AFP / GettyEconomics Is BrokenA former economic adviser to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama argues that the field should be focused on maximizing people’s happiness and fulfillment.Annika NeklasonJuly 9, 2019
Andrew Harnik / APA Linguist’s Case Against SocialismHistory has made the term vague and unproductive. Should it be retired?Annika NeklasonJuly 2, 2019
Steve Helber / APThe Alt-Right’s Tactical CrueltyThe so-called alt-right is characterized not only by its ideology, but also by the cruelty of its tactics. Trump and his allies embrace those tactics.Conor FriedersdorfJuly 2, 2019
Tom Fowlks / GettyAre Small Private Colleges Worth the Money?Paying for college is becoming more difficult. So is justifying the full-freight cost of some private institutions.Adam HarrisJuly 2, 2019
Yorgos Karahalis / ReutersPhilanthropy Serves the Status QuoWhat if powerful foundations pushed for radical, large-scale change?Annika NeklasonJuly 1, 2019
Virojt Changyencham / GettyHow to Speak to Someone Who’s SufferingA cancer patient wants the world to understand that bad things can happen to good people.Taylor LorenzJuly 1, 2019
John Vachon / Library of CongressThe Education Deserts of Rural AmericaThe college-completion gap between rural and urban residents is widening.Adam HarrisJuly 1, 2019
John Minchillo / APSuicide Isn’t Just a Personal IssueThe U.S. has a long history of misunderstanding mental-health struggles.Amanda MullJune 30, 2019
Lucy Nicholson / ReutersA Practical Approach to Police BiasCan changing officers’ default protocols help change minds?Annika NeklasonJune 29, 2019
Nora Carol Photography / Getty / The AtlanticCorporations’ Social Crusades Often Leave Out WorkersAll the good PR in the world won’t raise wages or improve benefits for a company’s employees.Amanda MullJune 28, 2019
Andrey_Popov / ShutterstockThe Architects Redefining AestheticsBuilding design isn’t just about visual appeal.Annika NeklasonJune 27, 2019
Richard Drury / GettyWhy Science Can Be So Indecisive About NutritionYears of conflicting studies about certain foods and diets tell us a lot about both our bodies and ourselves.Amanda MullJune 27, 2019
Shannon Stapleton / ReutersWhat Gets Lost When Polls Become the StoryAs the 2020 presidential-election season gets under way, many journalists are reflecting on how not to make the same mistakes from the last cycle.Hannah GiorgisJune 27, 2019
Isabelle Chauvel / GettyThe Infrastructure of JoyWill building delight into cities make them more cloying or more fun?Ian BogostJune 27, 2019
Jeff Chiu / APHow to Remember EverythingThe world’s most accomplished memorizers insist their powers aren’t an innate gift, but rather a skill that anyone can hone.Annika NeklasonJune 27, 2019
Romeo Ranoco / Reuters‘We Have Been Lazy on Hate’Farah Pandith wants the U.S. government and corporations to do more to combat radical extremists as they recruit Millennials.Conor FriedersdorfJune 27, 2019
Rogelio V. Solis / APElectric Cars Still Face a Major RoadblockTo wean drivers off gas vehicles, automakers need to help them develop a whole new understanding of what it means to own a motorcar.Ian BogostJune 27, 2019
David McNew / ReutersThe Biggest Deterrent to Reporting Child Sexual AbuseChildren’s-rights advocates have been working to fix statute-of-limitation laws that stop victims from coming forward later in life.Hannah GiorgisJune 26, 2019
BoeingBoeing Won’t Rename the 737 Max“We’re not focused on branding and marketing. We’re focused on safety.”Ian BogostJune 26, 2019
Rick Wilking / Reuters‘Don’t Go After Old Uncle Joe Too Fast’Chris Christie’s debate tipsConor FriedersdorfJune 26, 2019
Demetrius FreemanHow American Women Are Amplifying Their Political Power“I am not interested in building the capacity of people who are in office that want to take away my health care.”Hannah GiorgisJune 25, 2019
Thomas Damgaard Sabo, Damgaard Photography / GettyHow to Respond to Teens’ ‘Emotional Eruptions’Adolescents’ newly complex feelings are something they often struggle to make sense of.Joe PinskerJune 25, 2019
Sean Gladwell / GettyA Rational Case for Following Your EmotionsFeelings aren’t as senseless as Americans have been led to believe.Amanda MullJune 25, 2019
Ted Soqui / GettyFree Solo Is Not a Life LessonAlex Honnold’s historic climb is too extraordinary to become a story of motivational-poster determination.Ian BogostJune 25, 2019
Kwiyeon Ha / ReutersWhat If Social Media Could Tell You When You’re Mean?Ditching likes for facial scans could be the way to a kinder, if creepier, online world.Ian BogostJune 25, 2019
Lisi Niesner / ReutersCan Neurodiversity Defeat Doublethink?Masha Gessen suggests there was a connection between Asperger’s and social activism in the Soviet era.Conor FriedersdorfJune 25, 2019
Carlo Allegri / ReutersChristie’s Scathing Indictment of TrumpHe declared his intention to vote Trump in 2020—even though he thinks Trump surrounded himself with awful people.Conor FriedersdorfJune 25, 2019
Elaine Thompson / APThe Two Technologies Changing the Future of Cancer TreatmentResearchers are eager to leave behind the brutal side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. Amanda MullJune 25, 2019
Ints Kalnins / ReutersWhat the U.S. Medical System Can Learn From EstoniaAmericans waste time and money filling out paperwork and repeating tests in the doctor’s office. A small Baltic nation has found a better way.Olga KhazanJune 25, 2019
Joerg Sarbach / APThe Hospital Is Too Damn LoudThe average hospitalized patient endures 350 alarms each day.Sarah ZhangJune 25, 2019
Mark Peterson / GettyThe Problem With Diversity in ComputingTech’s discriminatory culture might never change, no matter how many women and people of color are invited into the room.Ian BogostJune 25, 2019
artland / GettyThe Yale Happiness Class, DistilledThe psychology professor Laurie Santos delivers the “shortest possible crash-course version” of the university’s most popular course ever.Joe PinskerJune 25, 2019
Lois S. Wiggs / CDCShould Human Feces Be Regulated Like a Drug?A fecal-transplant patient has unexpectedly died just as the FDA is deciding the future of the unconventional procedure.Sarah ZhangJune 24, 2019
Stoyan Neno / ReutersThe Startling Rise of Choking During SexA quarter of women in the U.S. report feeling scared during sex.Olga KhazanJune 24, 2019
Ben Curtis / Associated pressWhat It Means for Health Care to Be a Human RightTo protect a population’s health, governments might have to think beyond access to care.Amanda MullJune 24, 2019
bookzv / ShutterstockThe Pediatrician’s Most Awkward TaskCan doctors teach people how to parent?Sarah ZhangJune 24, 2019
Hannah Mckay / ReutersA Brit’s Advice for the U.S. Health-Care SystemAn expert on the National Health Service says the reason America doesn’t have universal coverage might be a difference in mind-set.Olga KhazanJune 21, 2019
Xinzheng / GettyHuman Lives Might Be Long Enough AlreadyHumanity has added three decades to people’s life spans in the past 150 years. Science is only beginning to catch up.Amanda MullJune 21, 2019
Brendan McDermid / ReutersIs #MeToo Too Big?Tarana Burke, the movement’s founder, wants it to return to its original—and specific—purpose: to serve as a counter to sexual violence.Megan GarberJuly 4, 2018