e Historian Who Sees the Future
Peter Turchin believes he has discovered iron laws that dictate the rise and fall of civilizations. He predicts a dire decade for the United States.
By Graeme Wood

When a Child Is a Weapon
Family courts are often at a loss when one parent turns a child against the other in a divorce. Some judges are forcing kids to attend “reunication camps” with the mom or dad they hate.
By Barbara Bradley Hagerty

How Politics Poisoned the Church
e evangelical movement spent 40 years at war with secular America. Now it’s at war with itself.
By Tim Alberta

Chasing Joan Didion
What was it that gave her such power?
By Caitlin Flanagan

The Abortion Underground: Inside the covert network preparing for a post-Roe future By Jessica Bruder

Ukraine and the End of the Liberal World Order
By Anne Applebaum How Social Media Made America Stupid By Jonathan Haidt Europe’s Ex-Royals By Helen Lewis.

Tour Guides to a Tragedy: The killing of three civil-rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 changed America. But today, if you want to know what happened here, you need to know who to ask. By Ko Bragg...

ABSOLUTE POWER

THE CROWN PRINCE, A M URDER, AND THE FUTURE OF SAUDI ARABIA 
BY GRAEME WOOD

THE BETRAYAL
America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added moral injury to military failure. But a group of soldiers, veterans, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor.
By George Packer

It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart
e older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them.
By Jennifer Senior

JANUARY 6 WAS PRACTICE - Donald Trump is better positioned to subvert an election now than he was in 2020. By Barton Gellman.

The Children Are in Danger! - Well-meaning Americans are raising money and awareness about a sextrafficking epidemic that doesn’t exist. By Kaitlyn Tiffany.

The Small Lie - To support the Republican myth that our elections are rife with fraud, someone needs to take the fall. By Vann R. Newkirk II.

The Antiquities Cop - Matthew Bogdanos is on a mission to prosecute dealers and collectors
who traffic in the looted relics of ancient civilizations. By Ariel Sabar.

The Autocrats Are Winning - If the 20th century was the story of liberal democracy’s progress toward victory over other ideologies, the 21st century is a story of the reverse. By Anne Applebaum.

France’s God Complex - Is religion a threat to national identity? By Rachel Donadio.

THE ENGINEERS' DAUGHTER
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from injury. A freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
By Daniel Engber

The New Meth
The drug is creating a wave of mental illness and contributing to homelessness. Here’s the story of how it spread and what it’s doing to people.
By Sam Quinones

Blame the Bobos
The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead, we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction.
By David Brooks

The Heroine’s Journey
In Joseph Campbell’s study of world myths, women were in the background. A new book puts them at the center.
By James Parker

The World Kodak Made - The tech giant of the 20th century changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. Now it’s trying to reinvent itself. By Kaitlyn Tiany.

The Minister of Chaos - Boris Johnson knows exactly what he’s doing. By Tom McTague.

The Four Americas - Competing visions of the country’s purpose and meaning are tearing it apart. Is reconciliation possible? By George Packer.

The War on Nostalgia
What will it take to end the myth of the Lost Cause?
By Clint Smith

The Neglected
Origin Stories of Black America
By Annette Gordon-Reed

The Diplomat Who Disappeared - In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom. By Brendan I. Koerner.

How Will We Remember the Pandemic? - The science of how our memories form—and how they shape our future. By Melissa Fay Greene.

Private Schools Are Indefensible
By Caitlin Flanagan

The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Awful
By Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev

We Mourn for All We Do Not Know - The Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives provide a rare window into Black American heritage. By Clint Smith

A Forgotten Founder - Prince Hall’s life deserves to be reinserted into the tale of America’s creation. By Danielle Allen

When America Became a Democracy - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally delivered on the stated ideals of this country. Now it hangs by a thread. By Vann R. Newkirk II

How Far Should Biden Go?
When it comes to exposing the
misdeeds of Trump and his
enablers, the new president
should pick his battles carefully.
By James Fallows.



The Committee on
Life and Death
As COVID-19 has overwhelmed
hospitals, the lack of clear bioethical
guidelines has meant that
doctors have had to make wrenching
life-and-death decisions on
the fly. As the country prepares to
distribute vaccines, we’re at risk of
reprising this chaos.
By Jordan Kisner.


The COVID-19
Manhattan Project
Never have so many researchers
trained their minds on a single
problem in so brief a time.
Science will never be the same.
By Ed Yong.

"CIVIL WAR IS HERE NOW" By Mike Giglio - The president’s supporters on the militant right are bracing for conflict.

The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League–Obsessed Parents the desperation is palpable. By Ruth S. Barrett.

The Election That Could Break America - If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos. Who will stop him? By Barton Gellman.

The Next Reconstruction
The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy.
By Adam Serwer

Make America Again
We may be on the cusp of an era of radical reform that advances citizens’ rights, restores opportunity, and repairs our broken democracy.
By George Packer

Toby Dorr’s Great Escape
Ever thought about breaking free, abandoning your responsibilities, running away from your life?
By Michael J. Mooney

When China Sees All - Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology around the globe. By Ross Andersen.

