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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Michael M. Santiago / Getty What the Ohio Special Election Actually Means
The Democratic primary became a proxy war between progressives and the establishment. But the outcome doesn’t tell us much about the party’s future.
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Jeff Kowalsky / AFP / Getty; The Atlantic The Gymnast Who Won’t Let Her Daughters Do Gymnastics
Gymnast Rachael Denhollander is one of many people who can no longer watch the Olympics with casual enjoyment.
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Rachel Hulin; The Atlantic How to Avoid the Worst Parenting Mistake
Emily Oster caters to a data-obsessed crowd of modern parents. But sometimes you just can’t optimize your kid.
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David Swanson / Reuters Photos of California’s Dixie Fire
Scenes from the Golden State’s largest wildfire of 2021 so far
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Science Photo Library / Al Drago / Getty … The Unraveling of the Trump Era
The Trump administration desperately wanted to cut government benefits, and it had outside help to do so. But very few of its new rules held up.
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The Atlantic Companies Want Remote Workers in All States but 1
Businesses such as Nike and Oracle are happy to let you work from home—just not in Colorado.
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Getty; The Atlantic Vaccinated America Has Had Enough
In the United States, this pandemic could be almost over by now. The reasons it’s still going are pretty clear.
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NASA Apollo’s First Lunar Rover, Driven 50 Years Ago
Images of the development, training, and deployment of the first vehicle driven by humans on the surface of another world
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Hannah Price His Name Was Emmett Till
In 1955, just past daybreak, a Chevrolet truck pulled up to an unmarked building. A 14-year-old child was in the back.
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Kendrick Brinson / The New York Times / … Two Ways to Think About the New Mask Debate
Depending on where you live and your risk tolerance, vaccinated people are justified in either masking or unmasking indoors.
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Noah Berger / AP Scenes From California’s Sugar Fire
Images from one of the largest blazes so far in California’s 2021 fire season
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Adam Maida ; The Atlantic The Rise of Anti-history
The Trumpist wing of the GOP uses history as a bludgeon, without regard to context, logic, or proportionality.
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Illustration by Valerie Chiang; Andrew Harnik-Pool / Getty; … How Democrats Lost the Courts
Justice Stephen Breyer hasn’t retired yet. But filling Supreme Court seats is just one battle in a war over the judiciary—one that progressives worry they’re losing.
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Courtesy of Esau McCaulley / The Atlantic The Vortex of White Evangelicalism
“Every single Christian of color who is proximate to evangelical spaces gets called everything but a child of God. And that’s just part of the work.”
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photoart23D / Getty; Steve Cicero / Getty; Katie … The Perverse Consequences of the NCAA Ruling
The high court’s decision was overdue. It will also usher in a new world.
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Alamy / Los Angeles Examiner / Corbis / … The Other July 4
On July 4, 1776, the United States committed itself to a set of principles. It did not always live up to those words. But the words exerted their own power.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty Trump Is Preparing for the Worst
Watch for early indications that the legal process may end badly for the former president.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Photos: Rescue Efforts Continue at Collapsed Florida Building
Recovery work at the site of the collapse is still underway despite hazardous conditions and harsh weather.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Real Threat to American Catholicism
The American Catholic bishops’ fight with President Joe Biden reveals much about the state of the Church.
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The Atlantic We’re Not Ready for Another Pandemic
The next big plague is coming, and despite making progress on pandemic preparedness, the U.S. might still suffer mass casualties. Here’s why.
