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Dan Calderwood / Unsplash / The Atlantic How to Stop the Minority-Rule Doom Loop
The next two years might be America’s last chance to protect the basic democratic principle of majority rule.
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Sandy Carson / GalleryStock America Needs More Luxury Housing, Not Less
New market-rate development helps relieve pressure on local housing prices.
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Diana Walker / The Life Images Collection via … Nancy Reagan’s Real Role in the AIDS Crisis
The former first lady fought the most conservative elements of the Reagan administration in an attempt to get her husband to pay more attention to the deadly pandemic. It wasn’t enough.
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Katy Grannan Return the National Parks to the Tribes
The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.
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Martin Ostachowski / Pixabay / Pexels The Nature You See in Documentaries Is Beautiful and False
Nature documentaries mislead viewers into thinking that there are lots of untouched landscapes left. There aren’t.
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George Rinhart / Getty / Edward Curtis / … Don’t Cancel John Muir
But don’t excuse him either.
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Seeing America’s Wilderness for What It Is
Introducing a new series about this country’s natural spaces
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A Portal to Mars on the Tip of Iceland
A volcano erupting on the island is a living replica of what once happened on Mars.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Beautiful Things
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Getty / The Atlantic Beach Photos Give People the Wrong Idea
When articles about pandemic risk come with images of beachgoers, readers draw incorrect conclusions about how the coronavirus spreads.
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AP How Authoritarians Turn Rural Areas Into Their Strongholds
Across the world, leaders withhold property rights to cement their control even as they impoverish their own people.
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Manuella Dultra The Sand Octopus Was Hiding in Plain Sight
And yet it took a 19th-century naturalist, a 21st-century grad student, and some Brazilian fishers to crack the mystery.
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Getty / The Atlantic Vaccine Refusal Will Come at a Cost—For All of Us
People who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine will have higher health-care costs. The rest of us will foot the bill.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic What America’s Vaccination Campaign Proves to the World
The U.S. stumbled early in the pandemic, but the vaccine rollout could reboot the country’s image.
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ThePalmer / Getty / The Atlantic Trump’s Power Won’t Peak for Another 20 Years
By the early 2040s, Trump-appointed chief judges will simultaneously sit atop nearly every appeals court in the country.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: 7 Poems to Read This Spring
April is National Poetry Month. Writers from around our newsroom share the poems they’re turning to as the nation defrosts.
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Noam Galai / Getty The Fierce Vulnerability of DMX
The rapper, who has died at age 50, used his gruff voice to project strength—even as he spoke honestly about human weakness.
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Kevin Winter / Getty When Meanness Was Celebrated
For decades, the media have chronicled a Hollywood mega-producer’s reputation as a bully—and even praised him for it.
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Yifei Fang / Getty The Way Out of Brain Fog
One of COVID-19’s most persistent and mysterious problems finally has some treatments.
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Derek Hudson / Getty Prince Philip, a Man of His Time
The life of the Queen’s husband, who has died at 99, reflects the turbulence of the last century.
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MILLENNIUM IMAGES / GALLERY STOCK The Books Briefing: Miss the Movies? Read the Books.
Even if you're not going to theaters or streaming on demand, you can still curl up with the original works: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base
Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Biden’s infrastructure plan.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Mitch McConnell Learns It Isn’t Personal—It’s Strictly Business
The long marriage between Republicans and big business hits a rough patch.
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Dawoud Bey ‘Very American Photographs’
Street photography as collaboration
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Elliot Ross I Worry I'll Be Left Behind When the Pandemic Ends
I am chronically ill. My post-pandemic life will look a lot like my pre-pandemic life.
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The Atlantic A Better Solution Than Laminating Your Vaccine Card
Political grandstanding about vaccine passports serves no one.
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Steve Pfost/Newsday /Getty When to Reopen
Let’s stop pretending that pandemic rules that made sense in April 2020 still make sense a year later.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Hasidic, Devout, and Mad as Hell About COVID-19
Many Americans would recognize the dilemma of Reuven, an anonymous Yiddish-magazine editor who is anguished by his community’s moral failures in the pandemic.
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Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Plastic Lake, Van Cat, Burning Judas
Ballet in an empty Syrian market, a forest fire in California, a briefing by the Easter Bunny in the White House, riots in Northern Ireland, a giant sand dune in France, and much more
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: What’s Really Happening in Georgia?
Democrats and Republicans continue to spar over access to the ballot, most notably in the state of Georgia. Then: Excited for summer vacation? You aren’t alone.
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