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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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James Leynse / Corbis / Getty What the Tech and Media Layoffs Are Really Telling Us About the Economy
About 130,000 people have been dismissed from their jobs at large tech and media companies in the past 12 months. Why?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Stop Trying to Ask ‘Smart Questions’
“Can you just explain this to me like I barely know anything about this subject?”
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Corinna Kern / laif / Redux The Surprising Reason for the Decline in Cancer Mortality
Behavioral changes and screenings may be just as important as treatments, if not more so.
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Getty; The Altantic The Consolidation-Disruption Index Is Alarming
Science has a crummy-paper problem.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Economy’s Fundamental Problem Has Changed
For years, Americans couldn’t afford to buy things. Now there aren’t enough things to buy.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake
Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why America Doesn’t Build What It Invents
The U.S. just made a breakthrough in nuclear-fusion technology. Will we know how to use it?
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Breakthroughs of the Year
Pictures of the beginning of the universe, medicine that can (kind of) reverse death, and other leaps of human ingenuity
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Getty; The Atlantic Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI
Robots were once considered capable only of unimaginative, routine work. Today they write articles and create award-winning art.
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Getty; The Atlantic My Crypto Confession
Sam Bankman-Fried was a member of two cults: one I have criticized, and one I belong to.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why Everything in Tech Seems to Be Collapsing at Once
The industry is having a midlife crisis.
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Getty; The Atlantic Democrats Might Have Pulled Off the Biggest Midterm Shock in Decades
Overall, the polls were basically right. It was the vibes that were wrong.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Housing Market Has Gone From Bad to Worse
In 15 years, we’ve had a historic housing crash, a historic housing crunch, a historic pandemic-fueled buying spree, and a historic mortgage-rate spiral.
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Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
You can make a thing so perfect that it’s ruined.
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Getty; The Atlantic School Closures Were a Failed Policy
America's pandemic learning losses are real. We need to see that reality clearly to do better next time.
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The Atlantic How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe
Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world.
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Getty; The Atlantic America Is Giving the World a Stomachache
How the Fed could accidentally break the global economy
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Getty / The Atlantic What No One Understands About Your Job
Misconceptions about pastors, playwrights, postal workers, and other professionals
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Ilana Panich-Linsman / The New York Times / … What Americans Don’t Understand About Teachers and Professors
Given that education has become polarized and politicized, it makes sense that educators feel misunderstood and underappreciated.
