Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Ryan Young / The New York Times / ... The One Area Where the U.S. COVID-19 Strategy Seems to Be Working
By spending lots of money and not worrying about liability, America is beating Europe in the vaccine race.
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Courtney Sacco / Caller-Times via Reuters Texas Is a Mess
Images from Texas, where residents have been coping with the harsh conditions as best they can
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Getty / The Atlantic Eric Metaxas Believes America Is Creeping Toward Nazi Germany
The pro-Trump radio host explains how he thinks about the Capitol siege and President Joe Biden’s America.
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Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive / Carnegie Museum of ... Everybody Knew Teenie
Charles “Teenie” Harris captured at least 125,000 people during the 40 years he documented Black life for The Pittsburgh Courier.
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Dan Budnik / Contact Press Images; Flip Schulke ... American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread
Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.
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Matt Williams A Forgotten Black Founding Father
Why I’ve made it my mission to teach others about Prince Hall
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Erika Goldring / Getty Preparing for “Yardi Gras” in New Orleans
A collection of images of this year’s socially distant “Yardi Gras,” as New Orleanians prepare for Mardi Gras on February 16
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Photograph by Aaron Turner; archival image from Library ... Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It
The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.
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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / ... The Knives Come Out for Josh Hawley
The elite conservative world saw the Missouri senator as America’s next great statesman. Instead, he’s revealed uncomfortable truths about the movement.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Newtown’s Congresswoman Takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene
Representative Jahana Hayes is leading a push to kick Greene off of the House Education Committee. Should Greene be expelled from the House entirely?
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Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc / Getty Betraying Your Church—And Your Party
How Representative Adam Kinzinger, an evangelical Republican, decided to vote for impeachment—and start calling out his church
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Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl / Anadolu Agency / ... Why You Can’t Just Get Vaccinated at Your Doctor’s Office
Seniors are on waiting lists for vaccines, even as states are supposedly failing to use up all of their allotted doses. Why can’t vaccination happen faster?
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Sarah Silbiger / AFP / GETTY / THE ... The Far Right’s Fear of ‘Glowies’
In the aftermath of the January 6 riot, extremists have become obsessed with the federal agents who might lurk among them.
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Win McNamee / Getty How Biden Plans to Beat Republican Obstructionism
History suggests that Joe Biden and the Democrats are going to have a tough two years and a disaster in the midterms. Here’s their plan to avoid that.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Biden Generation’s Last Chance
The country’s future now rests in the hands of a generation that won’t be around to see the outcomes of its decisions.
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Anna Moneymaker / New York Times / Redux What I Saw at the White House on Trump’s Last Day
The handover of power was a solemn affair. There was no mistaking the new administration for the old one.
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Andrew Harnik / AFP / Getty Photos: The Inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Scenes from a unique moment in American history
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Tavon Taylor Among the Guardsmen
Blocks from the Capitol, residents and business owners must pass through military checkpoints to go about their day.
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Samuel Corum / Getty An Inauguration Like No Other
Rehearsals and preparations are underway for the upcoming inaugural ceremony of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President–elect Kamala Harris.
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Mark Makela / Getty The Secret Service Is Bracing for Dangerous Times
Any chance of a normal security environment for the president-elect evaporated during the Capitol siege.
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