What Your Politics Do to Your Morals
A twist in the science of how people form their political identities
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Mike Blake / Reuters The U.S. Health-Care System Found a Way to Make Peanuts Cost $4,200
A new, billion-dollar pharmaceutical to treat peanut allergies is up for approval. It’s simply peanut flour.
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Courtesy of Holly Becker / The Atlantic A Woman’s AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret
As a cancer patient, she had received cord-blood cells from an anonymous donor. The DNA from those cells led her to him.
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Win McNamee / Getty The Health-Care Debate Gets Nasty
In the latest Democratic presidential debate, the candidates stopped being polite and started getting real.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Vaping Falls in Trump’s Crosshairs
A national ban on flavored e-cigarettes is coming.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Trouble With America’s Water
Lead-tainted drinking water is not only a problem in Flint and Newark.
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Graiki / Getty A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
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Eleni Kalorkoti The Secret Power of Menopause
Why the end of fertility doesn’t mark the start of decline—and may even help explain our success as a species.
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Toshiro Shimada / Getty Vaping’s Plausible Deniability Is Going Up in Smoke
Ongoing FDA investigations and a spate of hospitalizations show that “safer than cigarettes” does not mean safe.
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters People Actually Quit SoulCycle
Most boycotts fail. Why does this one seem to be working?
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ribkaizpruda / Shutterstock Scrunchies Are Little Rainbow Reminders That Millennials Are Old
There’s a reason the return of retro trends bothers so many people.
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Chip Simons / Getty The Patient Who Finally Knows Why Her UTIs Won’t Go Away
Urinary-tract infections were once easy to cure. Then they started becoming resistant to antibiotics.
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Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters A Tiny, 25-Year-Old Study Still Drives Opinion on Pregnancy and Pot
The “Jamaica study” has garnered more attention online than 99 percent of scientific research.
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An 11-Year-Old Takes on a Nuclear Power Plant
Sam faces a dilemma as he comes of age in the shadow of Britain's largest power plant.
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Keith Srakocic / AP The Opioid Reckoning Will Not Be Just
It’s here, and it’s inadequate.
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Simon Montag What Happens When You Don’t Pay a Hospital Bill
As Americans sink under medical expenses, debt collectors go to great—and sometimes strange—lengths to collect.
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Anthony Grace / Mosaic The Meaning of Silence in Conversations About Death
Could AI teach doctors when to stop talking?
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Veronica Winters / Shutterstock White Claw Is What Happens When Being Cool Becomes Exhausting
Here’s to giving up.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic I Gooped Myself
I spent $1,279 of The Atlantic’s money on creams, crystals, and a vibrator from Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness empire. Things got weird.
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ben bryant / Shutterstock Trump Orders ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Depressed Veterans
The president told the VA to purchase a large amount of a controversial new nasal spray. The agency says it will consider incorporating the drug after it has more data.
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It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the ’80s
A number of surprising factors may be contributing to the modern obesity epidemic.
