Work in Progress
Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.
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Brian Finke / Gallery Stock We’re Missing a Key Driver of Teen Anxiety
A culture of obsessive student achievement and long schoolwork hours can make kids depressed.
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Miguel Pereira / Getty The Surprising Effects of Remote Work
Working from home could be making it easier for couples to become parents—and for parents to have more children.
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; source: Getty Why Are We Still Arguing About Masks?
All this time later, their utility is in doubt.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic The AI Disaster Scenario
Is it right to freak out? Is it wrong? Will AI end the human race? But also: Aren’t these tools awe-inspiring?
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Gregory Halpern / Magnum America’s Teenage Girls Are Not Okay
Rising teen anxiety is a national crisis.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic; Getty The Super Bowl Is an Economic Indicator
How the big game’s ads explain the crypto bubble, the price yo-yo, and the revenge of the touch-grass economy
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Getty; The Atlantic Don’t ‘Buy American’
Joe Biden wants to transform the U.S. economy. His plan has one big risk.
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The Atlantic The Economy Is Still Very, Very Weird
It’s the most important economic lesson of the decade: What goes up must come down (and what’s gone down will probably go up again).
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty America’s Fever of Workaholism Is Finally Breaking
For the first time in 50 years, the rich are buying more free time.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Weight-Loss-Drug Revolution Is a Miracle—And a Menace
How the new obesity pills could upend American society
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James Leynse / Corbis / Getty What the Tech and Media Layoffs Are Really Telling Us About the Economy
About 130,000 people have been dismissed from their jobs at large tech and media companies in the past 12 months. Why?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Stop Trying to Ask ‘Smart Questions’
“Can you just explain this to me like I barely know anything about this subject?”
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Corinna Kern / laif / Redux The Surprising Reason for the Decline in Cancer Mortality
Behavioral changes and screenings may be just as important as treatments, if not more so.
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Getty; The Altantic The Consolidation-Disruption Index Is Alarming
Science has a crummy-paper problem.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Economy’s Fundamental Problem Has Changed
For years, Americans couldn’t afford to buy things. Now there aren’t enough things to buy.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake
Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why America Doesn’t Build What It Invents
The U.S. just made a breakthrough in nuclear-fusion technology. Will we know how to use it?
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Breakthroughs of the Year
Pictures of the beginning of the universe, medicine that can (kind of) reverse death, and other leaps of human ingenuity
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Getty; The Atlantic Your Creativity Won’t Save Your Job From AI
Robots were once considered capable only of unimaginative, routine work. Today they write articles and create award-winning art.
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Getty; The Atlantic My Crypto Confession
Sam Bankman-Fried was a member of two cults: one I have criticized, and one I belong to.
