Olga Khazan
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
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Bettmann / Getty / Katie Martin / The ... The Opposite of Socialized Medicine
A small, litigious group has spent decades trying to stop the government from telling doctors what to do. What happens if it succeeds?
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty Corporate Buzzwords Are How Workers Pretend to Be Adults
Circle back and kill me now.
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graphego / shutterstock / The Atlantic The Doctors Who Bill You While You’re Unconscious
A fifth of U.S. patients get surprise bills from surgery—even if their surgeon and hospital are in-network.
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YINJIA PAN / Getty The Ominous Rise of Toddler Milk
Baby-formula sales are slumping, so the companies that make it have turned to supplements for 3-year-olds.
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Shutterstock / Getty / Paul Spella / The ... America’s Most Powerful Medical-Debt Collector
Treatment at a military hospital can leave you tens of thousands of dollars in debt—and hounded by the federal government.
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Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Warren’s Attempt to Turn Her Greatest Weakness Into a Strength
In last night’s Democratic debate, the senator tried to sell the idea that a health-care plan’s cost is a mark of its ambition.
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Mike Blake / Reuters America’s Favorite Poison
Whatever happened to the anti-alcohol movement?
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Nikki Kahn / The Washington Post via Getty The High Cost of Having a Baby in America
The average delivery now costs more than $4,500—even with insurance.
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Spencer Platt / Getty The True Cause of the Opioid Epidemic
New research supports the idea that economic distress led to an increase in opioid abuse. But some say the origins of the epidemic are far more complicated.
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Sir Edward John Poynter / Fine Art Photographic ... How to Flake Gracefully
An introvert’s guide to canceling without losing your friends
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Getty Carry Yourself With the Confidence of a Male Scientist
Male researchers are more likely than women to use novel and other flattering terms to promote their studies.
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Elnur / Maksim Shmeljov / Shutterstock / The ... Is It Weird to Wear Leggings at Work?
Women put up with a lot at the office. At least grant us elastic waistbands.
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Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg / Getty Chronic Pain Is an Impossible Problem
A “safe” alternative to opioid painkillers turns out to be not so safe.
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Joseph Ax / Reuters The Stunning Rise of Single-Payer Health Care
How a socialist-seeming health-care policy became a rallying cry in the Democratic mainstream
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Three Personalities of America
People in different regions of the U.S. have measurably different psychological profiles.
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Danish Ismail / Reuters What Your Facebook Posts Say About Your Mental Health
Psychologists are discovering just how much information about our inner states can be gleaned from social media.
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Dani Cardona / Reuters Why Your Nemesis Psychs You Out
Sometimes people on the rise only inspire you to do worse.
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AFP Contributor / Getty The Therapeutic Potential of Stanning
“Superhero therapy” encourages people to think like their favorite movie characters. It seems to work.
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GBALLGIGGSPHOTO / Shutterstock A Strange New Culprit Behind Eating Disorders
Common infections such as strep throat might have a mysterious link to anorexia and bulimia.
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John Minchillo / AP Beto’s Marijuana Moment
The Democratic presidential candidate promoted a substitute for opioids that might be more dream than reality.
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