The President and the Pope
Panelists joined to discuss Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV for his comments about the war in Iran.
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The Iran War Is Putting Pressure on Europe
Panelists joined to discuss the effects of the conflict on America’s allies, and more.
What Trump’s Address to the Nation Revealed
Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss the president’s first national address since the war with Iran began.
Trump’s Mixed Messages About Iran
Panelists joined to discuss the president’s shifting answers to how the conflict could end.
Is Anybody Actually Winning Trump’s Iran War?
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger on the U.S.-Iran cease-fire, Trump’s Hormuz blockade, and China’s reaction to the Iran war. Plus: A seismic election in Hungary, and Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges.
What It Means to Be American
Fareed Zakaria and David Frum on whether they regret becoming American citizens. Plus: how 18 years of economic turmoil ushered in a new populist era, and a discussion of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.
Watching War From the Strait of Hormuz
Graeme Wood on what he saw at the Strait of Hormuz and the lockdown of oil in the Persian Gulf. Plus: Trump’s war-information blackout and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense at 250 years old.
The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West
The historian Andrew Roberts on why many right-wing podcasters now believe that the wrong side won the Second World War, and the rise of algorithmically driven pseudo-historians. Plus: Trump is looking for an off-ramp from his war in Iran, and Gore Vidal’s novel Burr.
What Social Distance Looks Like Across the World
People from more than 30 countries share joyous moments from their lives in quarantine.
The Pandemic, According to Kids
Children ages 7 to 11 share their thoughts, opinions, and feelings about the global pandemic.
Portraits of Isolation in the Arctic
A photographer captures his northern Canadian community in quarantine.
A Small-Town Plague
As the opioid crisis rages on in rural America, an innovative new treatment program emerges.
What Doctors Are Afraid Of
At the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers describe a new world of chaos, fear, and suffering.
The Surreality of Central Park’s Field Hospital
Impressions of the new tent hospital erected by the Christian nonprofit Samaritan’s Purse
A Disturbing Look Inside an Italian Hospital
“Seeing people one step away from dying kills a little part of you.”
The Art of Comedy in Quarantine
As China enters its eighth week in quarantine, citizens turn to TikTok for a comedic reprieve.
What Misinformation Has to Do With Toilet Paper
In 1973, Johnny Carson spread an unsubstantiated rumor that sent America into a panic-buying frenzy.
10 Days Later: What Italians Wish They Had Known
Quarantined Italians record messages to themselves 10 days ago, when the pandemic hadn’t yet killed 1,809 people and infected more than 24,000 across the country.