Annie Lowrey
She is the author of Give People Money, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Prior to joining The Atlantic, she was a staff writer for The New York Times and New York magazine, as well as the Moneybox columnist for Slate. At The Atlantic, she writes about the economy and politics.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Before AI Takes Over, Make Plans to Give Everyone Money
The U.S. needs policies now to support workers made redundant by artificial intelligence.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Shutterstock. The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.
The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.
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Illustration By Erik Carter / The Atlantic. Source: … What Does Sentience Really Mean?
The fact that AI isn’t alive doesn’t mean it can’t be sentient, the sociologist Jacy Reese Anthis argues.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: … Paris Hilton Has a Lesson for Everybody
Her memoir is a manual on how to construct a self for public consumption.
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Mario Tama / Getty The Green Revolution Will Not Be Painless
A California oil refinery shut down during the pandemic. A year later, former employees were not all right.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. We’ve Been Measuring the Economy All Wrong
Questionable theoretical assumptions drive economic models to rubber-stamp disastrous policy changes.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty The Problem With the Retirement Age Is That It’s Too High
The richest society in human history should prioritize earlier eligibility for Social Security.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. AI Isn’t Omnipotent. It’s Janky.
Scary scenarios about malevolent machines are a distraction from problems that artificial intelligence is creating right now.
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Philip Pacheco / Bloomberg / Getty You Should Be Outraged About Silicon Valley Bank
Average Americans should let their displeasure be known.
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Illustration by Matt Chase / The Atlantic Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Is Now Everyone’s Problem
If it gets bailed out, will every bank be too big to fail?
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Illustration by Matt Chase / The Atlantic Low-Wage Jobs Are Becoming Middle-Class Jobs
Millions of low-income families are experiencing less financial stress and even a modicum of comfort.
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic The Reason the Recession Hasn’t Happened Yet
Despite soaring prices and interest rates, businesses and consumers have proved surprisingly resilient.
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Mimi Plumb / Robert Koch Gallery Everything Is About the Housing Market
High urban rents make life worse for everyone in countless ways.
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The Atlantic Why Are Layoffs Contagious?
Just because one company is firing employees by the thousands doesn’t mean that others should too.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Getty Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alleged Crimes Have Real Victims
What FTX customers lost may not impoverish them, but they were still cheated.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The Trillion-Dollar Coin Might Be the Least Bad Option
Why the legal scholar Rohan Grey thinks the U.S. Mint can defuse the debt-ceiling standoff
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Getty; The Atlantic How Did Tech Become America’s Most Troubled Industry?
The U.S. economy’s most dynamic sector is suddenly hemorrhaging jobs.
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Michael Brennan; Getty; The Atlantic How ChatGPT Will Destabilize White-Collar Work
No technology in modern memory has caused mass job loss among highly educated workers. Will generative AI be an exception?
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Getty The Misery of Being a Big-City Mayor
The best job in politics suddenly became a lot more difficult.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty; Shutterstock The Economy Is Improving in Three Major Ways
Happy trends are easy to overlook.
