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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Alyssa Pointer / Reuters The Fight for Roe
Images from some of the protests sparked by the release of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion
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Digital alteration by Ken Gonzales-Day for The Atlantic. … Now We Know Their Names
In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.
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Andrew Quilty / Agence VU’ The Betrayal
America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added moral injury to military failure. But a group of soldiers, veterans, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Tracking Cougars to Figure Out Where to Build a Bridge
Stephanie Keith, a photographer with Reuters, recently joined members of the Olympic Cougar Project as they tracked a wild cougar named Lilu.
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Matt Black / Magnum The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains
Acute scarcity drives the search for water underground. But the West’s major aquifers are in trouble, too.
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Charlie Riedel / AP Biden Won Big With a Bad Hand
Relative to its strength in Congress, the Biden administration has proved outstandingly successful.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty How Do Democrats Recover From This?
Here are five ways in which they could salvage their election chances.
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Adriana Zehbrauskas for The Atlantic Trump’s Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel
Worth at least a quarter billion dollars, the steel bollards are a relic of the Trump era.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty What Joe Manchin’s ‘No’ Means for Biden’s Agenda
Build Back Better looks dead. Can Democrats rebuild it?
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Scott Olson / Getty The Aftermath of the Devastating Tornado Outbreak in Kentucky
Late on December 11, a tornado outbreak struck several states in the Midwest, hitting parts of western Kentucky especially hard.
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Danielle Del Plato Are We Doomed?
To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty If Democrats Can Lose in Virginia, They Can Lose Almost Anywhere
Led by a candidate who neither repudiated nor embraced Trump, the GOP sweeps to victory.
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Courtesy of Arabella Advisors; The Atlantic The Massive Progressive Dark-Money Group You’ve Never Heard Of
Over the past half decade, Democrats have quietly pulled ahead of Republicans in untraceable political spending. One group helped make it happen.
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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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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty; The … The New Question Haunting Adoption
At a glance, America’s shortage of adoptable babies may seem like a problem. But is adoption meant to provide babies for families, or families for babies?
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Sgt. Kaden D. Pitt / U.S. Army / … The Hypocrisy of the Anti-vax Patriot
Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is a great way to help U.S. military families.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Abortion Backup Plan No One Is Talking About
Even in states with the strictest abortion laws, pregnant people have a safe, inexpensive option to terminate their pregnancies. But few know about it.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty; The Atlantic The House of Representatives Is Failing American Democracy
By fleeing to the political extremes, a co-equal House of Congress is abdicating its lawmaking power.
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The Atlantic What Slack Does for Women
For years, women have had to control their voice, posture, and demeanor in the workplace. With Slack, we don’t have to worry about any of that.
