2021: THE ATLANTIC (350)

JANUARY

Is America Still the ‘Shining City on a Hill’?

Growing Old, Alone

Trump Crosses a Bright-Red Line

Worse Than Treason

Trump and His Heirs Dream of Endless Victory

Remove Trump Tonight

The Capitol Riot Was an Attack on Multiracial Democracy

The Whole Story in a Single Photo

Trump’s Removal Is Taking Too Long

Worst Revolution Ever

Everything Is Different Now

How MAGA Extremism Ends

Most House Republicans Did What the Rioters Wanted

MAGA-land’s Favorite Newspaper

Mike Pence Has Nowhere to Go

America’s Second-Worst Scenario

QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within

A Troubling New Pattern Among the Coronavirus Variants

Donald Trump Is Out. Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In?

Biden Should Go Big, Fast, and Simple

Trump’s Parting Gift to Joe Biden

How Biden Plans to Beat Republican Obstructionism

TV Captured Trump by Looking Away

Trump Has Left Congress No Choice

The Pandemic Is Finally Softening. Will That Last?

The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship

The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust

The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship

How the Pandemic Stoked a Backlash to Multilevel Marketing

They Called for Help. They’d Always Regret It. 

FEBRUARY

The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability

The Pandemic Is Heading Toward a Strange In-Between Time

The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record

The 50-Square-Mile Zone Where the Constitution Doesn’t Apply

The Knives Come Out for Josh Hawley

Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World

‘Some Team Has to Want Me’

The Republican Party Is Radicalizing Against Democracy

Impeachment Poses One Question

Corey Lewandowski Allegedly Wanted More Than $1 Million for a Trump Pardon

American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old – And Hanging by a Thread

The Type of Love That Makes People Happiest

It’ll Do: Impeachment did not prevail, but Trump still lost.

The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism

3 Million Vaccine Shots a Day

It’s All Rigged

Ted Cruz Is No Hypocrite. He’s Worse. 

A Quite Possibly Wonderful Summer

Delay a Shot? Skip One? Vaccine-Dosing Messaging Is a Nightmare.

Texas Failed Because It Did Not Plan

The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution

The One Number That Will Signal the Pandemic’s End

Coronavirus Reinfection Will Soon Become Our Reality

You Got the Vaccine! What Can You Do Now?

Murderers Should Be Called Murderers

5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating

MARCH

Democrats’ Only Chance to Stop the GOP Assault on Voting Rights

Massachusetts Actually Might Have a Way to Keep Schools Open

There’s No Real Reason to Eat 3 Meals a Day

Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off

Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID

We Now Can See a Virus Mutate Like Never Before

Becoming a Parent During the Pandemic Was the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done

Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene

Only Your Boss Can Cure Your Burnout

Biden Choose Prosperity Over Vengeance

The Identity Hoaxers

Why This Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Feels Different

3 Ways the Pandemic Has Made the World Better

The Clearest Sign the Pandemic Could Get Worse

The Identity Hoaxers

Why the Pandemic Experts Failed

The Vaccine Swing Voters

The Curious Case of Florida’s Pandemic Response

Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over

Long-Haulers Are Pushing the Limits of COVID-19 Vaccines

The Real Border Crisis

COVID-19 Is Different Now

Long-Haulers Are Pushing the Limits of COVID-19 Vaccines

How mRNA Technology Could Change the World

We Need to Talk About the AstraZeneca Vaccine

The Unending Assaults on Girlhood

APRIL

The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man

A Black Army Rises to Fight the Racist Right

Why People Keep Asking Which Vaccine You Got

The Title IX Loophole That Hurts NCAA Women’s Teams

America Never Wanted the Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses

You Won’t Remember the Pandemic the Way You Think You Will

You Probably Have an Asymptomatic Infection Right Now

I Needed a Job. He Asked If Was Proposing Marriage.

The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base

The Show That Changed Television Forever

Vaccine Refusal Will Come at a Cost – For All of Us

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

Zoom Court Is Changing How Justice Is Served

The mRNA Vaccines Are Looking Better and Better

A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong

America Has Pandemic Senioritis

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

A Kidnapping Gone Very Wrong

Compliance Will Not Save Me

Chauvin’s Conviction Is the Exception That Proves the Rule

There Will Be More Derek Chauvins

American Police Are Inadequately Trained

2 Competing Impulses Will Drive Post-pandemic Social Life

The Dark Side of the Houseplant Boom

Your Moviegoing Experience Is About to Change

Why the World Should Worry About India

India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing

The CDC Is Still Repeating Its Mistakes

Post-Vaccination Inertia Is Real

The Unspoken Wedge Between Parents and Grandparents

MAY

The Coming Conflict Between Introverts and Extroverts

We Still Don’t Know Who the Coronavirus’s Victims Were

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

Black America’s Neglected Origin Stories

The Original Kings of Esports

Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame

‘One Oppressive Economy Begets Another’

I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction

Why Confederate Lies Live On

3 Explanations for the Vaccine Slowdown

I Tell My Patients Not to Mask Their Kids Outside

Is Brett Kavanaugh Out for Revenge?

