The Atlantic

People who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine will have higher health-care costs. The rest of us will foot the bill.

Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Biden’s infrastructure plan.

Many Americans would recognize the dilemma of Reuven, an anonymous Yiddish-magazine editor who is anguished by his community’s moral failures in the pandemic.

His proposals are radical. He’s obsessed with robots. He’s never even worked in government. And next year he might be running New York.

Summer programs will help. But they won’t be enough.

A man calling himself Grandmaster Jay has raised a disciplined, heavily armed militia. It has yet to fire a shot at its enemies, but it’s prepared for war.

Representative Eric Swalwell built a public profile criticizing the ex-president. He’s still figuring out what’s next.

People are stretching the truth to get the vaccine faster, but experts say I shouldn’t. Here’s why.

The party is trying to ban partisan gerrymandering nationwide, but aggressively redrawing districts in blue states like New York might be the only way to preserve its House majority.

Every day, in small towns and cities across the country, thousands of people are booked into local jails, many for minor crimes. Some never come home.

The pandemic’s retreat doesn’t necessarily mean life will get easier for people with OCD.

Yes, he wants to avoid making a gaffe, but he also doesn’t want to be an in-your-face president.

The fight between politicians, parents, and teachers over school reopenings could soon affect elections.

State GOP lawmakers want to maximize their party’s advantage in the next presidential race, but their approach is far from consistent.

All in the Family was the first program to genuinely reckon with the cultural upheaval of 1960s America. TV would never be the same.

Democrats did the work, Republicans didn’t—and that says a lot about the two parties.

What a spiritual adviser saw when the federal government executed a man on death row.

After 62 years, the space agency will have to wait a little longer for its first female leader.

How the president can partner directly with America’s biggest cities and suburbs—even in the reddest states

The need exists, but the path toward a bill is far from obvious.

Immigrant laborers have been dying tragic, sometimes grisly deaths on construction sites across the country. These deaths rarely make news, but they tell the story of an industry indifferent to the lives of its workers.

A new bill proposes making daylight saving time permanent. But for one family, it already is.

America’s second-ever Catholic president supports abortion rights, leaving the bishops unsure about how to move forward.

People refer to various forms of malaise as “burnout,” but it’s technically a work problem. And only your employer can solve it.

There’s never been a statewide politician like John Fetterman. Now he’s a front-runner for the U.S. Senate.