What Is MasterClass Actually Selling? The ads are everywhere: Learn to serve like Serena Williams or write like Margaret Atwood. But MasterClass delivers something altogether different. By Carina Chocano.

Protest Works How the Black Lives Matter demonstrations will shake up the 2020 election—and reshape American politics for a generation to come By Daniel Q. Gillion.

OPENING ARGUMENT
A Presidential Guide to Crisis Management
What Trump should have learned from his predecessors
By John Dickerson

MATERIAL WORLD
The Triumph of the Slob
How the virus redeemed clutter
By Amanda Mull

OMNIVORE
“How Did I End Up Like This?”
Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness
By James Parker

Operation firstfruits
Where is the line between journalism and espionage? And what happens when your own government thinks you’ve crossed it?
By Barton Gellman

The Case of the Phantom Papyrus
A renowned Oxford scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment whose text closely matched modern Bibles. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.
By Ariel Sabar

“At 14, I Could’ve
Pointed Out Everybody
Who Would Be Dead”
Nikki King grew up
surrounded by the opioid
epidemic. Now she’s leading
a novel and promising
program to help people in
rural areas.
By Beth Macy.



What China Wants
Chinese leaders’ combination
of superiority and insecurity
is growing more dangerous.
­e U.S. needs a new
strategy to reflect that.
By H. R. McMaster.


Being Friends With
Philip Roth
During his last two decades,
we spent thousands of hours
in each other’s company. Ours
was a conversation neither of
us could have done without.
By Benjamin Taylor

Something in the Water Opposition to water fluoridation, while vocal, has been largely a fringe crusade. But solid evidence for fluoridation’s value is surprisingly hard to find. By Charles C. Mann.

How to Tackle a Giraffe The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think. Saving it begins with a daunting act of physical courage. By Ed Yong.

What Happened to Jake Millison? When a young rancher went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends knew him better than that, and refused to let him simply disappear. By Rachel Monroe.

THE NUCLEAR FAMILY WAS A MISTAKE By David Brooks The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

The 2020 Disinformation War Deepfakes, anonymous text messages, Potemkin local news sites, and opposition research on reporters—a field guide to this year’s election and what it could do to the country By McKay Coppins. 

The Abortion Doctor and His Accuser When a reproductive-rights activist accused one of the most respected physicians in the movement of sexually assaulting her, everyone quickly took sides. The divide exposed differences among women that are typically expressed only in private. By Maggie Bullock

20,000 Feet Under the Sea Mining companies are preparing to extract minerals from the bottom of the ocean that could wean the Earth from fossil fuels. Scientists are still discovering what habitats these companies might destroy in the process. The race between the two groups may determine the fate of the oceans—and the planet. By Wil S. Hylton.

Retreat, Christian Soldiers Members of a conservative- Catholic group have built a thriving community in rural Kansas. Could their flight from mainstream society be a harbinger for the nation? By Emma Green.

Why It Feels Like Everything Is Going Haywire Social media has destabilized democracy. What can we do? By Jonathan Haidt and Tobias Rose-Stockwell.

What Would Mister Rogers Do? He’s never been more revered—or more misunderstood. By Tom Junod.

Too Much Democracy Is Bad for Democracy America’s primary system is a radical experiment—and it’s failing. By Jonathan Rauch and Ray La Raja.

Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan BY FRANKLIN FOER What he wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us.

The End of Silence BY BIANCA BOSKER In Chandler, Arizona, on the edge of the desert, a low whine began. It seemed to be coming from everywhere. And it wouldn’t stop.

GoFundMe Nation BY RACHEL MONROE The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. The reflection isn’t always pretty.

The Man Who
Couldn’t Take It Anymore
BY JEFFREY GOLDBERG
“I had no choice but to leave,”
General James Mattis says of his
decision to resign as President
Trump’s secretary of defense.


When the Culture War Comes for the Kids BY GEORGE PACKER
Caught between a brutal
meritocracy and a radical new
progressivism, a parent tries to do
right by his children while navigating
New York City’s schools.


Succession
BY MCKAY COPPINS
Who will control the next
generation of the Trump dynasty?

Life With Lyme BY MEGHAN O’ROURKE After years of being ill, I found myself with one of medicine’s most bitterly contested diagnoses. But new insights are at last accumulating.

What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi? BY BEN RHODES She was a human-rights icon. Now she serves a government that has been accused of genocide. An inquiry into her fall from grace.

Meritocracy’s Miserable Winners BY DANIEL MARKOVITS The system that’s widened the gap between the rich and everyone else has also turned elite life into an endless, terrible competition. Maybe there’s a way out.

Raj Chetty’s American Dream BY GARETH COOK The economist whose work dispelled the myth of social mobility in the U.S. has a plan to make it a reality.

The True-Crime Writer in Cellblock B4 BY RACHEL MONROE Matthew Cox was a master of mortgage fraud, spinning tales and scamming his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s got a new game: selling stories that are true.

The Metamorphosis BY HENRY A. KISSINGER, ERIC SCHMIDT, AND DANIEL HUTTENLOCHER AI will bring many wonders. It may also destabilize everything from nuclear détente to human friendships. We need to think much harder about how to adapt.

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