The CDC’s Big Mask Surprise Came Out of Nowhere

The Next Big Gasoline Shortage Is Coming

What Kamala Harris Has Learned About Being Vice President

The Inside Story of Joe Biden’s Most Fateful Decision

What Bosses Really Think of Remote Workers

What Introverts and Extroverts Can Learn From Each Other

The Texas Mask Mystery

Why Do Police Keep Shooting Into Moving Cars?

COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Are Looking Beyond the Spike Protein

How 24 Hours of Racist Violence Caused Decades of Harm

George Floyd’s Murder Changed Americans’ Views on Policing

If the Lab-Leak Theory Is Right, What Next?

The Friends Mythology Has Come Full Circle

28 Great Reads for Your Every Summer Mood

The Friends Mythology Has Come Full Circle

Athletes Will Never Be Quiet Again

Swimming in the Wild Will Change You

JUNE

America Has a Drinking Problem

Naomi Osaka Is Part of a Larger War Within Sports

Watch What’s Happening in Red States

Baseball Is Broken

The Only Movie Watchlist You’ll Need This Summer

This Isn’t Normal, Either

The Minister of Chaos

How America Fractured Into Four Parts

The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting

The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Going to Bed Early

The War on Bollywood

How America Fractured Into Four Parts

The Minister of Chaos

Inside a Dodge City Slaughterhouse

The Cost of Trump After Trump

The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant

Kill the 5-Day Workweek

What the Push to Celebrate Juneteenth Conceals

The Truth About Black Freedom

Dads Just Want to Help

The Authoritarian Instincts of Police Unions

Cancel Prime

Cancel Amazon Prime

The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better

The UFO Trap

America’s Alcohol Industry Needs a Drink

Inside William Barr’s Breakup With Trump

Why No One Is Sure If Delta Is Deadlier

Nowhere Is Ready for This Heat

The Senator Who Decided to Tell the Truth

JULY

Trump Is Preparing for the Worst

Ohio Is Now Fully Trumpified

America’s Vaccine Future Is Fragmenting

The Happy Patriot, the Unhappy Nationalist

You Really Need to Quit Twitter

The Senate’s Grim Reaper

Trump’s Fantasy Legal World

The Democrats’ New Voting-Rights Obstacle

There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory

The Rise of Anti-history

The Joyride Era of Space Travel Is Here

Tucker Carlson’s Manufactured America

Post-Vaccination Infections Come in 2 Different Flavors

One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds

Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri

One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

Modern Porn Education Is Totally Unprepared for Modern Porn

Vaccination in America Might Have Only One Tragic Path Forward

The California Dream Is Dying

His Name Was Emmett Till

How a Rising Trump Critic Lost Her Nerve

Two Ways to Think About the New Mask Debate

4 Reasons I’m Wearing a Mask Again

America’s Investing Boom Goes Far Beyond Reddit Bros

The Time Tax

The New Moral Code of America’s Elite

The MyPillow Guy Really Could Destroy Democracy

How Did It Come to This?

Who Owns Amanda Knox?

AUGUST

The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable

What I Heard in the White House Basement

Watch the U.K. to Understand Delta

American Shoppers Are a Nightmare

Kamala Harris Knows She’s Trapped

Tucker Carlson’s Self-Loathing International Tourism

Yes, the Pandemic Is Bad Again

American Shoppers Are a Nightmare

What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind

The Next Face of the Democratic Party

Invasion of the Baby-Haters

How the Pandemic Now Ends

Don’t Be a Schmuck. Put on a Mask.

How the Pandemic Now Ends

Biden’s Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy

The Taliban’s Return Is Catastrophic for Women

Why the Afghan Army Folded

Pandemic Life Is More Complicated Than Ever

‘This Is Not Saigon. This Is Worse Than Saigon.’

Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight

What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban

All These Simultaneous Disasters Are Messing With Our Brains

I’ll Tell You the Secret of Cancer

The Coronavirus Could Get Worse

It’s the Pandemic, Stupid

The Unbearable Summer

What the Taliban Are Losing

Americans Are Losing Sight of the Pandemic Endgame

Vaccine Refusers Don’t Get to Dictate Terms Anymore

The Wrong Way to Test Yourself for the Coronavirus

The New Puritans

SEPTEMBER

Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future

Five Justices Did this Because They Could

What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity

The New Puritans

The Masks Were Working All Along

The New Puritans

The Plan to Stop Every Respiratory Virus at Once

26 Brilliant Movies That Critics Were Wrong About

The Roe Baby

‘I Was Responsible for Those People’

What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind

Why Americans Die So Much

Most Hollywood Writers’ Rooms Look Nothing Like America

Tell Children the Truth

Missouri Is the Next Front in the COVID Culture War

The Dark Underside of Representations of Slavery

What Makes a Black Woman Real?

