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Sean Gladwell / Getty A Rational Case for Following Your Emotions
Feelings aren’t as senseless as Americans have been led to believe.
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Ted Soqui / Getty Free Solo Is Not a Life Lesson
Alex Honnold’s historic climb is too extraordinary to become a story of motivational-poster determination.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Not Even Trump Has Any Idea What His Iran Policy Is
The president canceled a strike because it was “not proportionate,” and then vowed “obliteration.”
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Jason Lee / Reuters Trump’s Trade War With China Is Already Changing the World
His tariffs are contributing to a “generational shift” in which companies make their products.
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Emma McIntyre / Getty Hannah Gadsby’s Genius Follow-Up to Nanette
On her current tour, the star comedian is having a conspicuously great time making humorless subjects hilarious.
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Kwiyeon Ha / Reuters What If Social Media Could Tell You When You’re Mean?
Ditching likes for facial scans could be the way to a kinder, if creepier, online world.
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Lisi Niesner / Reuters Can Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?
Masha Gessen suggests there was a connection between Asperger’s and social activism in the Soviet era.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Christie’s Scathing Indictment of Trump
He declared his intention to vote Trump in 2020—even though he thinks Trump surrounded himself with awful people.
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Elaine Thompson / AP The Two Technologies Changing the Future of Cancer Treatment
Researchers are eager to leave behind the brutal side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters What the U.S. Medical System Can Learn From Estonia
Americans waste time and money filling out paperwork and repeating tests in the doctor’s office. A small Baltic nation has found a better way.
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Reuters What the Iran Crisis Reveals About European Power
Without a rival currency, there is none.
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Joerg Sarbach / AP The Hospital Is Too Damn Loud
The average hospitalized patient endures 350 alarms each day.
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Mark Peterson / Getty The Problem With Diversity in Computing
Tech’s discriminatory culture might never change, no matter how many women and people of color are invited into the room.
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Ronald Dick Hot Chip Hones the Meaning of ‘Ecstasy’
The great dance band’s seventh album, A Bath Full of Ecstasy, delivers pleasure while questioning it.
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artland / Getty The Yale Happiness Class, Distilled
The psychology professor Laurie Santos delivers the “shortest possible crash-course version” of the university’s most popular course ever.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Trouble Starts If Facebook’s New Currency Succeeds
Libra will almost exactly replicate all the problems generated by the company’s social network.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters What McDonald’s Does Right
Americans have fewer and fewer spaces to gather. That’s where nuggets come in.
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Matt Sullivan / Reuters The Electoral Time Machine That Could Reelect Trump
White Christians are no longer the majority in America, but they’re still driving election results.
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders / Magnolia Pictures A Documentary That Shows Another Side of Toni Morrison
A new film captures the larger-than-life author in exceedingly human terms.
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Katie Martin ‘A Work of Art Designed by the Devil’
Dispatched by Life magazine to cover the Apollo 11 mission, Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris.
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John Cuneo The Last of Its Kind
The biologist David Sischo has a tragic assignment: keeping vigil over a species’ sole survivor, then marking its extinction in real time.
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Lucy Jones The Forgotten History of Gay Entrapment
Routine arrests were the linchpin of a social system intended to humiliate LGBTQ people.
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Brynn Anderson / AP Jay Inslee: ‘I Got a Whole Nother Story to Tell’
The Washington governor realizes that voters care about more than just climate change.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Cancel Culture
Bernie Sanders’s new $1.6 trillion debt-cancellation plan is the most expansive yet among 2020 contenders. Plus: There’s trouble in South Bend.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What Sets Bernie Sanders’s Student-Debt Plan Apart
The senator, alongside Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, announced legislation to cancel all student-loan debt and make college debt-free.
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Norway’s First-Ever Rural Pride Parade
Despite protests, a celebration of Pride in small-town Norway draws thousands of supporters.
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Bettmann / Getty Weird, Wonderful Photos From Another Era
A grab bag of interesting, seldom-seen historic images depicting myriad people, places, and things—from epic achievements to small moments.
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Michael Fiala / Reuters Monarch Butterflies Reared in Captivity Lack a Crucial Ability
A scientist hoped commercially raised butterflies would be identical to their wild counterparts, but found their navigation abilities varied.
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Craig Ruttle / AP The Cruel Paradox at the Heart of E. Jean Carroll’s Allegation Against Trump
The famous writer’s rape accusation against the president fell victim to the familiar workings of attention fatigue.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump Goes After Iran’s Supreme Leader
After pulling back from a strike on Iran, the Trump administration opted to impose sanctions on Ali Khamenei. But it’s unclear how effective they’ll really be.
