The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo

What does society owe immunocompromised people? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The Virus and the Vaccine (2000)

A simian virus known as SV40 has been associated with a number of rare human cancers. This same virus contaminated the polio vaccine administered to 98 million Americans from 1955 to 1963. Federal health officials see little reason for concern. A growing cadre of medical research … | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The Paradox of Slow Love

No one formula can guarantee love and lasting commitment, but “taking it slow” may be a losing strategy. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Why Does the US make it so hard to be a doctor?

America needs medical abundance. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

What American Mental Health Care Is Missing

Scientific research alone cannot address the challenges that Americans with mental illness face. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Why the West’s Diplomacy with Russia Keeps Failing

American and European leaders’ profound lack of imagination has brought the world to the brink of war. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Why the West's Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing

A profound failure of the Western imagination has brought Europe to the brink of war. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Let Your Kids Be Bad at Things

When parenting becomes about perfectionism, you’re missing the point. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The Great Shoplifting Freak-Out

Why is it so hard to figure out if America’s enormous surge in theft is real? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

When the Trucker Convoy Came for Me

As a writer, I’ve explored political rage at a distance. The anti-vax trucker convoy brought it up close and personal. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem

Most public activity on the platform comes from a tiny, hyperactive group of abusive users. Facebook relies on them to decide what everyone sees. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem

Most public activity on the platform comes from a tiny, hyperactive group of abusive users. Facebook relies on them to decide what everyone sees. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

My Bad Personality and Me

How I made myself less unpleasant | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

It's Your Friends Who Break Your Heart

The older we get, the more we need our friends—and the harder it is to keep them | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

How to Want Less

The secret to satisfaction has nothing to do with achievement, money, or stuff. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The Paradox of Sour Food. “It’s a weird sense to need.”

“It’s a weird sense to need.” | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

College Sports Are Affirmative Action for Rich White Students

Athletes are often held to a lower standard by admissions officers, and in the Ivy League, 65 percent of players are white. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Denmark decided that Covid isn't a threat

The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Can China Ever Reopen?

Xi Jinping’s first and only priority is political security, making a quick reopening almost untenable. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Celebrities and NFTs Are a Match Made in Hell

Somehow, star endorsements have found a new low. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Read the Books That Schools Want to Ban

These 14 titles have been under attack for doing exactly what literature is supposed to do. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

People Hate the Future of the Internet

Web3 is making some people very rich. It’s making other people very angry. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Beware the FOMO Bullies of Technology

Are we living through a replay of the ’90s, when most people just didn’t get “this internet thing”? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now

The internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

What Changed for Little Kids’ Vaccines?

Authorizing two shots for little kids right now could be a double gamble. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Our Solar System in True Color Is Something Else

Venus is white. So is the sun. They’re beautiful anyway. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The Betrayal

America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added moral injury to military failure. But a group of soldiers, veterans, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Ro Khanna: The Digital Revolution Can’t Be Confined to Silicon Valley

Decentralizing tech can allow more Americans to stay rooted in their communities—whether that’s in Silicon Valley or rural Kentucky. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Kaitlin Tiffany on the history and cultural impact of Tumblr

The soft, sad freaks on an unprofitable website claimed victory in the battle for the internet’s soul and defined the worldview of a generation. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Google Maps Nearly Starts a War

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@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Hospitals are already using race to ration care

The cultural left’s worldview is beginning to distort health policy. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Chinese Architecture, Old and New

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@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The IRS Should Stop Using Facial Recognition

Taxpayers should be wary of the U.S. government for pushing ID.me’s face-based biometric technology on them. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

What If (Almost) Every Gene Affects (Almost) Everything?

Three Stanford scientists have proposed a provocative new way of thinking about genetic variants, and how they affect people’s bodies and health. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?

The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

First, You Decide That Kids Belong in School

What happened when my West Texas community—unlike many large blue cities—prioritized a normal education for children | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The case against masks at school

Districts should rethink imposing on millions of children an intervention that provides little discernible benefit. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Not Even Free Money Can Fix a Carbon Tax

A carbon dividend seemed like a great way to solve climate politics. But it might not work. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

A toast to all the rejects

What a shared rejection spreadsheet taught me about success | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

We booped the Sun

For such a familiar celestial body, the sun is still very mysterious—but we’re getting closer to it than ever before. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

How Bad Are Plastics, Really?

Plastic production just keeps expanding, and now is becoming a driving cause of climate change. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Hobbies Infiltrated American Life

America has a love affair with “productive leisure.” | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Disaster Coming to the Great Plains Acute scarcity drives the search for water

Acute scarcity drives the search for water underground. But the West’s major aquifers are in trouble, too. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

The absurdity of renting a car will no longer be tolerated

Supply is low, demand is high—but that alone cannot explain the weird indignity of renting a vehicle. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk

“You just put a bottle of unsweetened Everclear on the cage and they love it.” | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

A New Origin Story for Dogs (2016)

The first domesticated animals may have been tamed twice. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Omicron Is the Beginning of the End

No matter the severity of the variant, the appetite for shutdowns or other large-scale social interventions simply isn’t there. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 2 years ago

Procrastinate This, Not That

Putting things off can improve your performance—if you do it right. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago