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The Atlantic Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.
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Getty / The Atlantic Ellen’s Celebrity Defenders Aren’t Helping Her
The comedian’s employees say that fame has enabled callousness and abuse on her show. The warm testimonies of her superstar friends highlight their point.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically
Three predictions for what the future might look like
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Brian L. Frank / The New York Times ... The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.
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The Atlantic College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots
How I got co-opted into helping the rich prevail at the expense of everybody else
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Dina Litovsky / Redux How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
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Another Lesson from the Roman Empire
A year ago, I published a piece in the print magazine about that long-standing object of American fascination, the Roman…
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Samuel Corum / Getty / NIH / The ... The Amazing Disappearing Election
Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?
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The Atlantic One Legacy of the Pandemic May Be Less Judgment of the Child-Free
The coronavirus could change lingering cultural assumptions about what makes for a full and happy life.
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The Atlantic Trump Has Launched a Three-Pronged Attack on the Election
And it starts with undermining the U.S. Postal Service.
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AUDRA MELTON / The New York Times / ... I’m a Nurse in New York. Teachers Should Do Their Jobs, Just Like I Did.
Schools are essential to the functioning of our society, and that makes teachers essential workers.
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The Atlantic Is This the Beginning of the End of American Racism?
Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and has inadvertently forced a reckoning.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock We Need to Talk About Ventilation
How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?
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Arsh Raziuddin The Prophecies of Q
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.
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AFP / Getty The Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion
Images of the widespread damage in Beirut, a day after the devastating blast
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The Atlantic A Vaccine Reality Check
So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.
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The Atlantic The Problem With the ‘Judeo-Christian Tradition’
The concept was always an unstable foundation on which to build a common American identity.
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Getty / The Atlantic Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
People are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.
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Di Studio / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Problem With ‘Hey Guys’
A broad coalition of English speakers—teachers, retail workers, ice-cream scoopers, and plenty of others—is grasping for a more inclusive greeting.
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Xinhua / eyevine / Redux America’s Prosecutors Know What Bill Barr Did Was Wrong
His actions in U.S. v. Stone strike at the heart of the Aristotelian principle central to the rule of law, that we treat likes alike.
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