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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Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
Your mood might have a big influence on the type of companionship you want.
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Morphart Creation / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Suffragists Who Opposed Birth Control
Their reasoning shows how far women’s rights have come since the late 1800s.
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David Gray / Reuters The Reason Anxious People Often Have Allergies
There might be a hidden link between seasonal sniffles and mood disorders.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters The Discouraging Way Doctors Are Just Like Their Patients
Even the best-informed patients—physicians—don’t always follow medical advice when it comes to their own treatment.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters A Radical Way to Stop Heroin Overdoses
In a nationwide first, New Jersey will allow paramedics to initiate buprenorphine, a medication that can treat opioid addiction.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Biden’s Odd Slip of the Tongue
On the second night of the Democratic debates, the former vice president suggested, puzzlingly, that he would jail insurance executives.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Democrats Search for the Holy Grail of Health Care
The 2020 contenders disagree on whether the health-care system needs a major overhaul or incremental fixes.
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters What the U.S. Medical System Can Learn From Estonia
Americans waste time and money filling out paperwork and repeating tests in the doctor’s office. A small Baltic nation has found a better way.
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Stoyan Neno / Reuters The Startling Rise of Choking During Sex
A quarter of women in the U.S. report feeling scared during sex.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters A Brit’s Advice for the U.S. Health-Care System
An expert on the National Health Service says the reason America doesn’t have universal coverage might be a difference in mind-set.
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Ilbusca / Getty A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases
Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems.
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Mathew Sumner / AP The Misplaced Optimism in Legal Pot
A new study throws cold water on hopes that more liberal cannabis policies could stem the opioid epidemic.
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Mark Lennihan / AP The Case for Boring Office Clothes
Women frown on the Ann Taylor aesthetic, but there’s an upside to basic.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters You Can Buy Prescription Drugs Without Seeing a Doctor
Sites such as Hers offer to send pills directly to women to help them feel better—and prettier.
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DigitalVision / Getty Give Up on Work-Life Balance
Despite the pressure to have it all, many workers still feel they are failing both in the office and at home.
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Thibault Camus / AP Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity
As their goosebumps have long suggested, women perform better on tests of cognitive function at toastier room temperatures.
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Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters Why So Many Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption
Some American women see giving up their babies as more emotionally painful than terminating their pregnancies.
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David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters What Happens When You Always Wear Headphones
I decided to noise-cancel life.
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AfricaStudio / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The ... Rise of the Lady Backpack
Some white-collar women are ditching their purses for a more practical toting solution. They say they’ll never go back.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Do Married Millennials Cheat on Each Other?
For young couples these days, there seems to be more adulting, less adultery.
