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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 colleague George Packer argues that the country has fragmented into four groups, each informed by a distinct...

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 school, but after a year of remote classes, she is totally unmotivated.

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, while she’s been in “hybrid” school (a combination of both remote and in person). She studies ...

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 seeds their growth. And as the Earth continues to warm from rising levels of greenhouse gases, this pro...