Amanda Mull
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KEVIN TACHMAN / Trunk America Is About to Go Botox Wild
The post-pandemic beauty boom has arrived.
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Associated Press The Big, Stuck Boat Is Glorious
The Ever Given is very big and very stuck.
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Photograph by Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin What Your T-Shirt Says About You
How merch became a staple of the pandemic
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Harold M. Lambert / Getty There’s No Real Reason to Eat 3 Meals a Day
Your weird pandemic eating habits are probably fine.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Absurd Logic of Internet Recipe Hacks
Spaghetti-Os pie has warped my understanding of reality.
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Valerie Chiang The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship
There’s a reason you miss the people you didn’t even know that well.
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Hannah R. Anderson Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body
Quarantine is turning you into a stiff, hunched-over, itchy, sore, headachy husk.
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Caitlin Ochs / Reuters Have Yourself a Million Little Christmases
Christmas will look a little different this year, but everyone is still jonesing for a tree all their own.
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Giacomo Bagnara Why Is There Financing for Everything Now?
Are the new online services that allow you to buy jeans or shampoo in installments—interest-free—too good to be true?
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Giacomo Bagnara America’s Most Hated Garment
Not even a pandemic will silence the sweatpants scolds.
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Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe / Getty The Logic of Pandemic Restrictions Is Falling Apart
This is why you can eat in a restaurant but can’t have Thanksgiving.
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Asia Pietrzyk Christmas Dies Hard
The middle of a global pandemic might seem like a good time to cut back on holiday excess. But we live in America.
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Asia Pietrzyk Americans Got Tired of Looking Bad on Zoom
The pandemic’s at-home workers are discovering what internet influencers have long known: If you want to be taken seriously, get good lighting.
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Nanna Heitmann / Magnum The Difference Between Feeling Safe and Being Safe
The pandemic has broken Americans’ understanding of what to fear.
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Asia Pietrzyk Why Americans Have Turned to Nesting
If we’re going to be inside, it might as well be the inside we want.
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Paul Spella / Getty / The Atlantic Why Is Uber Begging Me to Vote?
Brands have found a new way to insert themselves into democracy.
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Getty / The Atlantic Why Everything Is Sold Out
The pandemic broke online shopping.
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Apu GOMES / AFP / Getty Why Americans Really Go to the Gym
People lost more than fitness when their favorite gyms shut down.
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Asia Pietrzyk Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Everyone I Know Keeps Breaking Things
I’m running out of glasses.
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