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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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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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.
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Giacomo Bagnara The Zombie Storefronts of America
If retail is dying, then pop-up shops might be what replace it.
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Leemage / UIG via Getty / The Atlantic The Middle Ages’ Ultimate Sign of Loyalty
A grisly amputation hints at why Europeans once had so much reverence for rulers’ feet.
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Lisa Mosconi What Menopause Does to Women’s Brains
Two-thirds of Alzheimer’s patients are women. My foggy 53-year-old brain could help explain why.
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AkhilaMK / Shutterstock Free the Eggplant
Facebook wants to crack down on sexy emoji. It forgets how creative the internet can be.
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Won Kim Photography / Getty What Happens to Relationships When Sex Hurts
Women who suffer from the chronic-pain condition vulvodynia often feel isolated from their partners. But a better medical understanding is helping.
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Toru Yamanaka / Getty A Crucial Blind Spot in Veterinary Medicine
The placebo effect shows up in pets too, but these treatments are fooling owners, not their animals.
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Danish Ismail / Reuters What Your Facebook Posts Say About Your Mental Health
Psychologists are discovering just how much information about our inner states can be gleaned from social media.
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Mansi Thapliyal / Reuters We Are Running Out of Air
One suffocating city is a harbinger of health crises around the world.
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How ISIS Radicalized My Son
A British mother recounts the harrowing story of her son’s radicalization and subsequent death on the front lines in Syria.
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Verity Slade The Keto Diet’s Most Controversial Champion
A chemist once at the center of an era-defining sports scandal now is eager to improve your health.
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Bob Jacobson / Getty / The Atlantic I Joined a Stationary-Biker Gang
Peloton aficionados say the latest exercise craze gives them a sense of community they sorely missed.
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The Millennial Booze Fatigue Syndrome
The mores around alcohol consumption are changing for Millennials, but that may not be reflected in their habits just yet.
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Rogan Ward / Reuters Should I Eat Potatoes While I Run?
Consuming a lot of sugar is essential for endurance athletes, but the process doesn’t need to be complicated.
