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Epidemics and Pandemics

What Do You Tell Someone Who Still Won’t Stay Home?

March 19, 2020

Where Are the Billionaires?

March 19, 2020

The Utter Weirdness of Small Talk in a Pandemic

March 19, 2020

What You’re Feeling Is Plague Dread

March 19, 2020

stressed out hands

COVID-19 Is Upending Parents’ Birth Plans

March 19, 2020

The silhouette of a fetus overlays an image of a virus

The Modern Supply Chain Is Snapping

March 19, 2020

Face-mask manufacturing in Istanbul, Turkey

As Usual, Americans Must Go It Alone

March 19, 2020

A staffer for Representative Katie Porter holds a board outlining the cost of coronavirus testing.

How a Fragmented Country Fights a Pandemic

March 19, 2020

The Red Cross Motor Corps in St Louis, Missouri, October 1918.

China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World

March 19, 2020

Xi Jinping at the School of Medicine at Tsinghua University in Beijing

What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful

Garrett M. Graff

March 19, 2020

At Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, a man closes his shop as the Bay Area prepares for a lockdown effort to slow the spread of coronavirus.

How to Solve the Fixed-Costs Crisis

March 19, 2020

Four Theories for Why People Are Still Out Partying

March 19, 2020

People enjoying spring break in Florida despite the pandemic

The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism

March 19, 2020

The Pandemic Could Change How Americans View Government

Abdallah Fayyad

March 19, 2020

The Atlantic Politics Daily: Where Are the Billionaires?

Saahil Desai, Christian Paz, and Shan Wang

March 19, 2020

Social Distance

Listen: ‘Dear Therapist’ on Staying Sane

March 18, 2020

A Quick Guide to Streaming Movies While in Quarantine

March 18, 2020

2020 Time Capsule #5: The ‘Chinese Virus’

March 18, 2020

The Healthiest Way to Sweat Out a Pandemic

March 18, 2020

Should You Take Advil for COVID-19?

March 18, 2020

Pills in the shape of a face covered by a mask

This Is How Donald Trump Will Be Remembered

March 18, 2020

President Trump

The ‘Chinese Virus’ Is a Test. Don’t Fail It.

March 18, 2020

The Best Kind of Food to Cook During a Pandemic

March 18, 2020

Rural America Isn’t Ready for a Pandemic

Michael R. Brumage

March 18, 2020

We Were Warned

March 18, 2020

A Glimpse of the Coronavirus’s Possible Legacy

Timothy McLaughlin

March 18, 2020

The burial of Dr Joanna Tse Yuen-Man, who died of SARS, at Gallant Garden, Wo Hop Shek. A relative is holding her portrait.

The Atlantic Daily: The Restaurants Are Only the Beginning

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

March 17, 2020

Live: Answers to Your Coronavirus Questions

March 17, 2020

2020 Time Capsule #4: Trump Is Lying, Blatantly

March 17, 2020

The Coming Bailout Is a Moral Failure

March 17, 2020

U.S. Capitol dome

Dear Therapist’s Guide to Staying Sane During a Pandemic

March 17, 2020

A graphic showing a woman surrounded by germs. A squiggle is drawn over the top of her head.

The People Ignoring Social Distancing

March 17, 2020

An image of a martini glass with viruses in place of olives

Trump Defended Cuts to Public-Health Agencies, on Video

Conor Friedersdorf

March 17, 2020

President Trump

A Primary? In a Pandemic?

March 17, 2020

An election official sits in a chair while waiting for voters to arrive at a polling station in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Voters in Florida, Illinois and Arizona were trickling into the polls Tuesday as the coronavirus pandemic continued to wreak havoc on the Democratic presidential primary calendar with Ohio postponing its contest, citing a public health emergency.

The Next, Terrible Phase of This Crisis

March 17, 2020

Picture of a hospital with triage colorblocks

Trump Leaves States to Fend for Themselves

Juliette Kayyem

March 17, 2020

An illustration of a map of the U.S.