Why Kids Sext
An inquiry into one recent scandal reveals how kids think about sexting—and what parents and police should do about it.
November 2014
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The Technology Issue: Why kids sext (and what to do about it), the new technology of adultery, what Silicon Valley's best minds think about everything from drones to Uber, the Steve Jobs of beer, and more
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The Adultery Arms Race
Technology has made cheating on your spouse, or catching a cheater, easier than ever. How digital tools are aiding the unfaithful and the untrusting—and may be mending some broken marriages.
Dudes With Drones
Meet the inventors, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs at the forefront of the flying-robot revolution.
The Secret History of the Robot Car
How self-driving vehicles took off
Assembly Lines
The organizations, technologies, and people behind Google's autonomous vehicles
The View From the Valley
Are we in a tech bubble? Is Snowden a hero? And what’s the hottest status symbol? In The Atlantic’s first Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 50 executives, innovators, and thinkers answer these questions and more.
China’s Dangerous Game
The country's intensifying efforts to redraw maritime borders have its neighbors, and the U.S., fearing war. But does the aggression reflect a government growing in power—or one facing a crisis of legitimacy?
Doctors Tell All—and It’s Bad
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis.
Dispatches
R. Kikuo Johnson The Great Midterm Divide
It’s an obvious problem for Democrats—and perhaps an even larger one for Republicans.
Post Typography Passive Resistance
The active voice isn’t always the best choice.
John Cuneo The Steve Jobs of Beer
Ambition made Jim Koch, the head of Sam Adams, a billionaire. It also opened America to a craft-beer renaissance.
Yuko Shimizu Cracking the Bamboo Ceiling
Can Asian American men learn from Lean In?
Dan Woodger Keeping the Faith
How childhood influences churchgoing
Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post/Getty The Urban Future of the American Suburb
Michael Caplin's quest to transform the quintessential edge city
Tim Peacock The Doctor That Never Sleeps
How will telemedicine shape the future of patient-doctor relationships?
La Mafia Mafia Restaurants
A new chain of themed restaurants catches on in Spain.
W.W. Norton and Company The Allure of Execution
A very short book excerpt
The Culture File
Jimmy Turrell Death and Mrs. Doubtfire
The secret ingredient of Robin Williams’s greatest role: grief
Simon Prades Understanding Stalin
Russian archives reveal that he was no madman, but a very smart and implacably rational ideologue.
DC Entertainment Wonder Woman’s Kinky Feminist Roots
The odd life and psyche of the man who invented her
Departments
The Conversation
Responses and reverberations
Graham Roumieu The Big Question
Who is the most underrated politician in history?
