The Great Resignation Is Accelerating

America Is Choking Under an ‘Everything Shortage’

How America’s Vaccination Campaign Fell Behind the World’s

What Are Offices Good For, Anyway?

Social Media Is Attention Alcohol

Why Are So Many Young Men Giving Up on College?

Why Is America So Bad at Keeping People Alive?

The Masks Were Working All Along

How COVID-19 Could Lead to a Golden Age of Innovation

Why Workers Are Telling Their Boss to Shove It

BlackRock Is Not Ruining the U.S. Housing Market

Winners and Losers of the Work-From-Home Revolution

Why the New York Pizza Fold Works

Will the Housing Market Ever Be Normal Again?

The Texas Mask Mystery

The CDC’s Free-Your-Face Guidance Is Wonderful, Welcome, and Weird

What’s Behind the Vaccine Slowdown?

Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking?

What ‘Taking the Pandemic Seriously’ Means Now

Are Outdoor Mask Mandates Still Necessary?

The End of Hygiene Theater

Georgia’s Voting-Rights Fiasco

The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man

How mRNA Technology Could Change the World

Is America’s Great Crime Decline Over?

The Curious Case of Florida’s Pandemic Response

The Original Sin of America’s COVID-19 Response

‘This Is Unprecedented’: Why America’s Housing Market Has Never Been Weirder

Vaccine Hesitancy Isn’t Just One Thing

Why COVID-19 Cases Are Falling So Fast

How to Beat the Pandemic by Summer

Hygiene Theater Is Still a Huge Waste of Time

The GameStop Story You Think You Know Is Wrong

The Remote Work Revolution Will Be Bigger Than We Think

Why Is Everybody Obsessed With GameStop?

Just Open the Schools Already

Biden Can Go Big. Here’s How.

How Big Tech Impeached Donald Trump

What Was Trumpism?

How 2020 Shattered Shared Reality

America’s Bipartisan COVID-19 Illiteracy

The United States has been overwhelmed by vectors of misinformation throughout the pandemic. But it’s not just Donald Trump, many Republican state...

The 2021 Post-pandemic Prediction-palooza

The post-pandemic world approaches. According to some projections, up to half of all Americans could be vaccinated by June, and another 30 percent may...

The Dark, Confusing December Ahead

Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. Here is what we know...

Why Big-City Dominance Is a Problem for Democrats

Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election by rebuilding the “blue wall,” not around any particular geographical region, but around...

Density Is Destiny

Two themes seem to define the 2020 election results we’ve seen so far—and also build on a decade or more of political developments: the...

The 2020 Election Night Cheat Sheet

The election will be weird, no matter what. If the polls are right, and Joe Biden wins the states where he’s favored, tonight could bring the most...

Joe Biden Has a 90 Percent Chance of Winning. What Does That Mean?

Approximately 50 times a day, I visit a handful of presidential election–forecasting websites to remind myself of Joe Biden’s chances of becoming...

The Top 5 Reasons to Believe 2020 Won’t Be a 2016 Sequel

“I want to feel hopeful about Joe Biden’s chances this year, but I just can’t,” my neighbor confessed to me, as we stood in line outside a...

How to Keep a Fall Surge From Becoming a Winter Catastrophe

COVID-19 cases are rising in New York City, and the mayor is threatening business and school closures. Across other parts of the United States and...

Three Interpretations of Trump’s Tax Records

The New York Times exposé of President Donald Trump’s taxes is chock-full of tantalizing revelations. According to the report, the president...