Courtesy of the Office of Tammy Duckworth Trump’s Disrespect Endangers the Troops When the commander in chief views service members with contempt, military readiness is bound to suffer.

Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty My New York City Kids Are Getting an Education in Failed Leadership As many New Yorkers have discovered since the start of the pandemic, Mayor de Blasio does not know how to lead the city.

Chris Lee / VII / Redux Where Joe Biden Is Underperforming Hillary Clinton The Democratic nominee has a Latino-voter problem.

BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL / AFP / Getty The U.S. Is on the Path to Destruction Climate change is killing Americans and destroying the country’s physical infrastructure.

Universal History Archive / Getty / The Atlantic The Weaponization of the Free-Exercise Clause The Supreme Court’s majority is transforming this onetime protection into a sword to strike down hard-fought advances in civil rights.

T.J. Kirkpatrick / The New York Times / ... Bill Barr’s Stinging Attack on Bill Barr It’s impossible to square the attorney general’s latest speech with his own record in office.

Rick Loomis / The New York Times / ... For the Big Ten, the Money Was Just Too Tempting College presidents have made peace with the risks of playing during the pandemic.

The New York Post / Getty / Katie ... The Other Police Violence Misconduct in interrogations and trials has sent hundreds of innocent Black men to prison.

Getty / The Atlantic An Experiment in Wisconsin Changed Voters’ Minds About Trump Changing voters’ minds is famously difficult, but a recent progressive effort found real success.

Win McNamee / Getty The Slow-Fingered President Donald Trump has been eager to tweet on many subjects—but notably reticent to emphasize public health.

Getty / The Atlantic How the Government Lost Its Mind Over the past 50 years, America has given up on the Enlightenment-era ideals of its Founders—and the country’s coronavirus disaster is the result.

Merrick Morton / HBO The Dark Truth About Perry Mason The HBO remake offers a grim depiction of Los Angeles—but it hardly keeps pace with the reality of police abuses in the era.

Eren Su Kibele Yarman Where Conspiracy Reigns Paranoia never stopped haunting Brazilian politics. Now, with Jair Bolsonaro in charge, it’s as powerful as ever—and its practitioners have learned a lot from the American internet.

Shutterstock / The Atlantic The SAT and the ACT Will Probably Survive the Pandemic—Thanks to Students Despite colleges dropping their testing requirements because of the coronavirus, students continue to sign up for the exams, believing that a score is the key to admission.

Tom Pennington / Getty The Reason Trump Isn’t Trying to Save the Economy He is stuck in a Pollyannaish fantasy of his own making.

Tia Dufour / White House / Anadolu Agency ... Iran and the Palestinians Lose Out in the Abraham Accords From authoritarian leaders to White House aides to the Palestinians, tallying the winners and losers

Mark Wilson / Getty A Paranoid Rant Says a Lot About Where Trumpism Is Headed A bizarre video posted by Michael Caputo may be a sign of things to come.

David McNew / Getty The Electoral College Is Also a Climate Problem If the West Coast fires were happening in swing states, presidential candidates wouldn't be able to ignore the issue.

The Atlantic I’m Still Saying Her Name Today I remember my friend Cynthia Wesley and the three other girls who died during the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing 57 years ago.