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GraphicaArtis / Getty People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Booster-Shot Debate Was a Debacle
An autopsy of the long, fractious, and bewildering public argument over COVID boosters
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Searchlight Pictures / Everett Wes Anderson’s Whimsy Goes Too Far
At its best, The French Dispatch mixes madcap fun, gentle satire, and earnestness. At its worst, it’s exhausting.
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Brook Mitchell / Getty Photos of the Week: Pony Man, Ancient Sword, Foam Fight
Container ships at the Port of Los Angeles, morning light on mountains in Switzerland, a wearable soft toy in France, drag racing in Tennessee, glacier exploration in Austria, and much more
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Paul Ellis / AFT / Getty The Atlantic Daily: A Guide to Mixing COVID Boosters
Should you switch brands or stick with your original?
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Courtesy of HBO; Charlie Le Maignan; The Atlantic ‘It’s a Safe Space for Mean Humor’
The boar is on the floor. The Greggs are in the Tomelettes. And Season 3 of Succession is finally here.
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Ali Kahfi / Getty; Corbis / Getty; The … The Metaverse Is Bad
It is not a world in a headset but a fantasy of power.
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Saul Santos / AP The Ongoing Volcanic Eruption in the Canary Islands
A month of lava flows and ashfall has taken a toll on several small towns on the island of La Palma.
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Jacques Le Roux / iStock / Getty African Elephants Evolved Tusklessness Amazingly Fast
But at what cost?
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Ed Kashi / VII / Redux ‘Self-Care’ Isn’t the Fix for Late-Pandemic Malaise
What we need is to take care of others.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic My Daily Life Is a Game of Roulette
Medicine has never been about certainty, but odds.
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Jan Buchczik The Meaning of Life Is Surprisingly Simple
You can make your quest for meaning manageable by breaking it down into three bite-size dimensions.
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Diego Ibarra Sanchez / Getty What the Loss of Freedom Feels Like
In three distinct and different places, a similar sense of loss—of liberal values, of hope—is overwhelming.
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Mitch Boyer The Experiment Podcast: Justice, Interrupted
The highest court in America isn’t safe from mansplaining. A new set of rules for oral argument may change things.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: The ‘Big Quit’ Tells a Bigger Economic Story
Americans are still resigning at unprecedented rates. This is a moment of fascinating decentralization, one of our writers argues.
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Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / Getty What Does Joe Manchin Do Now?
The fate of the Democrats’ push for voting-rights legislation lies once again in the hands of one senator from West Virginia.
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The Atlantic The Good Part About ‘Waning’ Immunity
You might have fewer antibodies now. But they’re better than the ones you started with.
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David Steets / laif / Redux The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people.
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Johan De Ridder / cupoty.com Winners of the 2021 Close-up Photographer of the Year
Some of the winning and honored images from this year’s competition in close-up, macro, and micro photography
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Craig Warga / Bloomberg / Getty A Worrisome Peek Inside Yale Law’s Diversity Bureaucracy
A bizarre controversy over a party invitation exposes choices typically made behind closed doors at an elite school.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP John Eastman Is Not a Victim of Cancel Culture
Trying to overthrow a democratic election is categorically different from holding an unpopular opinion.
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Warner Bros. Pictures Dune Is Epic, but That’s Not Why It’s Great
A new film adaptation of the best seller has a colossal budget and an all-star cast—but its emotional depth is what sets it apart.
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Zeb Andrews / Getty The Key Insight That Defined 50 Years of Climate Science
A climate scientist has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the first time. It’s a reminder that the field, which emerged from the mid-20th century’s biggest questions, hasn’t always been fraught.
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The Atlantic The Simplest Fix to America’s Rent Problem
The country’s voucher-focused help for American renters is mired in red tape, and many landlords opt out. Would cash work better?
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Samuel Corum / Getty Kyrsten Sinema Isn’t Hitting the Panic Button
The senator from Arizona doesn’t seem rattled by progressives’ threats to primary her—and it’s not clear she should be.
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Jacques-Louis David / Musée du Louvre; The Atlantic Sometimes Altruism Needs to Be Enforced
Controlling COVID-19 requires a selflessness that comes naturally. Ironically, we still have to coerce it.
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Getty; The Atlantic How Hong Kong’s Elite Turned on Democracy
Beijing’s bludgeoning of the prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong would not have been possible without the enthusiastic help of willing collaborators.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: A Future Without the Flu?
The knowledge we’ve gained during the pandemic could help us in the fight against other illnesses.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Most Famous Low-Wage Workers in the Country
Players in the National Women’s Soccer League are speaking up about the abusive work environments that can develop when women are underpaid.
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© Mauricio Narea / The 12th Epson International … Winners of the 2021 Epson International Pano Awards
The 12th annual panoramic-photo competition has just come to a close, and the winning images and finalists have been announced.
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