The White Flight From Football
Parents know that football comes with a risk of brain damage. But many black families feel that the sport is still the best option for their kids.
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Mark Humphrey / AP How an Enslaved Distiller Was Written Out of Jack Daniel's History
Uncovering the true story of a legendary American brand
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mrs / Getty Being Trapped Indoors Is the Worst
In extreme cold, people are lucky to have shelter. But staying cooped up for days can do strange things to your brain.
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George / Getty What Billionaires’ Fasting Diets Mean for the Rest of Us
Silicon Valley’s food-centric productivity hacks can be dangerous even for people who don’t practice them.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Gym Class Is So Bad, Kids Are Skipping School to Avoid It
Not only does P.E. do little to improve physical fitness, but it can also lead to truancy and other disciplinary problems.
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Hilary Sloan / Instagram The Inevitable Aging of the Internet’s Famous Pets
How do owners—and fans—cope with celebrity animals’ later years?
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Natural History Museum Rotterdam This Is What Happens When You Drunkenly Swallow a Live Catfish
A hard lesson in a very strange party tradition
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Jennifer A. Smith / Getty The Murky Ethics of the Ugly-Produce Business
America’s wonkiest fruits and vegetables have ignited a food war.
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Winslow Townson / AP It’s Really Hard to Study Artificial Sweeteners
The health effects of saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose can be nearly impossible to tease apart from the impact of everything else people eat alongside them.
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Left: Shannon Stapleton / Reuters. Right: Courtesy of ... I Spent $925 on a Fake Canada Goose Coat
A winter splurge turns into an e-commerce nightmare.
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Intimate Love Letters, Read Aloud
Couples and ex-lovers share intense written expressions of commitment, loss, regret, infatuation, and emotional redemption.
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John Moore / Getty The Doctors Who Invented a New Way to Help People Die
The two lethal medications used by terminal patients who wish to end their own life recently became unavailable or prohibitively expensive.
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David Sacks / Getty Who Really Gets Hurt by Violent Fantasies?
Something to consider while you daydream about killing your boss
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Tim Chong / Reuters The Tricky Ethics of Transplants for Addicts
Many programs require liver recipients to be six months sober, but that policy may funnel organs away from the people they’re most likely to help.
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Pete Ryan What Life Is Like When Corn Is off the Table
Corn lurks in so many surprising places, from table salt to apples to IV bags.
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Alexandre Tamisier / Quanta A Hexagonal Theory of Memory
The same neural system could map both the physical and conceptual worlds.
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Sarah Wilkins What It’s Like to Visit an Existential Therapist
It’s not meant to be comforting, but somehow it is.
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100 / Getty Millennials Stare Into the Void, and Gillette Stares Back
Can marketers rebrand capitalism for young Americans?
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Kolesov Sergei / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What People Actually Say Before They Die
Insights into the little-studied realm of last words
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Clarence Williams / L.A. Times How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend
The story of Dr. Rapp
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The Skeletons in Abusers’ Closets
In a series of emotionally charged group therapy sessions, convicted batterers reflect on the beliefs and attitudes that underlie their behavior.
