How cavalier
people are—with language
and with silence.Any ghost will
tell you—the last thing
we meanto do
is leave you.This poem appears in the October 2021 print edition. When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The Atlantic.
It’s more complicated than it seems.
A popular saying in football is that a player’s best ability is his availability. The idea explains why injured players in professional football are often cut, released, or relegated to lesser roles. It’s why an NFL player’s history of missing games can keep him from getting a big contract. It’s why players who face criminal allegations are handled according to whether they’ll miss time on the field.
Parenting advice on sperm donors, medical mysteries, and sexual assault.
Dan Darling was the consummate evangelical insider, until he wasn’t. Over the years, he has run the communications shop for several big-name Christian organizations, most recently the National Religious Broadcasters, or NRB, an association of more than 1,000 Christian radio hosts, television producers, and other media professionals. But at the end of August, he was fired.
The lefty case against Jerome Powell almost makes sense. Almost.
Just asking questions, never learning a single thing.
I fear he doesn’t understand what debt really means.
The booster plan has caused turmoil within FDA and among public health experts.
Top Republicans in other states say they are examining how the Texas law’s unique “private right of action” enforcement structure could be used for similar abortion bans.
Major pharmaceutical companies are citing their role in fighting the pandemic as they lobby against Democrats’ bid to overhaul prescription drug policy.
Eighteen months into the pandemic, Louisiana and more than 20 other states are still trying to fill key gaps in data while fighting the most aggressive version yet of the virus.
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock sent a memo Tuesday evening to vaccine regulators, reiterating her support as frustration over the process spreads within their ranks.
Parenting advice on upsetting retreats, unfair fundraisers, and a homophobic household.
Last year, I decided to try Utah again. Then came last week.
I’ve long relied on the hurricane evacuation adage “Cat 1 or 2, see it through; Cat 3 or more, hit the door.
Do guys really do this?
Biden laid blame for the sluggish growth of U.S. jobs on the “impact of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus.
Central bank chief seeks to avoid market turmoil as president weighs tapping him for a second term.
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, we look at the experiences of meatpacking workers during the pandemic and beyond. Dulce Castañeda, a founding member of Children of Smithfield, a Nebraska-based grassroots advocacy group led by the children and family members of meatpacking workers, says conditions in the meatpacking plants during the pandemic remained as usual.
As the United States ends a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA’s drone program offers an apology to the people of Afghanistan “from not only myself, but from the rest of our society as Americans.
Ahead of Labor Day, we speak with journalist and sociologist Eyal Press about his new book, “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America.” Press profiles workers like prison guards and oil workers — people who make their livelihoods by doing “unethical activity that society depends on and tacitly condones but doesn’t want to hear too much” about, he says.
As the death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in the northeastern United States climbs to 46, President Biden is visiting New Orleans, which is under curfew enforced by police and the National Guard as most of the city remains in the dark amid sweltering temperatures.
“I’m very optimistic we’re going to be back,” Trump told members of his new National Faith Advisory Board as he apparently prepares to make another run.
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