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The Atlantic Daily: The Booster-Shot Rollout Is a Mess
Plus: why David Lynch’s 1984 film, Dune, is worth a rewatch
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Immunity Is Redefining COVID-19
Breakthrough infections appear to be shorter and less severe. Soon, we’ll need to adjust our perception of COVID-19, the illness.
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The Atlantic Daily: What Are the Legal Rights of Deceased Black Americans?
This fall, the Massachusetts Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case against Harvard over its ownership of two 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved people.
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The Atlantic Daily: A New Phase of Pandemic Uncertainty
First: Pandemic data are always confusing. The Delta variant and vaccines are only making things more complicated. Then: So, how about those Met Gala outfits?
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The Atlantic Daily: How to Make Sense of COVID Data in the Delta Era
Pandemic data are always confusing. The Delta variant and vaccines are only making things more complicated.
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The Atlantic Daily: 20 Years of Grief
For those who lost loved ones on 9/11, grief is anything but linear.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: The Roe v. Wade Baby Tells Her Story
Now a 51-year-old mother of three, Shelley Lynn Thornton is speaking out for the first time.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: The Fight Over Pandemic Mandates Is Different Now
With a quarter of American adults still yet to get a shot, legal and cultural tussles over vaccine and mask requirements are doomed to go on for a while.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Kids Are In For Another Messy School Year
Another strange school year begins. Then: One of the buzziest book releases of the year is here.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Is Waning Immunity Actually a Crisis?
The White House might’ve gotten a bit ahead of itself on booster shots. Then: This Labor Day weekend, we debate 2021’s song of the summer.
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The Atlantic Daily: How Texas Citizens Won the Right to Be Anti-Abortion Vigilantes
The new Texas abortion law thrives on technicalities.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: COVID-19 Long-Haulers Want More
Long COVID remains one of the biggest unanswered questions of this pandemic.
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The Atlantic Daily: The West’s Impossibly Extreme Weather
The region is beset by catastrophe after catastrophe.
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The Atlantic Daily: Our Relationship to the Coronavirus Will Have to Change
The virus isn’t going away—not now, maybe not ever. Plus: a new summer album to stream.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Afghanistan Evacuations Are a Race Against the Clock
The Taliban is tightening its grip, as the deadline for American withdrawal creeps closer.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: MAGA Cowed Trump on Afghanistan
Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on Afghanistan is a reminder that the core values of Trumpism are whatever Trump needs them to be.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: 3 Signs the Vaccines Are Doing Their Job
As the U.S. government goes all in on booster shots, here are three ways to think about whether the COVID-19 vaccines are working.
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Saul Martinez / Bloomberg / Getty The Atlantic Daily: Why Wait for a Booster Shot?
Booster shots for Americans are likely on the way. With extremely low vaccination rates worldwide, is it too soon to get one?
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: This Is Heat Season, Not Summer
America is burning up and burning down. This week’s extreme heat is a reminder that climate change is here.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: The Pandemic’s Endgame Has Changed
When will the pandemic be over? Our staff writer Ed Yong offers some insight.
