2022: THE ATLANTIC (291)

JANUARY

Trump Is Making the Midterms a Referendum on Himself

The U.S. Is Naive About Russia. Ukraine Can’t Afford to Be.

How Britain Falls Apart

Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun

Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble

You Can’t Simply Decide to Be a Different Person

COVID Isolation Is a Lot Like … Muffin Baking

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

Omicron Is Forcing Us to Rethink Mild COVID

The Bold Economic Move Joe Biden Refuses to Make

Calling Omicron ‘Mild’ Is Wishful Thinking

The Supreme Court Has Anointed Itself Czar of the Country’s COVID Rules

The Worst of the Omicron Wave Could Still Be Coming

Trump Soft-Launches His 2024 Campaign

How Manchin and Sinema Completed a Conservative Vision

The Silent, Vaccinated, Impatient Majority

People Are Hiding That Their Unvaccinated Loved Ones Died of COVID

Why Biden Had No Other Choice on Voting Rights

Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump

Only Putin Knows What Happens Next

Idaho Is Sitting on One of the Most Important Elements on Earth

The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America

The Case Against Masks at School

The Battle for the Future of the West

Republicans Are Trying to Suppress More Than Votes

The Enduring Lessons of the ‘Axis of Evil’ Speech

When Will Be a Good Time to Buy a House?

The Betrayal

FEBRUARY

We’re Thinking About Endemicity All Wrong

Hospitals Can’t Accept This as ‘Normal’

What Does Putin Really Want?

The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo

It’s Not ‘The’ Ukraine

APRIL

How the West Got Russia’s Military So, So Wrong

RT America, You Were Very Weird and Bad

How Ukraine Is Upending European Politics

A Covert Network of Activists Is Preparing for the End of Roe

America Is Staring Down Its First So What? Wave

The Russian Military Has Descended Into Inhumanity

I Tried to Put Russia on Another Path

Obama: I Underestimated the Threat of Disinformation

A Covert Network of Activists Is Preparing for the End of Roe

Why Ukraine Is Winning

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

Among Europe’s Ex-Royals

The Pandemic Has Trapped Millions in Unending Grief

This Is the War’s Decisive Moment

Liberation Without Victory

The Danger More Republicans Should Be Talking About

Liberation Without Victory

The End of Presidential Debates

Trump Supporters Explain Why They Believe the Big Lie

Russia’s Isolation From the West Will Outlast the War

What Happened to Jon Stewart?

Kevin McCarthy’s Sloppy, Artless Lie

‘If Macron Loses, Putin Wins.’

Ukraine and the Words That Lead to Mass Murder

Why Americans Are Leaving Downtowns in Droves

Just Call Trump a Loser

They Called Her ‘Black Jet’

Are We in the Middle of an Invisible COVID Wave?

Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

MAY

Are We in the Middle of an Invisible COVID Wave?

‘We Can Only Be Enemies’

Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century

The Holocaust Started With My Great-Uncle’s Murder

Liberty No More

Nothing Beautiful Survives the Culture War

The Southernization of the Pro-Life Movement

How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church

The Democrats’ Midterm Identity Crisis

How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church

I Invented Gilead. The Supreme Court Is Making It Real.

How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church

America’s Gun Plague

Joan Didion’s Magic Trick

White Power, White Violence

The Myth That Roe Broke America

The U.S. Housing Market Has Peaked

The Double Terror of Being Black in America

The Doom Spiral of Pernicious Polarization

A Whole Age of Warfare Sank With the Moskva

The War Won’t End Until Putin Loses

The People Who Hate People

10 Years After Sandy Hook, Here We Are Again

A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future

What It Feels Like to Lose Your Child in a Mass Shooting

You Are Going to Get COVID Again … And Again … And Again

How to Really Fix Higher Ed

JUNE

We Have No Nuclear Strategy

Our Narrative of Mass Shootings Is Killing Us

We Should Have Seen Monkeypox Coming

The Uvalde Police Chose Dishonor

A Chilling Assassination in Wisconsin

American Rasputin

Why Is Dad So Mad?

