Joe Pinsker
Joe joined The Atlantic in 2013, and covered business and economics before helping launch The Atlantic’s Family section. He often writes about work, leisure, and human behavior.
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Felipe Estay Miller We Live By a Unit of Time That Doesn’t Make Sense
The seven-day week has survived for millennia, despite attempts to make it less chaotic.
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Bettman / Getty Parental Leave Is American Exceptionalism at Its Bleakest
The U.S. is the only wealthy country in the world that leaves new parents to fend for themselves.
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Adam Voorhes / Gallerystock The Strange Origins of American Birthday Celebrations
For most people, birthdays were once just another day. Industrialization changed that.
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Catherine Falls / Getty How Home Cooks Work Smarter, Not Harder
A new cookbook by the food journalist Priya Krishna and the chef David Chang emphasizes intuition and experimentation—and embraces the humble microwave.
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David Steets / laif / Redux The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people.
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The Atlantic The Staggering Number of Kids Who Have Lost a Parent to COVID-19
Even if children are less vulnerable to the coronavirus, they don’t suffer any less from the loss it causes.
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Matt Chase ‘Gen Z’ Only Exists in Your Head
The dividing lines between generations are a figment of our collective imagination.
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Popperfoto / Getty; H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock … The Gender Researcher’s Guide to an Equal Marriage
In their personal lives, sociologists attempt to ward off the same inequalities that they study at work.
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Resimercial: The Terrible Word for Today’s Trendy Office Aesthetic
Domestic touches have become popular in workplace design, further blurring the line between work and home.
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Klaus Vedfelt / Getty; Selvanegra / Getty; The … ‘What If the Thing You’re Waiting for Never Arrives?’
Waiting for Godot is a classic that feels like it was written for the Delta era of the pandemic.
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Matt Chase The Coming Wave of Evictions Is More Than a Housing Crisis
Evictions disrupt people’s health, relationships, work, and education. Now all those struggles will be exacerbated by the pandemic.
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Eli Reed / Magnum The Pandemic Is Making Dads Reevaluate Their Work-Life Balance
The past year and a half has been exhausting and stressful for parents. It also, unexpectedly, gave many fathers more of the family time they want.
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Getty; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Amazon Killed the Name Alexa
Parents are fleeing from a name that can be, at best, a nuisance and, at worst, associated with subservience.
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Ken Harding / BIPs / Getty The Best Time-Management Advice Is Depressing But Liberating
You can make time for things that matter, or you can make time for more email.
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The Atlantic Yes, the Pandemic Is Bad Again
Masks are reappearing and return-to-office plans have been postponed. Welcome to Delta’s whiplash.
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Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Do Olympic-Level Achievements Make People Happy?
The promise of success can propel us forward, but it comes with pitfalls that can undermine the satisfaction of actually succeeding.
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Shira Inbar What Will Happen to My Music Library When Spotify Dies?
If your entire collection is on a streaming service, good luck accessing it in 10 or 20 years.
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Minnesota Historical Society / Corbis / Getty The 2 Ways to Raise a Country’s Birth Rate
Give parents money and time.
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Getty; The Atlantic We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons From the World’s Happiest Countries
Hygge alone will not save us.
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Getty; The Atlantic What It Means That Kickstarter Is Trying a 4-Day Workweek
The experiment will be a valuable test of the theory that a shorter schedule can be good, or at least neutral, for businesses’ bottom line.
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