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Carlina Teteris / Getty The Boomers Ruined Everything
The mistakes of the past are fast creating a crisis for younger Americans.
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Mendelsund & Munday What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
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Bill Boch / Getty Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans
A new study shows Americans have little understanding of their political adversaries—and education doesn’t help.
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Luci Gutiérrez Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
Here’s how to make the most of it.
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Peter Bohler At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
These days, it seems, just about all organizations are asking their employees to do more with less. Is that actually a good idea?
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Why a Government Lawyer Argued Against Giving Immigrant Kids Toothbrushes
The sheer effrontery of the government’s argument may be explained, but not excused, by its long backstory.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Pete Buttigieg’s Crash Course in Crisis
For all those nationally who’ve been dazzled by the mayor, the voters of South Bend aren’t satisfied with his response to a fatal police shooting last week.
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David Williams What Do You Do When No One Takes You Seriously?
The political rookies Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson will get their shot at Thursday’s Democratic debate, sharing the stage with eight politicians with a combined 150 years of elected experience.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: I Can’t Stand My Fiancée’s Ex-Husband
He wants to take pictures with her and their daughter like they’re still one happy family—and I want him to stop.
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bookzv / Shutterstock The Pediatrician’s Most Awkward Task
Can doctors teach people how to parent?
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Question the Iran Hawks Haven’t Answered
What happens after the bombing starts? The people pushing for a fight with Tehran have offered only the vaguest details.
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John Moore / Getty Trumpism, Realized
To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Surreal End of an American College
Small schools across the United States are facing budget shortfalls and low enrollment—leading some to shut down in the middle of students’ higher-education experience.
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@FASHIONAMBITIONIST Welcome to the Era of Branded Engagements
An influencer’s “surprise adventure” was apparently pitched to brands months before it even began.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters The Contraceptive Mandate Discriminates on the Basis of Sex
Its exclusion of men perpetuates harmful stereotypes. The most obvious one is that birth control is a woman’s responsibility.
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Richard Drew / AP The National Security Adviser Has No Heart
Tucker Carlson called John Bolton a “bureaucratic tapeworm.” Is his wrath justified?
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Ilbusca / Getty A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases
Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems.
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Carlos Javier Ortiz The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters AOC’s Generation Doesn’t Presume America’s Innocence
Ocasio-Cortez’s “concentration camps” comment questions an old orthodoxy: that only other countries—and not the U.S.—are capable of evil.
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New Studio The Problem With HR
For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out?
