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The Seinfeld Theory of Fiction

March 19, 2026

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Jay Bhattacharya Might Get His COVID Capstone

Katherine J. Wu

March 5, 2026

Jay Bhattacharya

‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’

February 24, 2026

Del Bigtree speaks at a demonstration against mandatory vaccinations and protesting SB 5841, in Olympia, Washington, U.S. February 20, 2019.

Scientists Figured Out the Problem With Johnson & Johnson’s COVID Vaccine

February 11, 2026

A person being vaccinated

Jerome Powell’s Thankless Rescue of Trump

Roger Lowenstein

January 16, 2026

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The Best Flu Drug Americans Aren’t Taking

January 12, 2026

Xofluza pill surrounded by other pills

The Flu Really Is That Bad

Katherine J. Wu

January 10, 2026

a child ails in bed

Yes, Some Children May Have Died From COVID Shots

December 8, 2025

Photo of someone holding a small child who has just received an injection

RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading

Katherine J. Wu

November 19, 2025

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The Appeal of the Campus Right

Julia Steinberg

October 23, 2025

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Bring Back High-Stakes School Testing

October 8, 2025

Pediatricians Can’t Bear These Costs

Katherine J. Wu

October 3, 2025

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RFK Jr.’s Obsession With the Past

September 26, 2025

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Patricia Lockwood’s Mind-Opening Experience of Long COVID

September 25, 2025

Photograph of author Patricia Lockwood

Kennedy’s Handpicked Vaccine Committee Is a Mess

Tom Bartlett and Katherine J. Wu

September 18, 2025

RFK Jr. expounds into a microphone while seated, against a backdrop of wood paneling and golden curtains

Moms Are Losing Options to Protect Newborns From COVID

September 16, 2025

Photo collage of a pregnant belly, three syringes, and a vial of clear liquid.

COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far

August 21, 2025

An animated gif of three red outlines of virus particles gyrating in front of a black background

Why RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign Is Working

Katherine J. Wu

August 13, 2025

Black-and-white photo taken in a seated crowd at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing, where a woman wears a "Make America Healthy Again" T-shirt.

A Nasty, Cynical, and Eerily Accurate Look at All-Too-Recent History

July 18, 2025

How Public Health Discredited Itself

July 7, 2025

A tangled stethoscope

America’s Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a Cliff

Keith Humphreys

June 25, 2025

a color photographs of a man wearing a prison jumpsuit sitting alone in a lunch room

How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin

June 17, 2025

An American flag made up of ivermectin pills

The Most Extreme Voice on RFK Jr.’s New Vaccine Committee

June 13, 2025

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COVID Shots for Kids Are Over

Katherine J. Wu

May 21, 2025

A child in a mask getting a shot

Trump Thinks He Knows What Started the Pandemic

May 20, 2025

A collage of director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's face, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, President Donald Trump's face, and renderings of Covid-19's spike protein.

The Power of a Good Suit

June 2025 Issue

An overhead photograph of the The Atlantic magazine opened to a spread of the March 2025 article by David Frum.

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

Katherine J. Wu

May 6, 2025

The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen

April 17, 2025

Two pencils, one broken, form an X

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

Katherine J. Wu

April 11, 2025

A person with AIDS and his friend

What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different

April 7, 2025

A blurred face with a matrix of red dots across it

COVID-19: Five Years Later

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

April 1, 2025

A woman sits in a haze.

COVID-19: Five Years Later

The Evermaskers

April 1, 2025

A mask floating in front of a woman's gauzy face

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

Katherine J. Wu

March 21, 2025

Collage of Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shaking hands, a bar graph showing an upward trend in red bars and red dots

COVID-19: Five Years Later

The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About

March 18, 2025

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The Literature of the Pandemic

March 14, 2025

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DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk

March 12, 2025

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