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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: America Isn’t Split in Half. It’s Divided Into Four. The country has fragmented into four groups, our writer argues, each informed by a distinct narrative about the nation’s moral identity. Share Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. To understand America, you must first assemble the pieces. In the latest issue of our magazine, my colleagu...

An expensive and convoluted health-care system has led some couples to look for unregulated genetic material on Facebook.

The Atlantic Homeroom: My Daughter Is Lying to Me About School She says she’s done her work, but her teacher tells me she hasn’t. What should I do? Elena Xausa Editor’s Note: Every Tuesday, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer take questions from readers about their kids’ education. Have one? Email them at homeroom@theatlantic.com. Dear Abby and Brian, I’m writing about my daughter, a seventh grader whom I’ll call Z. Her school has been fully remote since last spring. Z used to love sch...

The Atlantic She’s always been a perfectionist—but in the pandemic, this tendency has gotten worse. Elena Xausa Editor’s Note: Every Tuesday, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer take questions from readers about their kids’ education. Have one? Email them at homeroom@theatlantic.com. Dear Abby and Brian, My daughter, whom I’ll call Laura, is in seventh grade and has always been a perfectionist, especially when it comes to her schoolwork. But everything has been far worse this past year, ...

The Atlantic Tiny iodine particles are clumping together to trap sunlight and melt polar sea ice. Christian Vorhofer/ imageBROKER / Alamy To climate scientists, clouds are powerful, pillowy paradoxes. They can reflect away the sun’s heat but also trap it in the atmosphere; they can be products of warming temperatures but can also amplify their effects. Now, while studying the atmospheric chemistry that produces clouds, researchers have uncovered an unexpectedly potent natural process that see...

  >> Tariro Mzezewa, The New York Times  Published: 17 Jan 2021 12:39 PM BdST Updated: 17 Jan 2021 12:39 PM BdST Ingrid Abbott, 11, with the butterfly museum she created out of a cardboard box. Exploring a passion at home can fill the void, say experts.The New York Times Teddy Johnson has a clear fantasy for what he’s going to do the day the pandemic is “over” — whatever that day might look like, and whenever it may be. "); } He’s banking on the day being sunny, perhaps the tempe...

The Atlantic We’re behind, but that may change quickly. January 8, 2021 Operation Warp Speed pledged to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of 2020. We fell far, far short of that. How worried should we be? Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary of homeland security and an Atlantic contributor, joins staff writer James Hamblin and executive producer Katherine Wells on the podcast Social Distance. She explains what’s going on, what the problems have been, and why we shouldn’...