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Gie Knaeps / Getty The Band That Best Captures the Sound of the ’70s
Other groups made a bigger splash, but Blondie was a true genre chameleon.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic ChatGPT Is About to Dump More Work on Everyone
Artificial intelligence could spare you some effort. Even if it does, it will create a lot more work in the process.
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Jan Buchczik The Hidden Link Between Workaholism and Mental Health
Long hours on the job can temporarily ease the symptoms of depression and anxiety. But you’re better off leaving the office and facing your feelings head-on.
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Concept by Seb Agresti; Illustration by The Atlantic The Man Who Moves Markets
Carson Block uses covert techniques to uncover fraud for profit. Now he’s under investigation himself. Is he the hero of Wall Street, or the villain?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty My Printer Is Extorting Me
Subscriptions such as HP’s Instant Ink challenge what it means to own our devices.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Dmytro Kosmenko / … Psychedelics Open Your Brain. You Might Not Like What Falls In.
Reshaping your mind isn’t always a great idea.
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Illustration by Doug Chayka* The GOP Is Just Obnoxious
It’s why the party keeps losing elections.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking
For the first time in 50 years, the rich are buying more free time.
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Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post / Getty Republicans’ 2024 Magical Thinking
Lots of Republicans want Donald Trump to disappear from politics. Their main strategy is hope.
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Shira Inbar We’ve Lost the Plot
Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Weight-Loss-Drug Revolution Is a Miracle—And a Menace
How the new obesity pills could upend American society
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty The People Who Don’t Read Books
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Joe Biden Wins Again
Biden Rest Stops as far as the eye can see
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Pierre Buttin What the Longest Study on Human Happiness Found Is the Key to a Good Life
The Harvard Study of Adult Development has established a strong correlation between deep relationships and well-being. The question is, how does a person nurture those deep relationships?
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Illustration by Eric Yahnker. Source: House Creative Services. Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Like This?
On the ground in the Georgia congresswoman’s alternate universe
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Gabriella Angotti-Jones / The New York Times / … The Downsides of Having an Athlete in the Family
Many parents sacrifice money and time to support a child's athletic dreams, to the detriment of the household.
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The Atlantic; Antoine Antoniol / Getty Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America
Is this feminism?
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Adrian Muttitt / Millennium Images / Gallery Stock The Marriage Lesson That I Learned Too Late
The existence of love, trust, respect, and safety in a relationship is often dependent on moments you might write off as petty disagreements.
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Courtesy Brown University Library How Watermelons Became a Racist Trope
Before its subversion in the Jim Crow era, the fruit symbolized black self-sufficiency.
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Carlos Javier Ortiz The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
