Amal Ahmed
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The Family Weekly: How the American Dream Leads Straight to McMansion Hell
Plus: How to negotiate with your kids like a business professor, and the age of “sharenting” is coming to an end.
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Reuters / Lawrence Bryant The Family Weekly: Do All Newborns Really Look Like Their Dads?
Plus: Private-school parents gone wild, and how to talk to your married friends about being single
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Family Weekly: How the Spelling Bee Ended in an Eight-Way Tie
Plus: What to do when friends choose sides after a divorce, and kids who make ASMR videos online are toeing the line of YouTube’s policies.
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STOCKBYTE / GETTY The Family Weekly: Weekend Weddings Are Cliché. Do It on Tuesday Instead.
Plus: Sesame Street takes on cloudy days, and how to talk to your therapist about the secret you’re hiding from her.
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Subpoena-na-na-na
Hey, hey, hey, I won’t comply, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin wrote the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee about its subpoena for Trump’s tax records.
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The Family Weekly: Gay Rats (And Gay Rights)
Mr. Ratburn from Arthur gets married. Plus: A reality-TV contestant says he has 114 kids via sperm donations, and how long-distance relationships are thriving in the digital age.
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Caution Ahead
Kamala wants to avoid the drama-la, but other candidates are more willing to play the game. Plus: Moderate Democratic women of the House want you to notice them, too.
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(Reuters / Pool) The Family Weekly: A Historic Royal Baby Arriveth
Plus: Keeping a mother’s secret from her son, and are you ready for a relationship or afraid of commitment?
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AP / Charlie Riedel The Engineers’ Plan for Creating Border Security With Clean Energy
A proposal imagines how building solar panels and wind turbines along the U.S.-Mexico border could unite calls for a Green New Deal and a border wall.
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Shutterstock / Rawpixel The Family Weekly: Have Millennials Killed Infidelity?
Plus: Your baby’s first word doesn’t mean anything, and what to do if your boyfriend’s mother is a narcissist.
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(9dream Studio / Shutterstock) The Family Weekly: When Families Are Divided On Vaccinating Their Kids
Plus: The rare genetic condition that reshaped a mother’s dreams for her daughter, and segregation in gifted and talented education
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Chet Strange / Getty The Family Weekly: 20 Years After Columbine
Plus: Long-distance friendships, messy conversations about race with an interracial family, and how to raise a boy
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Courtest of Alana Semuels The Family Weekly: Is School Desegregation in Boston Still Possible?
Plus: Why friends are replacing priests at weddings, and touching people might be good for you
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Mira Jacob / Courtesy of Penguin Random House Illustrating the Messy Reality of Life as an Interracial Family
In her new graphic memoir, the author Mira Jacob documents conversations about love and race with multiple generations of her family.
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Kidsada Manchinda / Getty The Family Weekly: The Reasons for Declining Young-Adult Happiness
The ethics of the domestic-labor economy, a cross-border friendship, and Lori Gottlieb’s first patient
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Family Weekly: For Survivors of Mass Shootings, There’s No Straight Line to Recovery
Plus: Military families are struggling to make ends meet, and how much homework is too much?
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The Family Weekly: This Fertility Doctor Had a Secret. Then DNA Testing Came Along.
Why teenage boys have more free time than teenage girls, and how to talk (productively) to your family about politics when you disagree
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The Family Weekly: The College-Admissions Scandal Shows How Broken the System Is
Plus: Teen moms can affect their grandkids’ educational outcomes, and an IRL friendship formed in the “basement” of the internet
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Steven Senne / AP 9 Revealing Moments From the College-Admissions Indictment
Anecdotes from the Department of Justice’s indictment show the lengths that parents will go to buy their kids’ way into selective colleges.
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The Family Weekly: America’s Dark History of Native American Assimilation Schools
Plus: Twins who aren’t quite identical or fraternal, and the story of pen pals who have kept in touch in the digital age
