How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time
Young people might be responding to a cultural message: Reading just isn’t that important.
Imagine a Drug That Feels Like Tylenol and Works Like OxyContin
New research points to a future in which pleasure and pain relief can be independently controlled.
The Perception Gap That Explains American Politics
Americans overwhelmingly—but, it turns out, mistakenly—believe that Democrats care more about advancing progressive social issues than widely shared economic ones.
The Most Controversial Game on the Internet
Wyna Liu, the editor of the New York Times game Connections, discusses her process and the particular ire her puzzles inspire.
Put Down the Vacuum
Americans need to get off the tidiness treadmill.
The Atlantic Gift Guide
The Atlantic has chosen 65 gifts for bringing more merriment, adventure, and wonder to the ones you love.
My Husband Paid Me to Do Housework
We wanted to address a systemic, gendered imbalance. It didn’t really work.
Expiration Dates Are Meaningless
Do I dare to eat an old peach yogurt? Yes, yes I do.
Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker
You don’t have to become a Buddhist monk to realize the value of contemplating hard questions without clear answers.
Always a Girlboss, Never a Tradwife
A new Netflix documentary explores the cost of Martha Stewart’s chase for domestic perfection.
Why People Wait 10 Days to Do Something That Takes 10 Minutes
Chores are the worst.
The Fairy Tale We’ve Been Retelling for 125 Years
Every generation has an Oz story, but one retelling best captures what makes L. Frank Baum’s world sing.
How Humans Handle Housework
Minimizing gender disparities in house chores means reconsidering some deeply held societal truths.
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
Is Ambivalence Killing Parenthood?
And can deciding to have kids even be a rational exercise in the first place?
How America Got Mean
In a culture devoid of moral education, generations are growing up in a morally inarticulate, self-referential world.
Even Worse Than The Da Vinci Code
Conclave treats Catholic theology as mere policy, like the membership rules at Augusta National.
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula
It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil.
The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t
For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.
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