Ideas
Arguments. Essays. Inquiries.
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LOGAN CYRUS / AFP / Getty Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously
This is not a straightforward battle between a pro-human and a pro-economy camp.
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Sebastian Scheiner / AP The Coronavirus Generation Will Use Language Differently
Being out of school for half a year could change children’s relationship with formal expression.
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Adeshola Makinde Punching Steph Curry
The rules of the game drive the nature of competition.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump Has a New Word Lump
The president is topping even the greatest geniuses in the world, if he does say so himself.
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Getty / The Atlantic The World Doesn’t Yet Know Enough to Beat the Coronavirus
The urge to reopen society far outpaces scientific discovery. Ten scientists offer a plan to close the gap.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters It’s the Pandemic, Stupid
The shutdowns aren’t what’s driving the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.
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JONATHAN ERNST / Reuters An Attack on a Fundamental Principle of Justice
Prosecutorial discretion is necessary for law enforcement to work. But dropping the case against Michael Flynn is an abuse of this power, one that egregiously undermines the rule of law.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Secrets Flynn Was Desperate to Conceal
The former national security adviser’s lies protected himself. But they also protected Trump.
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Leah Millis The Supreme Court Says Sorry, It Just Can’t Help With Political Corruption
In overturning the criminal convictions that resulted from the Bridgegate scandal, the Court is embracing a view of the world that is unbearably bleak.
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Illustration: Najeebah Al-Ghadban; Celestina Vaterra / Süddeutsche Zeitung ... Why Some of Us Thrive in a Crisis
For the lonely and misanthropic, these times bring surprising solidarity.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The First Nomination as Tragedy, the Second as Farce
John Ratcliffe’s nomination exposes a Senate majority that has ceded its powers to Trump.
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Michael Loccisano / Getty The Dumbing Down of the American Restaurant
Tom Colicchio, the celebrity chef, thinks 50 percent of restaurants may not survive the pandemic, and that they’re going to have to change.
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Oklahoma Department of Transportation / The Atlantic Oklahoma’s Suspect Argument in Front of the Supreme Court
The state claims that affirming a reservation in eastern Oklahoma could lead to thousands of state criminal convictions being thrown out. But that argument doesn’t seem to be based on facts.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Michael Flynn Is Walking Free
The former national security adviser figured out that loyalty to Trump is now a better bet than loyalty to the rule of law.
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MPI / Getty Pandemics Leave Us Forever Altered
What history can tell us about the long-term effects of the coronavirus
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Nina Berman / Noor / Redux The Next Great Generation
The class of 2020 will be remembered for all that it sacrificed.
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Courtesy of Kathleen Moore / The Atlantic My Husband Would Not Survive a Triage Decision
I teach philosophy, and I would have argued against his care in theory.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Trump Turned the Death Count Into a Story About Himself
Official figures exclude thousands who have died during the pandemic. To draw the right lessons, the U.S. needs an accurate tally of the victims.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Congress Can Help the States
The key is to establish three separate categories of problems to be addressed by three distinct forms of aid.
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