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El cuento de Juan Segundo Nunca tuve muy claro si lo que querían decir era segundo o 2º. En los pueblos son más de hablar las cosas o de estrechar manos; y de escribir algo menos. Y además, suelen conocerse unos a otros por motes. En este caso, lo de segundo no era un mote. Sencillamente es que en aquella familia que vivía en una aldea en un duro piedemonte tenía que haber un Juan. Y lo hubo. Y murió pequeño; un invierno largo y unas malas fiebres no ayudaron mucho y se marchó. Y no fue el único. En aquella familia nacieron muchos hijos, de los cuales sobrevivir hasta más allá d...

The Atlantic Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty My most intimate relationship of 2020 was with the internet. I did my job online, and talked to my friends online, and streamed hundreds of hours of TV that I’d already seen online, just to fill my empty apartment with human sounds. I used the internet to put scary Instagram filters on my face, and join a mutual-aid Slack group, and reflexively refresh the coronavirus case count in my zip code, and attend my cousin’s wedding, and blog about a parasocial relationship with an online Pilates instructor. I know I’m not alone in feeling that the...

Public policy should assist families—but not by helping adults spend more time on the job.

CSA Images / Designer 29 / Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic A few weeks ago, my partially vaccinated partner and my wholly unvaccinated self got an invitation to a group dinner, held unmasked and indoors. There’d be Thai food for 10, we were promised, and two über-immunized hosts, more than two weeks out from their last Moderna doses. And what about everyone else? I asked. Would they be fully vaccinated, too? Well, came the response. Not really. Some would be, some wouldn’t. But it had been so long—weren’t we close enough? The answer was of course no, and my partner and I ende...