Joe Pinsker
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Julie Blackmon The Myth That Gets Men Out of Doing Chores
They’re just as good at recognizing messes as women—they just don’t feel the same pressure to clean them up.
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Alex Merto Why Your To-Do List Never Ends
For many Americans, there’s more to do, and less mental bandwidth with which to do it.
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Michael Dantas / AFP / Getty 4 Numbers That Make the Pandemic’s Massive Death Toll Sink In
It’s difficult to fully comprehend the magnitude of 350,000 deaths. Other metrics can be more illuminating.
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Yen Duong The Year We Lost
When we look back on 2020, will we see past all the things that didn’t happen?
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Sean Gallup / Getty Here Comes the COVID-19 Baby Bust
The U.S. could have hundreds of thousands of fewer births next year than it would have in the absence of a pandemic.
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Alia Wilhelm It’s Not Stealing. It’s Acquiring.
Inside the heads of people who borrow things from friends and never return them
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Ron Galella / Getty Is It Possible to Replace Alex Trebek?
The legendary game-show host had a distinctive ability to toggle between gravitas, gentleness, and theatricality.
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Getty / The Atlantic It’s Been 1,000 Years Since 2016
Like some stressful quadrennial birthday, elections prompt us to think about where we’ve been and where we’re headed, both personally and as a country.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Science of Changing a Loved One’s Vote
The odds of altering the outcome of the election: close to zero. The odds of altering your relationship with your family: much higher.
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Getty / The Atlantic Communication Experts’ Advice for Handling Trump’s Interruptions
There’s likely little Joe Biden can do to stop his opponent’s interjections during tonight’s debate, but that doesn’t mean he can’t still respond to them strategically.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Is There a Safe Way to Be Home for the Holidays?
Throughout the pandemic, Americans have been tempted to violate public-health experts’ recommendations. The winter holidays might be the strongest temptation yet.
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Getty / The Atlantic Don’t Expect Trump’s Diagnosis to Change the Minds of Pandemic Skeptics
Experts say the president’s illness is unlikely to sway those who think COVID-19 is no big deal.
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Getty / The Atlantic Therapists Break Down the Debate’s Toxic Communication Patterns
Instead of a dignified discussion of important issues, the country was subjected to what felt like a toxic, drawn-out family dispute gone off the rails.
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David Hume Kennerly / Getty RBG’s Fingerprints Are All Over Your Everyday Life
She expanded the possibilities of family life and work—for women and for men.
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IvanC7 / Shutterstock / The Atlantic How Boomer Parenting Fueled Millennial Burnout
Anne Helen Petersen, the author of the new book Can’t Even, traces some of a generation’s malaise back to its upbringing.
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GUEORGUI PINKHASSOV / MAGNUM There Won’t Be a Clear End to the Pandemic
The collective sense of closure we’re all longing for may never arrive. Instead, brace for a slow fade into a new normal.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Pandemic Has Created a Class of Super-Savers
“We’re just rife with cash and it has led to a decent amount of guilt.”
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Pat Greenhouse / The Boston Globe / Getty The Pandemic Recession Is Approaching a Dire Turning Point
Without an extra $600 a week in unemployment assistance, many Americans are on the brink of not being able to pay rent or put food on the table.
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Yawar Nazir / Ming Yeung / Getty How the Pandemic Has Changed Us Already
The Great Depression permanently altered many people’s behavior. Could COVID-19 do the same?
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Bruno Barbey / Magnum The Winter Will Be Worse
When socializing outside gets harder in much of the U.S., daily life will get more dismal, and the virus might spread even further.
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