What a Doctor Learns From Watching You on Video Chat
Patients and doctors are rediscovering the unexpected virtues and hidden pitfalls of homebound care.
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Celina Pereira Revenge of the Suburbs
Suburbia was never as bad as anyone said it was. Now it’s looking even better.
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The Atlantic Reddit Is Finally Facing Its Legacy of Racism
Social-media platforms can’t evade the scrutiny that so many other institutions in America are currently under.
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Pablo Delcan What Big Tech Wants Out of the Pandemic
The firms are all too eager to help the government manage the coronavirus crisis.
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The Atlantic The Silence of the Never Facebookers
Even fed-up tech workers are paralyzed by Silicon Valley’s culture.
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Frankie Schembri It Was Supposed to Detect Fraud. It Wrongfully Accused Thousands Instead.
How Michigan’s attempt to automate its unemployment system went horribly wrong
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why K-pop Fans Are No Longer Posting About K-pop
Twitter fan accounts are organizing to support the protests, often before the celebrities they love say a word.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Facebook Groups Where People Pretend the Pandemic Isn’t Happening
Online role-playing has taken a turn for the downright mundane.
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Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Trump Is Doing All of This for Zuckerberg
The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic This Social-Media Mob Was Good
The online rage at Amy Cooper could prove to be a powerful deterrent.
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The Atlantic Pandemic Organizers Are Co-opting Productivity Software
Mutual-aid groups are distributing groceries and spare air conditioners via tools designed to turn labor into money as efficiently as possible.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Secret Lives of Perfect Social Distancers
Someone who looks like they’re always staying inside on Instagram may actually have a double life they’re hiding to avoid judgment.
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Something in the Air
The coronavirus pandemic is sparking baseless theories about the dangers of 5G. But the fear that wireless technology is slowly killing us isn’t new—and it doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.
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Dale De La Rey / Getty How Hong Kong Did It
With the government flailing, the city’s citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response.
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Simoul Alva It’s Cool to Look Terrifying on Pandemic Instagram
Life is just four walls for many of us right now, but bizarre augmented-reality filters give us the illusion that it’s not.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic How ‘Karen’ Became a Coronavirus Villain
A popular joke about entitled white women is now a big pandemic meme.
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Guillem Casasús Xercavins / Quanta The Easy Questions That Stump Computers
What happens when you stack logs in a fireplace and drop a match? Some of the smartest machines have no idea.
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Alex Stikeleather / The Atlantic Women Are Buying ‘Essential AF’ Shirts, Candles, and Wine Glasses
The strangest pandemic souvenir is Etsy merch with sassy slogans about essential workers.
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Koya79/ Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Is the FaceTime Haircut Here to Stay?
Out-of-work hairstylists, acupuncturists, and even plumbers are seeing clients online. The transition hasn’t always been easy.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Pandemic Advertising Got Weird Fast
Welcome to disastertising.
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Courtesy of Priscilla Maas and Taylor Clayton / ... Prom at Home Is Sad, but Sweet
The pandemic has canceled proms nationwide, but teens are still re-creating the joy of them on TikTok.
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