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Universal History Archive / Getty What Carl Sagan Understood About Human Cruelty
An infrequent astronomical event offers a new way of processing the unthinkable.
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Photo-Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bob Sacha / … The Dilemmas of Urban Life
“Pitting cities and suburbia against each other is a false choice,” one reader opines.
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Bob Sacha / Getty Are Suburbs the Future?
The dream of the city could be on its way out.
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Ernst Haas / Getty 12 Readers on the Question of Cars
“Once a convenience, cars are now an expensive necessity,” one writes.
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The Atlantic; Aufwind-Luftbilder / VISUM / Redux The Freedom and Frustration of Cars
Readers share mixed opinions on life behind the wheel.
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Tayfun Coskun / Getty What Stanford Law’s DEI Dean Got Wrong
Tirien Steinbach’s approach to a recent free-speech conflict on campus disempowered students.
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Eve Arnold / Magnum America’s in the Midst of a Socioeconomic Shift
What we need next is more new construction.
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The Atlantic. Source: Gueorgui Pinkhassov / Magnum 15 Readers on Their Religious Journeys
More replies on faith, community, and finding one’s home
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Greg Pease / Getty The States That Reopened First
Plus: How Fox News misled its viewers
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The Atlantic. Source: Auseef Mustafa / AFP / … 18 Readers on Their Relationship With Religion
An outpouring of replies on faith, community, and finding one’s home
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TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP / Getty Modern Spirituality Is a Consumer’s Choice Now
The decline of organized religion has privatized people’s search for meaning.
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The Atlantic. Source: Valerie Winckler / Gamma-Rapho / … Adults Are Letting Teen Girls Down
Readers weigh in on the causes, and potential solutions, for teen girls’ worsening mental health.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Airtight Case Against Internet Pile-Ons
Whether or not they’re famous (or blameless), people deserve accurate depictions in the media.
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The Atlantic; Getty How 12 Readers Prepare for Natural Disasters
“People usually don’t recover from disasters. If they’re lucky, they survive them.”
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Getty The Challenges of Disaster Planning
We want to hear your thoughts on living under the threat of natural disaster.
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The Atlantic / Getty The Many Ripple Effects of the Weight-Loss Industry
“Body shape is a metric that people use to judge character.”
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Ron Galella / Getty What Is Up With the Weight-Loss Industry?
Plus: A case against special police units
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The Atlantic; Ismail Ferdous / Agence VU / … What Makes a Good Cop
“Police should not police themselves.”
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Ismail Ferdous / Agence VU / Redux Public Outrage Hasn’t Improved Policing
Plus: A theory of tech giants
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The Atlantic; Peter Finch / Getty How to Make Diversity Trainings Better
“Far too often we trust external experts to bring solutions.”
