Americans are rightly anguished by gun violence and the question of what's motivating the young men who have committed a succession of horrific mass murders. We seem to be fumbling around for answers: Is it racism and radicalization, or untreated mental illness, or toxic video ga … | Continue reading
The endangered tuna was once reviled. How it became coveted--and why it's not so hard to swear it off. | Continue reading
Good marketing is supposed to generate demand. Bad firearms marketing has given us a national nightmare. | Continue reading
I understand why people hate all things Russian right now. But our literature did not put Putin in power or cause this war. | Continue reading
Six years before the first Apollo mission, two scientists from NASA argued for manned lunar exploration. | Continue reading
Jacob Bor has been thinking about a parallel universe. He envisions a world in which America has health on par with that of other wealthy nations, and is not an embarrassing outlier that, despite spending more on health care than any other country, has shorter life spans, higher … | Continue reading
Everything you've ever wanted to read, now in one convenient place. Search 165 years of American history in the digitized archives.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
Consider the cantaloupe. It's a decent melon. If you, like me, are the sort who constantly mixes them up, cantaloupes are the orange ones, and honeydews are green. If you, like me, are old enough to remember vacations, you might have had them along with their cousin, watermelon, … | Continue reading
Masking only at the start and end of every flight will do a lot to keep you safe. | Continue reading
A father dares to explore his rage. | Continue reading
When the speed of repercussions drops, society loses a key deterrent against unlawful behavior. | Continue reading
If gas prices are plummeting, why is inflation rising? If jobs are growing, why is GDP falling? If everybody’s on vacation, why are consumers miserable? | Continue reading
Universities should limit bureaucrats’ power to investigate students and professors for expressing their opinions. | Continue reading
Respiratory-virus season starts basically tomorrow, and our autumn vaccine strategy is shaky at best. | Continue reading
Deborah Birx’s "Silent Invasion" offers more detail and nuance than any other pandemic book. | Continue reading
The endless churn of variants may not stop anytime soon, unless we do something about it. | Continue reading
A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie. | Continue reading
In astronomy, the study of fast radio bursts can sometimes feel like a game of Clue. | Continue reading
Videochatting may be convenient, but it will never make us as happy as real human interaction. | Continue reading
A new study refutes the widespread idea that woodpeckers have shock-absorbing heads. | Continue reading
Musk cites three reasons for terminating his merger with Twitter. A new lawsuit points out why each of those reasons is extremely flimsy. | Continue reading
Americans are realizing the truth about White Claw: It’s bad! | Continue reading
This dispute is where all sanity and logic go to die. | Continue reading
The reporter Jonathan Katz explains how he wrestled with the sins of U.S. interventions abroad—and what to call them. | Continue reading
Picasso’s giant mural about the horrors of war left its first viewers cold. How did this painting become one of the most important in the history of art? | Continue reading
Companies need a new kind of middle manager: the synchronizer. | Continue reading
A growing number of Internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment | Continue reading
what we know and don't yet know about transmissibility, immune evasion, and long-term effects from the latest surge # | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images, set to be released in days, will signal the start of a new era in space science. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope’s debut is dazzling—and only the beginning. | Continue reading
Well, here we go again. Once more, the ever-changing coronavirus behind COVID-19 is assaulting the United States in a new guise-BA.5, an offshoot of the Omicron variant that devastated the most recent winter. The new variant is spreading quickly, likely because it snakes past som … | Continue reading
Everything you've ever wanted to read, now in one convenient place. Search 165 years of American history in the digitized archives. | Continue reading
165 years of journalism, now available online | Continue reading
Office workers work in offices, for better or for worse. | Continue reading
Adam Tooze, a historian of economic disaster, sees a combination of worrisome signs. | Continue reading
So why do we love one rodent and hate the other? | Continue reading
Doctors who have spent their careers promoting vasectomies are finding themselves thrust into the spotlight. | Continue reading
There are not enough humans to take care of all the animals. | Continue reading
American cities need to grow up. | Continue reading
I noticed the shoes first. That I was wearing them. Real shoes, the leather kind, with laces. After a year and a half, I was finally returning to the office, and that meant giving up the puffer slippers and slides that had sustained me for so long.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
The planet is looking extra sharp in photo dispatches from NASA’s newest rover. | Continue reading
A Senegalese architecture firm is championing a lower-tech material than concrete to help cities prepare for climate change. | Continue reading
Shared rides are back for the first time since March 2020. Did anyone notice? | Continue reading
Even as we watch the reservoirs and lakes of the West go dry, we keep watering our lawns, soaking our golf courses, and growing water-thirsty crops. As inflation mounts and the national debt balloons, progressive politicians vote for ever more spending.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
Mitt Romney: America Is In Denial. (I strongly disagree with some of the issues he raises, but the overall conclusion is correct. Without leadership, there's no way out.) | Continue reading
How to flaunt your modesty online, in three easy steps | Continue reading