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The Atlantic Counterinsurgency Isn’t the Answer Be wary of those who seek to apply the lessons of our campaigns abroad to our political challenges at home. February 5, 2021 Samuel Corum / Getty Okay, let’s put an end to this silliness before it gets out of hand: We do not need a counterinsurgency strategy to defeat right-wing extremism in the United States of America. Say it with me once more, for the people in the back: We do not need a counterinsurgency strategy to defeat right-wing extremism in the United States of America. Not only that, but we shouldn’t listen to those who seek to...

The Atlantic A bioethics expert on the moral questions facing our vaccine rollouts. January 24, 2021 Ruth Faden, an expert in biomedical ethics with Johns Hopkins University, has helped vaccine drives answer some tough questions: Who should be ahead of whom? Do we prioritize speed or equity? And once people are inoculated, should they get “vaccine passports” allowing freer movement? She joins James Hamblin and guest host Maeve Higgins on the podcast Social Distance to assess how we’ve done so far—and what we could expect next. Listen to their conversation here: Subscribe to Social D...

The Atlantic What I Saw at the White House on Trump’s Last Day The handover of power was a solemn affair. There was no mistaking the new administration for the old one. Anna Moneymaker / New York Times / Redux At dawn this morning, workers loaded couches and tables into a moving truck parked outside the West Wing. Men wearing white coveralls and carrying roller brushes and paint cans walked across the north driveway. Inside the White House, pictures of the 45th president had been removed from the walls. Only the hooks remained, ready for a new set of portraits of the 46th.