Chronic Pain Is an Impossible Problem
A “safe” alternative to opioid painkillers turns out to be not so safe.
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Pablo Amargo An Ode to Middle Age
Your body begins to betray you. You have neither the vitality of youth nor the license of old age. But being over the hill has its pleasures.
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Ina Lihach / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Next Vaping
Big Tobacco claims to have created a safer cigarette. Is unleashing it a big mistake?
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Elnur / Maksim Shmeljov / Shutterstock / The ... Is It Weird to Wear Leggings at Work?
Women put up with a lot at the office. At least grant us elastic waistbands.
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Antonio Guillem / Getty / The Atlantic Meme Thievery Goes Corporate
The newest strategy for marketing to young people is stealing their jokes.
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The Hidden Crisis in Rural America
Most nonmetropolitan counties don’t have mental-health professionals, resulting in a “revolving door” to jail.
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BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Disappearing Y Chromosome
It’s surprisingly common for men to start losing entire chromosomes from blood cells as they age.
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Reuters Peloton Doesn’t Understand the People Who Love It Most
The fancy bike brand tried to depict a wellness journey. It didn’t go as planned.
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Kirsty Johnston The False Promise of Morning Routines
Why everyone’s mornings seem more productive than yours
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Shutterstock / Chris Chester / The Atlantic How to Not Die This Thanksgiving
Tips to avoid being poisoned, intentionally or otherwise
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GIACOMO BAGNARA What Happens When You Buy From Gift Guides
Every website wants to pick out your mom’s next cashmere sweater.
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The Labyrinthine Experience of Mental Illness
A deep dive into one man’s journey navigating his complicated mental health
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Susan Wood / Getty The Behavioral Economics of Restaurant Menus
Subtle tweaks in pricing and design can nudge diners toward more expensive meals.
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Joseph Ax / Reuters The Stunning Rise of Single-Payer Health Care
How a socialist-seeming health-care policy became a rallying cry in the Democratic mainstream
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NASA An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream
A study has turned up a side effect of human spaceflight that no one had observed before.
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Seth Wenig / AP Marie Kondo Goes Full Goop
The tidying guru helped America clean out its closets. Now she wants to fill them back up.
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Getty / Shutterstock / The Atlantic America’s Best Drug Dealers Are A-List Celebrities
Cannabis companies have found a splashy way to avoid ad regulations.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Man Who Did Not Sweat
In an effort to prove that he did not sexually assault a 17-year-old in the 1990s, Prince Andrew offered a bizarre medical explanation.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Three Personalities of America
People in different regions of the U.S. have measurably different psychological profiles.
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Matthieu Bourel The President’s Cognitive Decline
As age factors more urgently in politics, a simple test could evaluate who remains fit for office.
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Alistair Grant / AP Google’s Totally Creepy, Totally Legal Health-Data Harvesting
Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up.
