Amanda Mull
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Peter Cade / Ascent Xmedia / Getty Canned Cocktails Give Millennials What They’ve Always Desired
The perfect drink for a medium-fancy generation
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Richard Newstead / Getty I Found the Key to the Kingdom of Sleep
It’s my foot.
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David Zalubowski / AP The Canine Craze for Cannabis
The CBD market for pets has exploded. But there’s no way to verify what your unsuspecting pup is ingesting.
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David McNew / Getty Elon Musk’s Next Wild Promise
If someone is going to revolutionize what it means to be human, do we want it to be a tech titan?
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Richard Drury / Getty The Rise of Coffee Shaming
Personal-finance gurus really hate coffee.
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Melissa Ross / Getty A Potential Hidden Factor in Why People Have So Much Trouble Losing Weight
A new study in mice points to how cell biology, not willpower, might be the root of yo-yo dieting.
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Thinkstock Images / Getty Why Americans Just Can’t Quit Their Microwaves
The quest for a quick dinner fix is eternal.
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Jo McRyan / Getty America Has Reached Peak Mask
In only a few years, the country’s beauty market has completely transformed.
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Klaus Vedfeldt / Getty How Americans Decided Dogs Can’t Eat Grains
A new warning about dog food underscores a problem with certain diets that goes beyond pets.
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John Minchillo / AP Suicide Isn’t Just a Personal Issue
The U.S. has a long history of misunderstanding mental-health struggles.
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Nora Carol Photography / Getty / The Atlantic Corporations’ Social Crusades Often Leave Out Workers
All the good PR in the world won’t raise wages or improve benefits for a company’s employees.
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Richard Drury / Getty Why Science Can Be So Indecisive About Nutrition
Years of conflicting studies about certain foods and diets tell us a lot about both our bodies and ourselves.
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Sean Gladwell / Getty A Rational Case for Following Your Emotions
Feelings aren’t as senseless as Americans have been led to believe.
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Elaine Thompson / AP The Two Technologies Changing the Future of Cancer Treatment
Researchers are eager to leave behind the brutal side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
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Ben Curtis / Associated press What It Means for Health Care to Be a Human Right
To protect a population’s health, governments might have to think beyond access to care.
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Xinzheng / Getty Human Lives Might Be Long Enough Already
Humanity has added three decades to people’s life spans in the past 150 years. Science is only beginning to catch up.
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Richard Drury / Getty The Tyranny of Workplace Food-Shamers
No one wants opinions on their lunch.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic / Justin Sullivan ... America’s Job Listings Have Gone Off the Deep End
What even is a data-obsessed, project-juggling digital ninja?
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Emilija Manevska / Getty The Future of Marketing Is Bespoke Everything
Personalized hair masks, facial serums, and vitamin cocktails are no longer reserved for the wealthy, thanks to technology—and data collection.
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Catrina Maxwell / Getty What Hollywood Boycotts Would Really Do to Georgia
Production companies’ threats to abandon the state in protest of a new abortion law put their own workers at risk.
