Stop wielding your values as a weapon and start offering them as a gift. | Continue reading
I feel a rush of longing when I see a cute baby, but I can’t tell if I’m ready to have one of my own. | Continue reading
Robert Fruchtman has documented dozens of community meetings, making it easier for activists, politicians, and journalists to notice San Francisco’s housing crisis and get involved. | Continue reading
The party doesn’t even seem to realize that it’s blowing a once-in-a-decade chance to pass meaningful climate legislation. | Continue reading
Some people believe that the company’s scandals are reason enough to quit the platform. Others have found one compelling reason to stay. | Continue reading
To understand how climate change is altering our planet, it helps to know a little Earth science. | Continue reading
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If the conservative justice’s draft opinion is adopted by the Court, key advances of the past hundred years could be rolled back. | Continue reading
If you are an American with a young daughter, she will grow up in a world without the right to choose when and where she gives birth, and in which nothing restrains a state from declaring her womb its property, with all the invasive authorities that implies.(theatlantic.com) | Continue reading
When I woke up on the morning of January 20, 2017, Barack Obama was still president and I was still pregnant. When I woke up again a few hours later, he wasn't and I wasn't. I didn't have much time to spare when I scheduled the procedure to terminate my pregnancy.(theatlantic.com … | Continue reading
For a hint at how Twitter will fare under its new owner, consider how he operates his other enterprises. | Continue reading
Business moguls tend to be big on protecting speech, right until it hurts their bottom line. | Continue reading
One family’s experience of Vladimir Putin’s invasion offers a path to the end of the war. | Continue reading
It turns out there are few real differences between books by authors with and without creative-writing degrees. | Continue reading
Microphones have captured the whirring and pings of a hard-working rover—and the rush of a gentle Martian wind. | Continue reading
The two paths to avoid the worst of climate change would still dramatically change the world as we know it. | Continue reading
Social-media companies deny quietly suppressing content, but many users still believe it happens. The result is a lack of trust in the internet. | Continue reading
A new generation of fitness instructors teaches simple skills that make a difference, writes @amandamull. Why is beginner-level exercise treated like a niche? | Continue reading
Conservatives on Twitter have greeted Elon Musk as a liberator. The mega-billionaire is in the process of purchasing the social-media platform and reorienting it toward what he calls "free speech." The conservative columnist Ben Shapiro celebrated the news of the new free-speech … | Continue reading
Let's assume Donald Trump runs again for president in 2024. Yes, I know, caveats, caveats. Republicans say it's too early to discuss '24. A lot can change between now and then. Maybe Trump won't actually run. Maybe he's just teasing the possibility to milk the attention. Apparent … | Continue reading
The rise of remote work has snipped the tether between home and office, allowing many white-collar workers to move out of high-cost cities. | Continue reading
What do the descendants of dethroned monarchs have to offer the continent in the 21st century? | Continue reading
Solving the housing crisis means organizing everyone who suffers when communities block the construction of new apartments. | Continue reading
One move down, 1,298,074,214,633,706,907,132,624,082,305,022 to go. | Continue reading
What experiences in infancy will enable children to thrive emotionally and to come to feel that the world of people is a positive place? Attachment theorists believe they have some answers. | Continue reading
He is comedy royalty. But the world has changed since he was at the height of his powers. | Continue reading
Angry neighborhood associations have the power to halt the construction of vital infrastructure. It doesn’t have to be this way. | Continue reading
The word once defined a category of behaviors. Now it expresses an emotion. | Continue reading
“None of us really understands what’s going on with all these numbers.” | Continue reading
The mask mandate on airplanes isn’t the only outmoded precaution that Americans should abandon. | Continue reading
Kyiv is halfway normal now. Burnt-out Russian tanks have been removed from the roads leading into the city, traffic lights work, the subway runs, oranges are available for purchase. A cheerful balalaika orchestra was performing for returning refugees at the main rail station earl … | Continue reading
Four forces are propelling the rising rates of depression among young people. | Continue reading
Perfectionism can make you miserable. Here’s how you can muster the courage to mess up. | Continue reading
The United States and its allies can tip the balance between a costly success and a calamity. | Continue reading
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Two economists estimate how much people would pay to learn what their co-workers earn without having to inquire themselves. | Continue reading
The existence of love, trust, respect, and safety in a relationship is often dependent on moments you might write off as petty disagreements. | Continue reading
It’s not just a phase. | Continue reading
A new book argues that the conflict was a battle for empire. | Continue reading
Folks in San Diego witnessed either the worst Fourth of July fireworks celebration — or the absolute best — when a technical malfunction caused all of their pyrotechnics to go off at the same time. | Continue reading
The eviction tsunami never happened. Neither did the “she-cession.” Here are four theories for the failed economic forecasting of the pandemic era. | Continue reading
Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg in conversation with Barack Obama about the social web, Ukraine, and the future of democracy | Continue reading
Who gets to keep a secret in a hyperconnected world? | Continue reading
In the time since the publication of Kurt Vonnegut’s seminal novel, the work has never gotten old and it’s never waned in energy. | Continue reading
For centuries, artificial protective coatings have preserved and protected foods—and made them look more appealing. | Continue reading
My policy was to work for the best, while expanding NATO to prepare for the worst. | Continue reading
The city deftly connected China and the world for decades. That historic balancing act won’t be revived. | Continue reading
An extended conversation with the legendary linguist | Continue reading