Isabel Fattal
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Zhang Yi / VCG via Getty The Tech-Layoff ‘Contagion’
Tens of thousands of people have been laid off from large tech and media companies in the past 12 months. The reasons for this are not obvious.
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Natalie Andrewson Why Do We Sleep?
Sleep is both a need and a ritual.
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A24 The Oscars Contenders You Need to See
Shirley Li on what makes a good awards-show speech, the potential nominees to watch, and the movies that shouldn’t be overlooked
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Robert Alexander / Getty Is Political Violence on the Rise in America?
In a worrying sign, an election denier allegedly masterminded a series of shootings in New Mexico.
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Jasmin Merdan / Getty AI Is Not the New Crypto
The torrent of investor money that flowed into crypto is now hitting the AI scene. We’re already seeing the results.
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Illustration by Chloe Scheffe; Annie Spratt / Unsplash Why You Already Forgot That Book Plot
It’s not all the internet’s fault.
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Carl Court / Getty What Snow Days Mean to Adults
An ode to a natural gift that could melt away
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GraphicaArtis / Getty How to Build a Happier 2023
Rebecca Rashid, the producer of the Atlantic podcast How to Build a Happy Life, talks about the science of happiness.
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Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty A Year of Botched Executions
Elizabeth Bruenig reflects on writing about—and witnessing—capital punishment in America.
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Hugh Thompson / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Why Are We Awkward?
The science behind our most graceless moments
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L. Willinger / FPG / Hulton Archive / … How to Enjoy the Holidays Your Way
Faith Hill offers advice on creating new rituals, taking solitude breaks, and having actual fun.
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Mensent Photography / Getty The Wild Future of Artificial Intelligence
“It’s going to be fascinating to see how people incorporate this second brain into their job,” Derek Thompson says.
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Justin Fantl Why We Buy What We Do
How our brains get tricked into spending money
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Space Frontiers / Hulton Archive / Getty How We Could Discover Alien Life
Space reporter Marina Koren on NASA’s plans to travel to the moon, Mars, and Europa—and why it is now studying UAPs
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NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team How Vast Is the Cosmos, Really?
Life is an accident of space and time.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Thanksgiving After Fleeing the Taliban
The Afghan journalist Bushra Seddique on America, gratitude, and fried turkey
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Harold M. Lambert / Getty Why We Eat Together
Human food rituals are unique to our species.
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Robbie Jay Barratt / AMA / Getty Enjoying Soccer in Its Dark Age
Franklin Foer discusses what makes this year’s game so hard to watch—and what it says about the world in 2022.
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Athanasios Gioumpasis / Getty What Is Contrition Without Reparation?
Clint Smith discusses how Germany remembers the Holocaust—and why the process of atonement in America must look different.
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Tom Kelley / Getty Everything We Know About Dreams
And everything we don’t know
