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The Atlantic Daily: Vaccinated America Is Distracted by Its New Freedoms

Residents might be tempted to talk about the pandemic in the past tense, but we’ll need to stay in this together to end it for good.

• Caroline Mimbs Nyce
• June 9, 2021

Jeff Bezos Has Reached His Final Form

The Amazon billionaire is going to fly to space this year. So might Richard Branson. Has anyone checked with Elon Musk?

• Marina Koren
• June 9, 2021

Joe Manchin Can’t Have It Both Ways

If the right to vote is fundamental, then it cannot be subject to veto by partisans who benefit from disenfranchisement.

• Adam Serwer
• June 9, 2021

Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain

“Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.”

• Ed Yong
• June 9, 2021

A Marvel Series That Cares Little for Marvel’s Universe

For more than a decade, the studio’s films and shows have been paragons of careful continuity. So far, Loki does away with that.

• Shirley Li
• June 9, 2021

Hollywood’s New Crown Prince of Musicals

Jon M. Chu, the director of In the Heights and Wicked, is finding a new edge in an old genre.

• Shirley Li
• June 9, 2021

This Pandemic Isn’t Over

The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.

• Jim Downs
• June 9, 2021

Princeton Dumbs Down Classics

And that might be the right way to save classics from oblivion.

• Graeme Wood
• June 9, 2021

The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting

We understand how this will end. But who bears the risk that remains?

• Ed Yong
• June 9, 2021

Not That Innocent

Most people on death row are guilty. That doesn’t mean they deserve their fate.

• Elizabeth Bruenig
• June 9, 2021

A Crumpled, Dried-Out Relic of the Pandemic

I returned to my office and found an apple that had somehow not rotted away.

• Rachel Gutman
• June 9, 2021

The Disturbing New Hybrid of Democracy and Autocracy

In Poland and elsewhere, rulers—and the oligarchs who help them—have figured out how to create a one-party state without the hassle of staging a coup.  

• Anne Applebaum
• June 9, 2021

Joe Biden Worries That China Might Win

The president has put his finger on an important geopolitical development.

• Thomas Wright
• June 9, 2021

The Atlantic Daily: America Isn’t Split in Half. It’s Divided Into Four.

The country has fragmented into four groups, our writer argues, each informed by a distinct narrative about the nation’s moral identity.

• Caroline Mimbs Nyce
• June 8, 2021

Immune Cells Are More Paranoid Than We Thought

Healthy birds watched their friends get sick with a bacterial disease. Their immune cells freaked out.

• Katherine J. Wu
• June 8, 2021

On Top of Everything Else, the Pandemic Messed With Our Morals

The traumas of the past year have left some people wrestling with an awful question: Am I still a good person?

• Jonathan Moens
• June 8, 2021

Everything Is Overcomplicated

An internet outage exposes the gap between how we think technology might work and how it actually does.

• Samuel Arbesman
• June 8, 2021

The Logic of the Filing Cabinet Is Everywhere

A captivating new history helps us see the humble appliance’s sweeping influence on modern life.

• An Xiao Mina
• June 8, 2021

What Mia Farrow Knew

Farrow says she witnessed disturbing and occasionally ghastly things for years. Why didn’t she act earlier?

• Caitlin Flanagan
• June 8, 2021

To Find the History of African American Women, Look to Their Handiwork

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

• Tiya Miles
• June 8, 2021

Homeroom: The Pandemic’s Potential Silver Lining for Kids

Each child will process this time differently, and adults can help kids find opportunity in the life that awaits them.

• Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer
• June 8, 2021

The Evangelical Politician Who Doesn’t Recognize His Faith—Or His Party

Bill Haslam, the former governor of Tennessee, is trying to figure out how religious Republicans got so extreme.

• Emma Green
• June 8, 2021

What Is Pete Buttigieg Doing?

The secretary of transportation is on the road, talking infrastructure with anyone who will listen.

• Edward-Isaac Dovere
• June 8, 2021

The Atlantic Daily: Inside 10 Downing Street With Boris Johnson

The British prime minister knows exactly what he’s doing, one of our writers argues. Then: How did a meditation app become a billion-dollar business?

• Caroline Mimbs Nyce
• June 7, 2021

The Scandal Rocking the Evangelical World

The sudden departure of Russell Moore is forcing an overdue conversation about the crises of American Christendom.

• Peter Wehner
• June 7, 2021

The Problem With Dropping Standards in the Name of Racial Equity

By ending a requirement that classics majors learn Greek or Latin, Princeton risks amplifying racism instead of curing it.

• John McWhorter
• June 7, 2021

The Pandemic Has Undone South Africa’s National Parks

Without tourism, the funding that sustains some of the world’s most treasured wildlife has atrophied.

• Adam Welz
• June 7, 2021