America Has Pandemic Senioritis – The Atlantic
In the meantime, I have done virtually nothing that I’m supposed to be doing in order to get myself through this pandemic, which is definitely not over yet. I have…
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‘Parachute Science’ Doesn’t Work in a Pandemic
In the rain forests of Borneo, Sahril Ramadani wakes before sunrise to the high-pitched shrieks of gibbons. Fumbling in the dark, he packs up his essentials for the day: hand…
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Canada’s Vaccine-Rollout Problems – The Atlantic
“I think we have nothing to be proud of on this, that’s for sure,” André Picard, a health expert in Canada and a longtime columnist for The Globe and Mail,…
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How Will We Remember COVID-19?
Illustrations by Chloe Scheffe This article was published online on April 6, 2021. My plague year began on the evening of Wednesday, March 11, 2020, when I was compelled to…
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Vaccinating Kids Is Urgent – The Atlantic
They are also clear that the social isolation of the past year has been damaging to kids. The sooner children can be back in school and socializing without restriction or…
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Beaked Whales Are Holding Their Breath Right Now
The marine biologist Jay Barlow likes to say that he went looking for the last of the Ice Age mastodons and instead bumped into a unicorn. It’s a land-based metaphor…
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Of Miracles and Multiverses – The Atlantic
Photographs by Balarama Heller On the morning of October 13, 1917, a year from the end of World War I, a crowd of tens of thousands gathered in the town…
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Our Year on Zoom: A Photo Essay
Photographs by Thomas Dworzak Zoom, for most of us, arrived last year. And didn’t it feel right on time? Eerily on the button. As if the nine-foot locusts that run…
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Mummichogs Survived Decades of Industrial Pollution
Originating in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, just south of the Chesapeake Bay, the Elizabeth River is turbid and brackish, its banks redolent with the nose-wrinkling stench of rotting…
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526,000 Pandemic Anniversaries – The Atlantic
The pandemic will not have one anniversary; it will have millions of them, each commemorating its own private tragedy. They will come to us as the virus did, in waves,…
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