When Virtues Become Vices
When addictive behaviors override our desires, it may be a sign to investigate the gap between what we crave and what’s really good for us.
What Puerto Rico Needs Most
Can an island that keeps getting pummeled by hurricanes ever be free?
How To Season 3: When Expectations Don’t Meet Reality
The building blocks for realigning expectations and reality in happiness
The New Kabul
One year since the Taliban took over, life in Afghanistan’s capital is a painful reminder of all that was lost when American troops suddenly left the country last year.
Zelensky Is Everywhere
The Ukrainian president has made himself omnipresent on the global stage. But actually seeing the man in person is another story.
How to Forgive Ourselves for What We Can’t Change
The things we can’t change often come back to haunt us. But our capacity to change the future may come from what we can’t change about the past.
What Comes After Roe?
Two Atlantic writers on the future of abortion access in America
The Misgivings of Friend-Making
The term social distance has come to characterize our times, with fewer chances to socialize and make friends. But for many, opportunities for friend-making and socialization have always been limited—veiled by the subjective rules of social inclusion.
When Can a Marriage Be Saved?
Knowing when to end a long-term relationship starts with knowing why things aren’t working.
When Partnership Is Not the Destination
In a society designed for romantic couples, singlehood can be seen as an unwelcome circumstance. For some, being single is not a matter of rebellion, but an irrefutable nature—worthy of its own social standing.
‘Parents Are Not All Good and All Bad’
As family norms evolve from generation to generation, so do parent-child dynamics. Changing our relationship with the people who raised us requires not only action but a consideration of whether it’s even possible.
The Experiment Podcast: The End of This Experiment
For The Experiment’s final episode, a meditation on our strange, sometimes beautiful, often frustrating country
Starting Over When You Think It’s Too Late
Starting over can feel impossible when it involves a sunk cost—an investment with no returns. But when it comes to your career, is it ever too late to start over?
The Experiment: How to Start Over With Olga Khazan
Olga Khazan and Julia Longoria sit down to announce The Atlantic’s new How To series: How to Start Over.
The Review: Top Gun
How does the classic work of propaganda hold up? And can its sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, deliver decades later?
The Experiment Podcast: The 50-Square-Mile Zone Where the Constitution Doesn't Apply
Deep in Yellowstone National Park, Mike Belderrain stumbled into an area where, technically, the law couldn’t touch him.
The Review: Knocked Up
Sophie Gilbert, Megan Garber, and Hannah Giorgis discuss Hollywood and the way it depicts abortion (or doesn’t).
The Experiment Podcast: Fighting to Remember Mississippi Burning
At the height of the Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil-rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Now the reporter Ko Bragg searches for memories in a town that would rather forget.
The Frenetic Basketball Nostalgia of Winning Time
Three basketball-loving writers discuss the first season of HBO’s controversial series about the 1980s Lakers.
The Experiment Podcast: Teenage Life After Genocide
The Experiment revisits the story of Aséna Tahir Izgil, a Uyghur teen adjusting to life in the U.S. after escaping China’s genocide of her people.