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Thomas Rabsch / laif / Redux The Day the Live Concert Returns
I don’t know when it will be safe to sing arm in arm at the top of our lungs. But we will do it again, because we have to.
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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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Celina Pereira Air Travel Is Going to Be Very Bad, for a Very Long Time
Flying used to be unpleasant. But scarcity, low demand, and public-health risks could make it unbearable.
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Timo Lenzen Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election
RIP democracy
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Matt Rourke / AP Quarantine Fatigue Is Real
Instead of an all-or-nothing approach to risk prevention, Americans need a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic.
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Jan Buchczik Why So Many People Are Unhappy in Retirement
Too often, we imagine life to be like the hero’s journey, and leave out its crucial last step: letting go.
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Doug Mills / Getty Why No One Is Calling on Trump to Resign
Trump’s shamelessness, his unwillingness to express contrition, seems to have become a kind of shield.
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Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be.
The surreal experience of flying during a pandemic, and the false promise of a return to normal
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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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Michael Nagle / Redux A Guide to Staying Safe as States Reopen
Can I eat at a restaurant? Can I go shopping? Can I hug my friends again? Experts weigh in.
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Joan Wong Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend
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Yi Liu / BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition Winners of the 2020 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
Top photos from this year’s contest, showcasing the Earth’s biodiversity
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The Atlantic If Someone Shares the �Plandemic’ Video, How Should You Respond?
Experts provide scripts to help you push back as effectively as possible.
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Oliver Munday We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
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Max Whittaker/The New York Times/Redux What Tara Reade Deserves
Her suffering is viewed as a tool for other agendas, rather than as a moral emergency in and of itself.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: I Staked My Identity on Attending an Ivy League School
I’m trying to accept that the school I’m going to is where I am meant to be, but I feel like my accomplishments mean nothing now.
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Patrick Semansky / AP What Judge Sullivan Should Do
The Justice Department has requested that he dismiss the case against Michael Flynn. Here are 13 questions the judge should ask of government counsel.
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Win McNamee / Getty The President Is Unraveling
The country is witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of Donald Trump.
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Spencer Platt/Getty The Real Reason to Wear a Mask
Much of the confusion around masks stems from the conflation of two very different uses.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic The System That Actually Worked
How the internet kept running even as society closed down around it