How San Francisco Became a Failed City

Vaccines for the Littlest Kids Have Already Flopped

The One Witness at the January 6 Hearing Who Matters Most

A Negative COVID Test Has Never Been So Meaningless

American Rasputin

How Animals Perceive the World

The January 6 Committee Is Not Messing Around

They Bent to Their Knees and Kissed the Sand

Why Biden Shouldn’t Run in 2024

A Lost Trove of Civil War Gold, an FBI Excavation, and Some Very Angry Treasure Hunters

Souvenirs From a Civilization That Kills Its Children

Does the Jason Kander Story Have a Third Act?

The Open Secret of Google Search

Dave Chappelle’s Not Kidding

Beware the Luxury Beach Resort

The Next Fight Over Guns in America

If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything

The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is

America Is About to See Just How Pro-life Reublicans Actually Are

Why I’m Talking About My Abortion

The Dumbest Coup Attempt

the Reason Liz Cheney Is Narrating the January 6 Story

JULY

Ukraine Has Exposed Russia as a Not-So-Great Power

You Can Spot Climate Change in Old Restaurant Menus

America Is in Denial

A Crisis Historian Has Some Bad News for Us

Hybrid Work Is Doomed

The Most Pathetic Men in America

What Happened to Michael Flynn?

The Most Pathetic Men in America

Introducing the Atlantic Archive

Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder

Russia’s War Against Ukraine Has Turned Into Terrorism

The BA.5 Wave Is What COVID Normal Looks Like

Mother Nature Dissents

It’s Joe Manchin’s America

New COVID Vaccines Will be Ready This Fall. America Won’t Be.

The Cause of the Crime Wave Is Hiding in Plain Sight

The World Is Burning Once Again

America’s Self-Obsession Is Killing Its Democracy

The Inescapable Conclusion From the January 6 Hearings

America Is Running Out of ‘COVID Virgins’

Could Genetics Be the Key to Never Getting the Coronavirus?

The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer. Now It’s Killing Us.

Trump Just Told Us His Masterplan

Yes, Social Media Really Is Undermining Democracy

America Should Have Been Able to Handle Monkeypox

Of Course Biden Has Rebound COVID

AUGUST

American Motherhood

A Key 9/11 Plotter Is Dead. He Was Already Irrelevant.

The Wedding Present

Alex Jones Can’t Pretend His Way Out of This Reality

The Radical Fringe That Just Went Mainstream in Arizona

12 Books to Help You Love Reading Again

An American Catastrophe

Stuck With Trump

What Comes After the Search Warrant?

Now They’re Calling for Violence

Liz Cheney, the Republican From the State of Reality

Trump’s Scandals Are Never Done

Dead to Rights

I Smuggled My Laptop Past the Taliban So I Could Write This Story

The Republicans Have a Trump Problem. Again.

Paul Manafort Is Back

How to Kill a Newspaper

The HGTV-ification of America

End Times in Aspen

Mike Pence Owes the Country an Explanation

A Murder in Russia

There Is No National Teacher Shortage

Actually, Canceling Student Debt Will Cut Inflation

America’s Fall Booster Plan Has a Fatal Paradox

What the Search-Warrant Affidavit Tells Us

A Simple Rule for Planning Your Fall Booster Shot

Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This

Scenes From Ukrainian Summer Camp

Gorbachev Never Realized What He Set in Motion

SEPTEMBER

Trump Can’t Hide From the Mar-a-Lago Photo

The Justification for Biden’s Speech

Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This

The Wrath of a Woman Without Any Options

Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked Into It. 

Ukrainians Are Defending the Values Americans Claim to Hold

‘Lukashenko Is Easier to Unseat Than Putin’

The Man Who Chased History

How She Did It

The iPhone Isn’t Cool

What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind

One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood

The Myopia Generation

Redshirt the Boys

Of God and Machines

Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend

Nice Democracy You’ve Got Here. Shame If Something Happened to It.

The Republican Party Was Trumpy Long Before Trump

Let Puerto Rico Be Free

Killed for Walking a Dog

The Tipping Point of Stupid

The ‘End’ of COVID Is Still Far Worse Than We Imagined

Did a Famous Doctor’s COVID Shot Make His Cancer Worse?

