In this issue, Weekend Co-Editor Natalie Haddad writes about the artist Divya Mehra’s postcard series, The End of You, which dramatizes disparities among groups impacted by disasters. On one postcard, “a white man clutches a package of toilet paper in a convenience store while the Black female cashier observes the red mushroom cloud outside. The caption on the back, ‘This Is Important.’"

What is important now that a fractious new political landscape is emerging amid the pandemic’s ongoing devastation? Whose issues should be addressed? What will be the new economic priorities? Who gets the vaccine and who waits? As Mehra’s postcard suggests, what is important is both a social and moral question. It is a time to be vigilant lest we miss some mushroom cloud just because it isn’t rising over our own head.