Joe Pinsker
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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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Alvaro Dominguez Kill the 5-Day Workweek
Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic How to Stop Living in ‘Infinite Browsing Mode’
The pleasures of commitment are deeper and more satisfying than keeping your options open, the writer and civic advocate Pete Davis argues in his new book.
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Frederic Stevens / Getty / Katie Martin / … The Gates Divorce Is About More Than a Marriage
When the richest of the rich split up, the usual dilemmas are mixed in with the fate of enormous charitable efforts and billion-dollar stock holdings.
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Andrew Testa / The New York Times / … 2 Competing Impulses Will Drive Post-pandemic Social Life
Some people will want to go out as often as they can. Others won’t be able to forget how nice it is to sit at home on the couch.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Modern Communication’s Big Open Secret
The assumption that we are the sole authors of our texts and emails is a collective fiction—but a useful one.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Trump’s Presidency Is Over. So Are Many Relationships.
Joe Biden wants the country to heal from its political divisions. But some people say they aren’t ready to reconnect with their estranged friends and family members.
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Paul Popper / Popperfoto / Getty How to End a Conversation Without Making Up an Excuse
A certain notion of politeness requires pretending the ideal interaction would go on forever. That’s ridiculous.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic A Year at Home Showed People New Sides of Their Loved Ones
The pandemic made our worlds smaller, and as a result many came to know the people they live with more deeply.
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ClassicStock / Getty There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less Praise
When Michaeleen Doucleff met parents from around the world, she encountered millennia-old methods of raising good kids that made American parenting seem bizarre and ineffective.
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Chang W. Lee / The New York Times … The Most Likely Timeline for Life to Return to Normal
An uncertain spring, an amazing summer, a cautious fall and winter, and then, finally, relief.
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Kate Dehler Welcome to the Post-pandemic Dream Home
Work “nooks,” sanitizer-stocked mudrooms, and other new features might soon appear in American houses—for those who can afford them.
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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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