You Might Want to Wait to Get a Booster Shot

What Makes a Black Woman Real?

Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter

‘Post-Vax COVID’ Is a New Disease

Not Getting Vaccinated to Own Your Fellow Libs

American Gentry

The Conservatives Who’d Rather Die Than Not Own the Libs

Democrats’ Free Pass on Immigration Is Over

How America Dropped to No. 36

The Largest Autocracy on Earth

Trump May Not Have to Steal 2024

We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic

The Democrats’ Last Best Shot to Kill the Filibuster

OCTOBER

The Conservatives Dreading – And Preparing For – Civil War

Employers Have Been Offering the Wrong Office Amenities

The Largest Autocracy on Earth

What We Lost When Gannett Came to Town

A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering

The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants

The U.S. Is Politically Bankrupt

America Is Running Out of Everything

A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering

Washington Is Getting China Wrong

Slackers of the World, Unite!

The Cost of William Shatner’s ‘Most Profound Experience’

A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms

The Great Resignation Is Accelerating

The Children of Sperm Donors Want to Change the Rules of Conception

A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms

What I Learned From Colin Powell

The New Question Haunting Adoption

Kyrsten Sinema Isn’t Hitting the Panic Button

The Metaverse Is Bad

Stop Shopping

How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall

The Evangelical Church Is Breaking Apart

‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’

How Facebook Fails 90 Percent of Its Users

Five Lingering Questions About COVID Vaccines for Kids

Is Moderna Really Better Than Pfizer–Or Is It Just a Higher Dose?

The Real Reason Facebook Changed Its Name

The New Puritans

25 of the Best Horror Films You Can Watch, Ranked by Scariness

NOVEMBER

America Has Lost the Plot on COVID

Tucker Carlson’s Sinister New Documentary

If Democrats Can Lose in Virginia, They Can Lose Almost Anywhere

What Democrats Need to Realize Before 2022

The Singularity Is Here

What Collective Narcissism Does to Society

COVID-Vaccine Mandates for Kids Are Coming

How Easily Can Vaccinated People Spread COVID?

The Man Who Made January 6 Possible

The Right’s Total Loss of Proportion

The Dueling Ideas That Will Define the 21st Century

The Year America’s Hair Fell Out

The Day I Got Old

The Bad Guys Are Winning

Kyle Rittenhouse Is No Hero

‘I Think I’m Done’

The Terrifying Future of the American Right

The Rittenhouse Trial Could Never Have Been What Americans Wanted

Of Course Kyle Rittenhouse Was Acquitted

The Complicated Truth About Trump 2024

Why Is France So Afraid of God?

COVID Tests Weren’t Designed for This

The Pandemic Is Ending With a Whimper

How to Be Thankful When You Don’t Feel Thankful

Stop Shopping

We Know Almost Nothing About the Omicron Variant

The Bad Guys Are Winning

We Know Almost Nothing About the Omicron Variant

When Multilevel Marketing Met Gen Z

DECEMBER

What J&J Can Still Teach Us

Republicans Hope Their Assault on Democracy Will Stop a Post-Roe Backlash

The New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness

When You Can’t Change the World, Change Your Feelings

Bob Dole Saw Every Stage of the GOP

Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun

What Happened to American Conservatism?

The Great (Fake) Chiled-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic

The 16 Best TV Shows of 2021

The Great (Fake) Chiled-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic

We Know a Lot More About Omicron Now

The Coronavirus Turned a Rural County Into a Battleground for Millionaires

When the Myth of Voter Fraud Comes for You

The Paperwork Coup

America Is Not Ready For Omicron

We Know Enough About Omicron to Know That We’re in Trouble

America Is Not Ready For Omicron

Don’t Be Surprised When You Get Omicron

Don’t Panic About Omicron. But Don’t Dismiss It, Either. 

Omicron Will Overwhelm America’s Emergency Rooms

Omicron Is the Beginning of the End

Omicron Is Our Past Pandemic Mistakes on Fast-Forward

Does It’s a Wonderful Life Have a Happy Ending?

Is [REDACTED] a Christmas Movie?

Omicron Is Pushing America Into Soft Lockdown

The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.

How I Demolished My Life

Our Relationship With COVID Vaccines Is Just Getting Started

Omicron Is Pushing America Into Soft Lockdown

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