Jacob Stern
Can a Boxer Return to the Ring After Killing?
In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself.
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Getty; The Atlantic Whatever Happened to Toilet Plumes?
Beware the lidless toilet, even if one won’t give you COVID-19.
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Getty; The Atlantic May the Best Stove Win
Joe Biden isn’t banning gas stoves. They might be doomed anyway.
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Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty Suddenly, California Has Too Much Water
The state is being tossed between awful climate extremes.
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Getty; The Atlantic Maybe Don’t Unleash the Kraken
The ways we’re talking about the coronavirus are only getting weirder.
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Getty; The Atlantic Should Everyone Be Masking Again?
’Tis the season to cover your nose and mouth.
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The Atlantic Commercials Desperately Want You to Know They Know What They Are
What happens when advertising goes postmodern?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic Five Remarkable Chats That Will Help You Understand ChatGPT
The powerful new chatbot could make all sorts of trouble. But for now, it’s mostly a meme machine.
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Getty; The Atlantic The World Cup of Microsoft Excel
How can watching people fiddle with spreadsheets possibly be this fun?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty What Has Technology Done to Soccer?
Perfect referees are a soccer fan’s nightmare.
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Catherine Steenkeste / Getty The Sumptuous Minimalism of Lionel Messi
An ode to the greatest footballer ever to play the game
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Getty; The Atlantic PredictIt Already Won
America's favorite political-betting site is shutting down just as online gambling goes mainstream.
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TSPL / Camera Press / Redux What a ‘Tripledemic’ Means for Your Body
How many times will I get sick this winter?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Elijah Nouvelage / Getty; … Democrats Keep Falling for ‘Superstar Losers’
There’s never been a better time to lose an election.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Great Pandemic Hand-Washing Blooper
Should you wash your hands? Yes. Does it matter for respiratory viruses? Not as much as we once thought.
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MirageC / Getty The Masks We’ll Wear in the Next Pandemic
N95s are good. Some scientists want to do much better.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Effective Altruism’s Philosopher King Just Wants to Be Practical
“Somehow people feel like unless you’re doing the most extreme version of your views, then it’s not justified,” Will MacAskill says.
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Santiago Felipe / Getty; The Atlantic Fauci Addresses ‘The Pandemic Is Over’
President Biden’s controversial remarks, Fauci says, are a matter of “semantics.”
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Getty Hundreds of Americans Will Die From COVID Today
Is this what normal now looks like?
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Shutterstock There’s Nothing Quite Like the Wrath of Losing Your Fantasy League
You really don’t want to get “cheese-shoed.”
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Jim Wilson / The New York Times / … Are We Really Getting COVID Boosters Every Year Forever?
Prepare yourself for a lifetime of fall vaccine campaigns.
