Julie Beck
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Linda Kallerus / A24 In Middle School, ‘You’re Trying to Build a Parachute as You’re Falling’
The director Bo Burnham discusses his new movie, Eighth Grade, and how kids cobble together their identities, on the internet and off.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Hateful Messages Are an Occupational Hazard of Journalism
The stress of dealing with them wears on reporters, and it can be hard to know when they mean real danger.
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Frederick Florin / Getty Read This Article!!!
How many exclamation points do you need to seem genuinely enthusiastic?
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Pewara Nicropithak / ProStockStudio / Mitrija / Shutterstock ... The Terrible Stereotypes of Mother’s and Father’s Day Cards
Dads love beer. Moms love wine. And greeting-card companies love gendered tropes about parenting.
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Ted S. Warren / AP When Will People Get Better at Talking About Suicide?
As suicide rates rise, and stigma recedes, many discussions and portrayals are still clumsy or hurtful.
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Jon Nazca / Reuters People Are Changing the Way They Use Social Media
Posts are getting less personal—and privacy breaches like Cambridge Analytica could be partly to blame, an Atlantic survey finds
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Bitmoji / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What's Up With All These Viral Illusions?
From The Dress to tennis-ball colors to Yanny vs. Laurel, the internet keeps surfacing these places where our perceptions diverge.
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Elena Grama / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What Fresh Gel Is This?
The chemistry of gel manicures, chrome nails, and other nail-art trends
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Charles Paillasson / Getty Is It Better to Be Polite or Honest?
How centuries of advice columns have answered this and other questions.
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Aaron Richter / Emojipedia / Katie Martin / ... How to Fall in Love Over Text
To write her YA novel Emergency Contact, Mary H.K. Choi had to figure out how to render texts between teens without sounding corny.
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Drew Anthony Smith / Getty A Spree of Violence Can Shake a Community's Worldview
The “continuous trauma” of a drawn-out event like the Austin bombings is different than a one-time disaster.
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Shutterstock / Thanh Do / The Atlantic How Skin Care Became an At-Home Science Experiment
Faced with an overwhelming, opaque, and largely unregulated industry, people crowdsource tips and educate themselves about skin products.
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George Redon / Getty How Digital Maps Have Changed What It Means to Be Lost
Tales of people losing their way, before and after GPS
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Theo Wargo / Getty Is Dashboard Confessional Still Emo?
Two Atlantic writers discuss the new album, Crooked Shadows, and how the band’s sound has evolved since its eight-year hiatus.
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John Frederick Peto / Getty Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read
... and the movies and TV shows we watch
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Tim Mosenfelder / Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty ... When Pop Culture Sells Dangerous Myths About Romance
Entertainment glorifying or excusing predatory male behavior is everywhere—from songs about “blurred lines” to TV shows where rapists marry their victims.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Is Surprisingly Healthy
The president’s physical and mental health both appeared excellent in a recent exam, despite reportedly poor lifestyle habits.
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Maura Dwyer The New Age of Astrology
In a stressful, data-driven era, many young people find comfort and insight in the zodiac—even if they don’t exactly believe in it.
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Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock / The Atlantic How It Became Normal to Ignore Texts and Emails
Digital messages mimic the speed of real conversation, but often what people like best is the ability to put them off.
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Ian Ross Pettigrew / Getty / The Atlantic The Secret Life of 'Um'
How filler words and tiny pauses keep conversations from going off the rails
