In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?
Why have some student athletes gone hungry while their schools have earned millions? The Atlantic staff writer and former college athlete Adam Harris explains.
When children fall short, many parents’ instinct is to take away something they love. That’s the wrong impulse.
America was never healthy to begin with.
A new sign that AI is competing with college grads
The dream of a phone without problems
What becomes of the babies of incarcerated mothers? Research suggests that having nurseries in prisons leads to lower recidivism rates for moms and better outcomes for their kids.
Residents of Baldwin, Michigan, pooled together their money to provide scholarships for everyone, and it changed the town profoundly.
When Michaeleen Doucleff met parents from around the world, she encountered millennia-old methods of raising good kids that made American parenting seem bizarre and ineffective.
In Imperial Beach, a dramatic solution to coastal flooding