Milk Chocolate Is Better Than Dark, the End (2016)

Let’s do this. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

We’re Heading Toward a American Climate Tragedy

If Democrats fail to pass a climate policy, they will all but guarantee that the world will warm a dangerous degree and that the U.S. will surrender its technological advantage to China. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

How to Care Less About Work

As we peer around the corner of the pandemic, let’s talk about what we want to do—and not do—with the rest of our lives. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The new variant seems to be our quickest one yet. That makes it harder to catch with the tests we have. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Trump's Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel

Worth at least a quarter billion dollars, the steel bollards are a relic of the Trump era. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

America Became an Economic Superpower

Adam Tooze's study of the two world wars traces a new history of the 20th century. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The CDC’s Flawed Case for Wearing Masks in School

The agency’s director has said, repeatedly, that schools without mask mandates have triple the risk of COVID outbreaks. That claim is based on very shaky science. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

China Hawks Don't Understand How Science Advances

The U.S. government’s attempt to keep China from stealing technology has degenerated into a squeeze on its own scientists. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron

Here’s how I thought through the decision. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Millipede Has 1,306 Legs–The Most on Earth

No known creature actually had 1,000 legs—until now. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Gen Z Is Done with the Pandemic

Though the specter of a new variant hangs over the holidays, young people have no plans to lock themselves down again. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

America Can't Beat Omicron One Booster at a Time

The new variant poses a far graver threat at the collective level than the individual one—the kind of test that the U.S. has repeatedly failed. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career

Humans may soon live to be 100, which likely means more years on the job. That could be a good thing, if we take the opportunity to redesign work. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

70th Anniversary of the First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Nuclear Test (2015)

On July 16, 1945, the United States Army detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Where I Live, No One Cares About Covid

Outside the world inhabited by the professional classes in a handful of major metropolitan areas, many Americans are leading their lives as if COVID is over. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining

In San Francisco and elsewhere in California, the red tape that prevented dining alfresco before the pandemic is starting to grow back. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

1953: The Year That Revolutionized Life, Death, and the Digital Bit (2012)

Three technological eras began in 1953: thermonuclear weapons, stored-program computers, and modern genetics. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Walking

Henry David Thoreau extols the virtues of immersing oneself in nature and laments the inevitable encroachment of private ownership upon the wilderness. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Astronomical Hijinks of the Shortest Day of the Year (2013)

The solstice isn't for more than a week, but the earliest sunset of the year is already upon us. How's that possible? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

On Conservatism

The rich philosophical tradition I fell in love with has been reduced to Fox News and voter suppression. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Are We Doomed?

To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Covid Has Broken the Economy

High inflation rates may well last for years, not months. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Pandemic of the Vaccinated Is Here

A coming winter surge and the spread of Omicron have made it clear that COVID is everyone’s problem. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Letters That Outgoing Presidents Wrote to Their Successors

Each one reminds us what a peaceful—and gracious—transfer of power looks like. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Our First Preview of How Vaccines Will Fare Against Omicron

The variant will change the risk landscape for the vaccinated. The question is, how much? | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

What’s Behind Global Vaccine Hesitancy

Countries with low vaccination rates are suffering from more than just inequity. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Trump’s GOP is preparing to subvert the next election

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Tech Moguls Are Looking for a New Playground

Jack Dorsey’s decision to leave Twitter, like Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot to the metaverse, shows us where the internet is heading. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

How Leisure Time Became Work

The rise of the attention economy has accelerated our habit of engaging with our hobbies in a data-driven way. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

No Old Maps Say 'Here Be Dragons'

But an ancient globe does. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

JWST has 344 single-point failures

Everything has to go right for the James Webb Space Telescope. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Why the Energy Transition Will Be So Complicated

The degree to which the world depends on oil and gas is not well understood. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

America is running out of new ideas

In film, science, and the economy, the U.S. has fallen out of love with the hard work of invention. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Old, Weird Tech: The Bat Bombs of World War II (2011)

The Marine Corps spent $2 million testing an idea cooked up by a Pennsylvania dentist: tiny bats to scatter bombs across Japan | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

What happens when you’re the investment? Social capital becomes economic capital

Social capital is becoming economic capital. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Russia Took Advantage While the West Slept

By failing to offer realistic alternatives, the U.S. and Europe have left another region to the tender mercies of a predatory power. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Covid Parenting Is Reaching a Breaking Point

An epidemiologist joins five Atlantic parents to discuss just how long their pandemic trade-offs can hold. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

‘Land Acknowledgments’ Are Just Moral Exhibitionism

These statements relieve the speaker and the audience of the responsibility to think about Indigenous peoples, at least until the next public event. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Benefits of Emotional Diversity

Becoming attuned to your more obscure emotions is good for you. So get over your stenahoria and embrace your amae. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Universities Try to Force a Consensus About Kyle Rittenhouse

Instead of using his acquittal to promote vigorous discussion, many administrators sent out statements decrying the verdict. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

America’s Gambling Addiction Is Metastasizing

When life feels this precarious, it’s only natural to roll the dice on just about everything. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The Deadly Myth That Human Error Causes Most Car Crashes

Every year thousands of Americans die on the roads. Individuals take the blame for systemic problems. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The solar system's “brines” are crucial to the search for extraterrestrial life

The solar system is full of brines, and they're crucial to the search for extraterrestrial life. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

How Lincoln Turned Regional Holidays Into National Celebrations

The president used Thanksgiving and Christmas to reunite a divided country. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

The End of Trust: Suspicion is undermining the American economy

Suspicion is undermining the American economy. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Why So Many Icelanders Still Believe in Invisible Elves

How the country’s history and geography created the perfect setting for magical creatures, whose perceived existence sparks environmental protests to this day. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Unboxing Elaborate Packages Became an American Pastime

American consumers can’t resist the lure of a well-designed container. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago

Ed Yong talks to health-care workers with long COVID

Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 3 years ago