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Dean Fosdick / AP The Art of Paying Attention
Distractions can be dangerous, but attention is also a beautiful act in and of itself.
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Photo-illustration by the McQuades A New Way to Unstick Your Mind
A conversation with Hanna Rosin about road-testing ideas on the new Radio Atlantic podcast
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Brandon Bell / Getty A Grim American Anniversary
One year after Uvalde, America’s morbid mass-shooting tradition carries on.
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The Atlantic Graduation Wisdom That Never Gets Old
Atlantic writers offer advice for managing uncertainty at any age.
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Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency via Getty Hiding Behind the AI Apocalypse
A conversation with Damon Beres about what regulating this technology would actually look like
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Jeff J Mitchell / Getty What Trump’s Primary Opponents Are Scared to Discuss
A check-in with David Frum on how the E. Jean Carroll verdict could affect voters
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Photo by Onnes / Getty The Everyday Wonders of City Life
How residents experience them—and how it feels when they are taken away
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty The Debt Ceiling Wasn’t Always So Politicized
A guide to the current crisis and how we got here
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Benjamin Vander Steen / Flickr What Thinking About Death Does for the Living
An Atlantic reading list about an existential question
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The Good Brigade / Getty How Online Shopping Lost Touch With Reality
Consumers might think they have more control than ever, but they’re really just fumbling in the dark.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic Why Adolescence Feels So Intense
Coming of age is a time of excitement, indignity, and lots of feelings.
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Norman Posselt / fStop / Getty America’s Intimacy Problem
People seem to be losing trust in one another.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Social Power of Board Games
They make bonding with new people really easy. But what if you hate playing them?
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Christopher Anderson / Magnum The End of an Internet Era
Life online is losing chaos, unpredictability, and delight—all of the things that made it fun.
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Kenji Toma / Trunk Archive Why Is Ice Cream So Easy to Love?
In America, the frozen treat has become associated with comfort and escape.
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Michael Swensen / Getty The New Lines of the Gun-Reform Battle
The American public supports some stricter gun measures. Will the country ever enact them?
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Abortion Opponents’ Next Push
A series of recent legal battles has been about abortion pills—but also about the anti-abortion movement’s broader post-Roe strategy.
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Illustration by Katie Martin / The Atlantic. Sources; … How Trends Are Made
Aesthetics alone aren’t enough, our writer explains.
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Petrovich Nataliya / Shutterstock The Power of Low-Stakes Humor
The internet might have destroyed April Fools’ Day, but we can still have fun the rest of the year.
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Greg Wood / AFP / Getty The Emotional Range of Tattoos
They can be thrilling and reassuring all at once.
