media.’”
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic When a Job Is Just Too Much
James T. Green landed his dream job right out of college. But when workplace stress collided with a tumultuous period in his own life, he decided he needed to quit to save his health.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic When Changing Your Career Means Changing Your Identity
In 1966, Nancy Bancroft entered a convent, took the habit, and changed her name. Seven years later, she chose to leave—and rejoined a radically changed world.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Never-Ending Struggle to Sustain a Small Business
Delissa Reynolds, an actress, ran a popular local bar for years, until the neighborhood changed.
