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Getty; The Atlantic The Problem With Wills
A striking proportion of Americans doesn’t have one. Nontraditional families are left uniquely vulnerable.
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Getty / The Atlantic The New Personal Website Isn’t Really a Website at All
Instagram and TikTok stars are helping transform simplistic “link-in-bio” pages into sprawling, interactive displays.
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LMPC / Getty; The Atlantic A Patriarchal Tradition That Just Won’t Budge
Straight, married couples in the U.S. still almost always give kids the father’s last name. Why?
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Getty; The Atlantic Millennials, What Will It Take for You to Buy Life Insurance?
Start-ups are going to ridiculous lengths to rebrand an industry in desperate need of some younger customers.
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Adam Maida Where Gender-Neutral Pronouns Come From
People tend to think of they, Mx., and hir as relatively recent inventions. But English speakers have been looking for better ways to talk about gender for a very long time.
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Steve Savage The King of AIDS Treatments Is Turning to COVID-19
There are few drugs proven to help people infected with the coronavirus, and it’s giving John James déjà vu.
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Simon Montag The Gift-Card Budget
Strapped for cash, state governments are plugging holes using unspent gift cards. Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.
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Pat Sullivan / AP No One Really Knows What to Do With All of America’s Unclaimed Corpses
States are going to weird lengths to deal with overcrowded morgues.
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