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Michelle Rohn Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
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Edmon de Haro How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out.
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Awanish Tirkey / Shutterstock The Mystery of ‘Skeleton Lake’ Gets Deeper
Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, and a new study overturns a leading theory about how they got there.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Why Conservatives Are Turning Against Higher Education
College isn’t providing an effective engine of upward mobility for most Americans.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump’s Economic Anxiety
The president can scarcely afford to continue the trade war, but he can scarcely afford to end it either.
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Hannah Whitaker The Quickening
A story of two births
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters Trump Could Win Again
He’s unpopular, scandalous, and a bigot, and we may be sliding into a recession. But that might not matter.
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Nathan Mead / Getty Putting Kids on Diets Won’t Solve Anything
Weight Watchers has a new app for children as young as 8. It might be better for the company than it is for pediatric health.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters Planned Parenthood Makes a Huge Bet
The women’s-health organization will stop taking money from Title X, a government family-planning program, in light of a new rule that bars doctors from making referrals for abortion procedures.
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Matthew Mead / AP There Are Too Many Damn National ‘Something’ Days
Millions of people are extremely eager to celebrate fake holidays sponsored by corporations.
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Russell Boyce / Reuters The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619
Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism
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Erik Kabik / MediaPunch / IPX / AP Did Bill Clinton See This Coming?
On his 73rd birthday, the former MVP of the Democratic Party has been sidelined—perhaps for good.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Friends Are?
Constant location-sharing is now the norm for some friend groups.
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Eric Baradat / Getty Images The Case Against Paper Straws
They’re a single-use, disposable consumer item—a greener option, but not a green one.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters Uighurs Can’t Escape Chinese Repression, Even in Europe
Activists are sharing their stories and grief—and Beijing is paying attention.
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Ricky Kresslein / Getty Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts
But new insights are at last accumulating.
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John Minchillo / AP The Longer Trump Stays in Office, the More Americans Oppose His Views
The president is reshaping Americans’ political views, just not the way he intended.
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Aly Song / Reuters Every American Should Hope Trump Prevails Against China
Working on economic policy at the White House, I came to understand that the stakes of the confrontation are far higher than those of trade alone.
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Roman Samborskyi / Shutterstock / The Atlantic A Nation of Pundits
Electability is king in the 2020 Democratic primary as voters are choosing candidates they think their fellow citizens would support—not the ones they actually like best.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Some Christians ‘Love the Meanest Parts’ of Trump
The writer Ben Howe grew up in the world of conservative evangelicalism. When he looks at the religious right now, all he sees is a thirst for power and domination.
