Kill the 5-Day Workweek
Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.
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The Real Problem With Globalization
International crises demand international solutions.
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I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth
A common ideology underlies the practices of many ultra-wealthy people: The government can’t be trusted with money.
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Janet Malcolm the Magician
The late author could be bracingly clear or confidingly sympathetic, but her most consistent modus operandi was to obscure and complicate.
The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
Kodak changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. But it struggled to reinvent itself for the digital age.
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Works That Chart New Queer Narratives
Stories on visibility, self-understanding, and the development of queerness as an identity: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Live EventThe Atlantic's Health Equity Summit
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I Know the Secret to the Quiet Mind. I Wish I’d Never Learned It.
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Kill the 5-Day Workweek
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Blue Animals Are Different from All the Rest
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Expect the Unexpected From the Delta Variant
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Iran Stops Pretending
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I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth
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The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
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Chris Paul Bears the Brunt of Pro Sports’ Vaccination Problem
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How America Fractured Into Four Parts
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TV Can’t Stop Thinking About the Female Gaze
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Listen to the Latest Episode: The Experiment
Stories From an Unfinished Country
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Prologue
The Story of an Unnatural Disaster
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Episode 122
Is It Over?