Three Conversations With Donald Trump

China’s Mistakes Can Be America’s Gain

Teachers, Nurses, and Child-Care Workers Have Had Enough

Russia’s Nuclear Threats Are All Putin Has Left

How the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually Bankrupt

Putin’s Newest Annexation Is Dire for Russia Too

OCTOBER

Dead Man Living

The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat

The United States of Confederate America

Warning Signs About the First Post-pandemic Winter

The Climate Economy Is About to Explode

Why Putin Made Peace With the Soviets’ Arch Enemies

How Hitler’s Enablers Undid Democracy in Germany

Trumpism Has Found Its Leading Lady

The War That Russia Already Lost

The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump

How Bad Can a Lawyer Be?

The Improbable Rise and Savage Fall of Siegfried & Roy

One Ukrainian City in the Way of Putin’s New Total War

The Masks We’ll Wear in the Next Pandemic

The Perfect Candidate for a Fallen Party

More Proof That This Really Is the End of History

The Prime Minister Who Did Everything Wrong

This Is Not Justice

It’s Gotten Awkward to Wear a Mask

Britain’s Guilty Men and Women

The Words About Ukraine That Americans Need to Hear

Herschel Walker and the Plight of the True Conservative Voter

The Words About Ukraine That Americans Need to Hear

The Wreckage of Neoliberalism

The Impeachment of Joe Biden

Kanye West Destroys Himself

A Political Party Unhinged From Truth

Mississippi Shows What’s Wrong With Welfare in America

What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture

The Too-Muchness of Bono

NOVEMBER

The Cold Dose of Reality Awaiting Elon Musk

The Murders in Memphis Aren’t Stopping

Why Democrats Are Losing Hispanic Voters

What’s the One Book That Explains American Politics Today?

America Ruined College Football. Now College Football Is Ruining America.

Democrats’ Long Goodbye to the Working Class

What Joe Biden Has (And Hasn’t) Accomplished

Why Is America Always Divided 50-50?

Trump Lost the Midterms. DeSantis Won.

More MAGA Than Ever

The Age of Social Media Is Ending

You Can Forget About Crypto Now

Monuments to the Unthinkable

The Questions We Don’t Ask Our Families but Should

Trump’s Running, and Republicans Have Only Themselves to Blame

Why Everything in Tech Seems to Be Collapsing at Once

Why Elon Musk Is Blowing Up Twitter’s Business

Do You Really Want a New Kitchen Counter?

Trump’s Terrifically Stupid Return to Twitter

Rethinking ‘Run, Hide, Fight’

Inside the Mind of an Anti-Vaxxer

The Crime Spike Is No Mystery

Is Food Getting Better?

New York’s Grand Dame of Dog Poisoning

The Future of American Warfare Is Unfolding in Ukraine

Football Has Found Its New Bogeyman

China’s Zero Tolerance for Xi’s COVID Restrictions

The Supreme Court Case That’s All About Donald Trump

Just Wait Until You Get to Know Ron DeSantis

DECEMBER

The People Cheering for Humanity’s End

The GOP Can’t Hide From Extremism

Kanye West Finally Says What He Means

The Jerry Jones Photo Explains a Lot

Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?

What the Georgia Runoff Revealed

China’s COVID Wave is Coming

The Federal Reserve’s Artificial Recession

We’re All Capable of Going ‘Goblin Mode’

The Woman Who Made Online Dating Into a ‘Science’

Why the Age of American Progress Ended

The Atlantic 10

The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline

The 10 Best Albums of 2022

Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?

How Tall Is Too Tall?

Like Uber, but for Militias

Welcome, Tentatively, to the Resistance

The Prosecution of Trump Runs Into Some Serious First Amendment Troubles

Zelensky Knows the Clock Is Ticking

The Brutal Alternate World in Which the U.S. Abandoned Ukraine

The Biggest Takeaway from the January 6 Report

Nasal Vaccines Are Here

How the French Do Christmas

The Cynic’s Dilemma

The Married Mom Advantage

Poverty Is Violent

The End of the Silicon Valley Myth

The IRS Really, Really Should Have Audited Trump

Rethinking the European Conquest of Native Americans

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