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Getty / The Atlantic Democrats’ SCOTUS Message Could Really Work in Swing States
The party may have an easier time taking back the Senate if it focuses voters’ attention on the Court’s impact on health care.
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TIFF 76 Days Is Unwatchable Yet Utterly Compelling
The first major documentary about the coronavirus pandemic is a brutal look at the earliest days of the outbreak in Wuhan, China.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic 5 Ways the Health-Care System Can Stop Amplifying Racism
Instead of reducing disparities, the industry makes them worse. Here’s how to change that.
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Matt McClain / Getty / The Atlantic The Fanatic
Bill Barr is convinced that the country is betraying its founding—and that it’s up to him to stop it.
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The Atlantic The Blob Meets the Heartland
Foreign policy should work better for America’s middle class.
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Bettmann / Getty Telling the Truth About Slavery Is Not ‘Indoctrination’
Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.
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Jan Buchczik What to Do When the Future Feels Hopeless
Humans like to feel optimistic about and in control of where their life is headed. The pandemic has made it very hard to feel that way.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Democrats’ Supreme Court Hail Mary
This is the progressive case for court packing in a nutshell: “If your wallet is stolen, you don’t forgo efforts to recover it just because it might be stolen again.”
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JOHN THYS / Getty Bill Gates: The Pandemic Has Erased Years of Progress
“If you only look at COVID deaths, you’re actually missing the scale of the setback.”
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Illustrations by Guillem Casasús / Renderings by Borja ... The Atlantic Daily: A Q&A With Barton Gellman
No matter the outcome, President Donald Trump will not concede the presidential race, our reporter posits.
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David Hume Kennerly / Getty RBG’s Fingerprints Are All Over Your Everyday Life
She expanded the possibilities of family life and work—for women and for men.
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The Atlantic Reddit Squashed QAnon by Accident
Two years ago, Reddit had the internet’s biggest QAnon problem. Today, that problem is gone—but the company can’t really explain why.
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Charles Dharapak / AP Photos: Remembering the Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Images from the life of an iconic woman, and from the memorials in recent days
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Mandel Ngan / Getty Fauci to a Meddling HHS Official: ‘Take a Hike’
The nation’s top public-health expert addresses political interference in the COVID-19 response, but urges Americans to focus on the winter ahead.
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Julian Montague Paging Dr. Hamblin: What If the Vaccine Works Only Half the Time?
A coronavirus vaccine doesn’t need to be perfect to still be valuable.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Election Is Already Under Way in America’s Courts
And the two parties—and the judges they have appointed—are on completely divergent legal paths.
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Illustrations by Guillem Casasús / Renderings by Borja ... The Election That Could Break America
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
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Win McNamee / Getty Trump Takes Away a Lifeline for Swing-State Senators
By moving forward with the Supreme Court confirmation, the president is giving lawmakers little space to carve out an independent identity that could help them win reelection.
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The Atlantic Daily: Why the U.S. Stopped Caring About COVID-19 Deaths
Another tragic milestone arrives.
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Marco Ugarte / AP Animals in the News
Time again for a look at the animal kingdom and our interactions with the countless species that share our planet
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Biden Is in Denial About the Republican Party
The Democratic nominee insists that he can restore bipartisan comity on Capitol Hill. GOP senators suggest otherwise.
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Al Drago / The New York Times / ... Is This Really the End of Abortion?
Democrats might crush Republicans in November. With a 6–3 conservative Supreme Court majority, abortion rights could still be decimated.
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Alex Wong / Getty Can Democrats Stop the Nomination?
Four questions that could determine whether Mitch McConnell can push through a Trump Supreme Court nominee
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Getty / The Atlantic A Failure of Empathy Led to 200,000 Deaths. It Has Deep Roots.
One giant psychology experiment explains why many people seem like they don’t care about the deaths of the elderly.
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Jae C. Hong / AP The Failure of Mulan Is More Bad News for Hollywood
The film’s disappointing release is further evidence that the pandemic is defeating blockbuster movies.
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Preston Gannaway The Rise of the 3-Parent Family
The typical path to parenthood didn’t work for David Jay, a founder of the asexual movement. So he designed his own household—and is trying to show others what is possible.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty We Live in a Potemkin Autocracy Now
The White House memo declaring New York City, Portland, and Seattle “anarchist jurisdictions” isn’t federalism; it’s half-baked feudalism.
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Julie Cockburn The Pandemic Has Remade Friendship
Every relationship is long-distance now—and that’s a good thing.
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Getty / The Atlantic RBG’s Greatest Insight
The justice understood that the two great principles of American democracy—equality and liberty—are not at odds, but rather integral to each other.
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Ringo Chiu / AFP / Getty The United States Has Become a Disaster Area
Hurricanes in the Gulf, fires in the West, the coronavirus everywhere—the country is a mess.
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