Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Courtesy of Rosanne Cash I Will Miss What I Wanted to Lose
I didn’t fully appreciate what life on the road gave me until suddenly it was gone.
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Ian Berry / Magnum Estonia Already Lives Online—Why Can’t the United States?
Using secure identification, people there can bank, apply for government assistance, file for sick leave, order prescriptions, and get medical care—all online.
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John Lamparski / Getty Beach Towns Are Next to Take the Hit
The sand may be safe, but what if Americans are too timid to return to shore towns and spend money?
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OLI SCARFF / AFP via Getty What Boris Johnson Should Have Known
A touch of Churchillian circumspection—rather than just bulldog bravado—might have saved the prime minister’s moral and political authority.
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The Atlantic The Price of Trump Loyalty
Senator Cory Gardner’s political relationship with the president reads like a tawdry romance novel.
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Rob Kim / Getty / The Atlantic Jonathan Haidt Is Trying to Heal America’s Divisions
The psychologist shares his thoughts on the pandemic, polarization, and politics.
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Adam Maida We Don’t Even Have a COVID-19 Vaccine, and Yet the Conspiracies Are Here
Even as vaccines for the disease are being held up as the last hope for a return to normalcy, misinformation about them is spreading.
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Netflix / Amazon / Hulu / FX / … 25 Half-Hour Shows to Watch Now
If your attention span is frazzled, explore the compact joys of the 30-minute format.
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FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images For Schools, the List of Obstacles Grows and Grows
The pandemic creates countless new challenges—but also the chance to educate some students better than ever before.
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Alan Varajas / EyeEm / Getty / The … The Advice That Most 2020 Commencement Speakers Won’t Give
Here’s the speech that graduates need to hear.
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Peter Van Agtmael / Magnum Grappling With a Terrible Milestone: One Hundred Thousand Dead
To mourn in a moment of collective trauma is to experience not one but multiple layers of loss.
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María Medem The Pandemic Forced Me Into a Multigenerational Home
But the arrangement does work.
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Evan Vucci / AP Did Trump Really Take Hydroxychloroquine?
The evidence that the president was lying was strong. His lips were moving, for one thing. But perhaps this time he was telling the truth.
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Paul Yeung / Bloomberg / Getty The End of Hong Kong
China has moved to take away the city’s autonomy, one of several aggressive actions by Beijing across the region.
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Namrata Gosavi Is Everyone Depressed?
Suddenly, many people meet the criteria for clinical depression. Doctors are scrambling to determine who needs urgent intervention, and who is simply the new normal.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Misfortune of Graduating in 2020
The current economic conditions could take this year’s grads 10 years or more to recover from.
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Bryan Anselm / Redux America Sabotaged the Solution to Its New Higher-Education Crisis
Many families are turning to community colleges amid the pandemic, but the schools aren’t equipped to handle an influx of students.
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Gerry Broome / AP / The Atlantic How the Pandemic Silenced the Nation’s Biggest Governor’s Race
Will North Carolina, a major presidential swing state, return to the national spotlight?
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Stephane de Sakutin / Getty We’ll Be Wearing Things on Our Faces for a Long Time
You can choose between a mask and a face shield, but you can’t choose nothing.
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Sandy Nicholson / Redux Summer Is Approaching. Bring Camp Back.
The risks are manageable, and parents and children alike would benefit from cautiously reopening outdoor programs.
