COVID-19

May 20, 2025

A collage of director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's face, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, President Donald Trump's face, and renderings of Covid-19's spike protein.

Letters

The Power of a Good Suit

June 2025 Issue

An overhead photograph of the The Atlantic magazine opened to a spread of the March 2025 article by David Frum.

Health

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

Katherine J. Wu

May 6, 2025

Health

The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen

David Zweig

April 17, 2025

Health

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

Katherine J. Wu

April 11, 2025

Health

What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different

Sarah Zhang

April 7, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

Rebecca Nagle

April 1, 2025

COVID-19: Five Years Later

The Evermaskers

Daniel Engber

April 1, 2025

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Health

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

Katherine J. Wu

March 21, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About

Sunita Puri

March 18, 2025

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Books Briefing

The Literature of the Pandemic

Maya Chung

March 14, 2025

Politics

DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk

Brian Klaas

March 12, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

Roxanne Khamsi

March 11, 2025

COVID-19: Five Years Later

The Novel I’m Searching For

Lily Meyer

March 11, 2025

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Health

America Is Botching Measles

Katherine J. Wu

March 7, 2025

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Health

RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles

Benjamin Mazer

February 27, 2025

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COVID-19: Five Years Later

COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution

Sarah Zhang

February 24, 2025

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Ideas

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

Derek Thompson

February 18, 2025

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Ideas

I’ve Never Seen Parents This Freaked Out About Vaccines

Emily Oster

February 13, 2025

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Ideas

Why the COVID Deniers Won

David Frum

March 2025 Issue

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Health

What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?

Nicholas Florko

February 11, 2025

Politics

Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly

Rogé Karma

February 3, 2025

Health

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like

Katherine J. Wu

January 28, 2025

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Health

RFK Jr. Is an Excellent Conspiracy Theorist

Benjamin Mazer

January 27, 2025

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Culture

What David Lynch Knew About the Weather

Gal Beckerman

January 18, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

Lora Kelley

January 15, 2025

Swabbing a rooster to test for avian influenza

Ideas

MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World

Helen Lewis

January 15, 2025

Being Human

A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs

Daniel Engber

January 14, 2025

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Health

America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out

Yasmin Tayag

December 19, 2024

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Health

Everyone Agrees Americans Aren’t Healthy

Nicholas Florko

November 25, 2024

Two bandaids cross over an American flag

Health

Revenge of the COVID Contrarians

Benjamin Mazer

November 25, 2024

RFK Jr's face behind stripes of translucent red circles

Health

We’re About to Find Out How Much Americans Like Vaccines

Daniel Engber

November 20, 2024

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Ideas

Democrats Deserved to Lose

Josh Barro

November 8, 2024

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Politics

How Donald Trump Won Everywhere

Derek Thompson

November 6, 2024

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Health

Public-Health Officials Should Have Been Talking About Their Sex Parties the Whole Time

Kristen V. Brown

September 20, 2024

Ideas

Why Didn’t Facing a Common Enemy Bring Us Together?

Francis S. Collins

September 15, 2024

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Sections

The Print Edition

Trump Thinks He Knows What Started the Pandemic

The Power of a Good Suit

‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’

The Disaster of School Closures Should Have Been Foreseen

Trump’s Revenge on Public Health

What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different

Long COVID Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care

The Evermaskers

What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’

The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About

The Literature of the Pandemic

DOGE Is Courting Catastrophic Risk

America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease

The Novel I’m Searching For

America Is Botching Measles

RFK Jr., America’s Leading Advocate for Getting Measles

COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

I’ve Never Seen Parents This Freaked Out About Vaccines

Why the COVID Deniers Won

What Happens When Bird Flu Gets Worse?

Purging the Government Could Backfire Spectacularly

What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like

RFK Jr. Is an Excellent Conspiracy Theorist

What David Lynch Knew About the Weather

How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World

A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs

America’s Bird-Flu Luck Has Officially Run Out

Everyone Agrees Americans Aren’t Healthy

Revenge of the COVID Contrarians

We’re About to Find Out How Much Americans Like Vaccines

Democrats Deserved to Lose

How Donald Trump Won Everywhere

Public-Health Officials Should Have Been Talking About Their Sex Parties the Whole Time

Why Didn’t Facing a Common Enemy Bring Us Together?