Epidemics and Pandemics - The Atlantic

Epidemics and Pandemics

I Thought Stage IV Cancer Was Bad Enough

Caitlin Flanagan

June 2020 Issue

Masks Are a Tool, Not a Symbol

Conor Friedersdorf

May 5, 2020

A man wearing a face mask.

The Atlantic Daily: The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

May 4, 2020

Drake Responds to the Pandemic in a Predictably Drake Way

Spencer Kornhaber

May 4, 2020

A still from Drake's 'Toosie Slide' video.

Being a Parent Has Made My Pandemic Life Simpler, If You Can Believe It

May 4, 2020

A mother and her child hold hands in a park.

Work From Home Is Here to Stay

May 4, 2020

Dear Therapist: The Pandemic Has Changed My Relationship With My Therapist

May 4, 2020

We Should All Be Preppers

Bradley Garrett

May 3, 2020

A pantry in the 1930s

We Are Losing a Generation of Civil-Rights Memories

Leta McCollough Seletzky

May 3, 2020

Trump Tries to Be Normal

Andrew Ferguson

May 2, 2020

Trump Brings Religion Into the Coronavirus Culture War

May 1, 2020

A demonstrator in Maryland protesting the state's closures

Coronavirus: COVID-19

I Have Seen the Future—And It’s Not the Life We Knew

May 1, 2020

People look out at the city skyline from Mount Namsan in Seoul, South Korea

All the Things We Have to Mourn Now

May 1, 2020

Should You Get an Antibody Test?

May 1, 2020

How New Jersey’s Governor Figured Out Trump

Edward-Isaac Dovere

May 1, 2020

Governor Phil Murphy speaking to the camera

Coronavirus: COVID-19

You Should Politicize the Coronavirus

May 1, 2020

The Coronavirus Conspiracy Boom

Joseph E. Uscinski and Adam M. Enders

April 30, 2020

illustration of someone peeking through yellow tape labeled "quarantine"

Atlanta Isn’t Ready to Reopen—And Neither Is Georgia

Keisha Lance Bottoms

April 30, 2020

A hotel displaying a "Be Safe Atlanta" sign in Atlanta, Georgia.

To Safely Reopen, Make the Workweek Shorter. Then Keep It Shorter.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

April 30, 2020

An illustration of a calendar with Fridays crossed out.

A Throwback Way to Win a Pandemic Election

April 30, 2020

Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice

April 29, 2020

A stylist wearing a protective mask cuts a customer's hair at a barbershop in Atlanta.

Friends Are Breaking Up Over Social Distancing

April 29, 2020

Two halves of a set of "Best Friends" necklaces are set apart by a line of measurement.

Why Trump Was Deaf to All the Warnings He Received

David A. Graham

April 29, 2020

‘We’re Literally Killing Elders Now’

April 29, 2020

Disease Has Never Been Just Disease for Native Americans

April 29, 2020

An illustration of Native Americans with red dots surrounding them.

Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing

April 29, 2020

Efficiency Is Biting Back

April 29, 2020

An illustration of a hospital bed with drawings on top.

States Are Using the Pandemic to Roll Back Americans’ Rights

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr.

April 29, 2020

An illustration of an American flag with coronavirus cells replacing the stars.

Social Distance

Listen: Will the Restaurants Come Back?

April 28, 2020

Quarantine Could Change How Americans Think of Incarceration

April 28, 2020

The False Hope of Antibody Tests

April 28, 2020

Illustration of finger-prick antibody tests

The Democrats Have No Good Options

Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes

April 28, 2020

Nancy Pelosi wearing a scarf over her face.

Medication Shortages Are the Next Crisis

Jeremy Samuel Faust

April 28, 2020

A photo of pills

No Testing, No Treatment, No Herd Immunity, No Easy Way Out

April 28, 2020

An illustration of the sky opening up to darkness.

Social Distance

Listen: How Much Does It Cost to Get COVID-19?

April 27, 2020

Insane Clown Posse Is Modeling Ideal Pandemic Leadership

Spencer Kornhaber

April 27, 2020

An Insane Clown Posse photo illustration