Epidemics and Pandemics

January 25, 2022

Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: This Might Not Be the Last Surge

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 24, 2022

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Health

A Very Simple Way to Get America Boosted

Tim Requarth

January 24, 2022

Flyers advertising $100 in exchange for getting a COVID vaccine

Politics

When Your Doctor Is on TikTok

Christian Paz

January 23, 2022

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Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: Six Poems to Bring You Comfort This Winter

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 22, 2022

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Family

Students Are Walking Out Over COVID

Joe Pinsker

January 21, 2022

A young man wearing a rainbow mask holds up a sign that says "We want safer schools." In the crowd behind him, other signs read: "CPS Listen to Us" and "Student Voices Matter"

Health

Will Omicron Leave Most of Us Immune?

Katherine J. Wu

January 21, 2022

Health

COVID Parenting Has Passed the Point of Absurdity

Melinda Wenner Moyer

January 20, 2022

Health

It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People

Ed Yong

January 20, 2022

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Health

What America Lost by Delaying the Vaccine Rollout

Brendan Borrell

January 19, 2022

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Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: The Workers Who Bear the Brunt of the Omicron Surge

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 18, 2022

Family

People Are Hiding That Their Unvaccinated Loved Ones Died of COVID

Andrea Stanley

January 18, 2022

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Global

The Silent, Vaccinated, Impatient Majority

Yasmeen Serhan

January 17, 2022

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Ideas

The COVID-Risk Social Contract Is Under Negotiation

Jonathan Wolff

January 17, 2022

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Ideas

Congress Should Step Up on Pandemic Policy

Conor Friedersdorf

January 16, 2022

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Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: Eight Books to Read This Winter

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 14, 2022

Health

Omicron Is Making America’s Bad Jobs Even Worse

Amanda Mull

January 14, 2022

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Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Businesses Is Dead. What Now?

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 13, 2022

Politics

The Real Reason Americans Aren’t Isolating

Olga Khazan

January 13, 2022

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Health

COVID-Hospitalization Numbers Are as Bad as They Look

Ed Yong

January 12, 2022

A medical worker in full PPE attends to a COVID-19 patient.

Work In Progress

A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

Derek Thompson

January 12, 2022

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Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: You Should Still Try to Avoid COVID Right Now

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 11, 2022

Ideas

Two Years Is Long Enough

Helen Lewis

January 11, 2022

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Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: America’s Approach to School Closures Is Unusual

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 10, 2022

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Health

Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID

Sarah Zhang

January 10, 2022

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Work In Progress

Why More Americans Are Saying They’re ‘Vaxxed and Done’

Derek Thompson

January 10, 2022

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Politics

One-Way Masking Works

Olga Khazan

January 10, 2022

Health

COVID Isolation Is a Lot Like … Muffin Baking

Katherine J. Wu

January 8, 2022

Up for Debate

Your Starkly Different Perspectives on Omicron

Conor Friedersdorf

January 7, 2022

Ideas

The Alternative to Closing Schools

Stephanie H. Murray

January 7, 2022

Health

America’s COVID Rules Are a Dumpster Fire

Katherine J. Wu

January 6, 2022

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Newsletters

The U.S. Digital-Contact-Tracing Debacle

Charlie Warzel

January 6, 2022

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Newsletters

The Atlantic Daily: Omicron Is Scrambling Our COVID Best Practices

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 5, 2022

Science

Should I Just Get Omicron Over With?

Katherine J. Wu

January 5, 2022

Up for Debate

Omicron and the Return to Normalcy

Conor Friedersdorf

January 5, 2022

Ideas

Universities Need to Catch Up to the Post-vaccine Reality

Emily Oster

January 5, 2022

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Sections

The Print Edition

How Sesame Street Is Handling the Pandemic

The Atlantic Daily: This Might Not Be the Last Surge

A Very Simple Way to Get America Boosted

When Your Doctor Is on TikTok

The Atlantic Daily: Six Poems to Bring You Comfort This Winter

Students Are Walking Out Over COVID

Will Omicron Leave Most of Us Immune?

COVID Parenting Has Passed the Point of Absurdity

It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People

What America Lost by Delaying the Vaccine Rollout

The Atlantic Daily: The Workers Who Bear the Brunt of the Omicron Surge

People Are Hiding That Their Unvaccinated Loved Ones Died of COVID

The Silent, Vaccinated, Impatient Majority

The COVID-Risk Social Contract Is Under Negotiation

Congress Should Step Up on Pandemic Policy

The Atlantic Daily: Eight Books to Read This Winter

Omicron Is Making America’s Bad Jobs Even Worse

The Atlantic Daily: Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Businesses Is Dead. What Now?

The Real Reason Americans Aren’t Isolating

COVID-Hospitalization Numbers Are as Bad as They Look

A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

The Atlantic Daily: You Should Still Try to Avoid COVID Right Now

Two Years Is Long Enough

The Atlantic Daily: America’s Approach to School Closures Is Unusual

Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID

Why More Americans Are Saying They’re ‘Vaxxed and Done’

One-Way Masking Works

COVID Isolation Is a Lot Like … Muffin Baking

Your Starkly Different Perspectives on Omicron

The Alternative to Closing Schools

America’s COVID Rules Are a Dumpster Fire

The U.S. Digital-Contact-Tracing Debacle

The Atlantic Daily: Omicron Is Scrambling Our COVID Best Practices

Should I Just Get Omicron Over With?

Omicron and the Return to Normalcy

Universities Need to Catch Up to the Post-vaccine Reality