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Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.
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The Atlantic The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying
And the implications for work and cities are going to be fascinating.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why America Has So Few Doctors
As a matter of basic economics, fewer doctors means less care and more expensive services.
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The Atlantic How Denmark Decided COVID Isn’t a Critical Threat to Society
The country became the first in the EU to lift all COVID restrictions despite leading the world in per capita infections.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock Why Simple Is Smart
Complicated language can send a signal that a writer is dense or overcompensating.
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Hulton Archive / Getty Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?
The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past.
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Hy Peskin / Getty; The Atlantic The Most Amazing Statistical Achievement in U.S. Sports History
Wilt Chamberlain. Joe DiMaggio. Simone Biles. Which of their athletic achievements is most impressive?
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The Atlantic Silicon Valley’s New Obsession
A group of tech founders, crypto billionaires, and star scientists is launching a fleet of science labs.
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Getty; The Atlantic A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems
The U.S. doesn’t have enough COVID tests—or houses, immigrants, physicians, or solar panels. We need an abundance agenda.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why More Americans Are Saying They’re ‘Vaxxed and Done’
COVID has always divided Americans. The Omicron wave is even dividing the vaccinated.
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The Atlantic Is Omicron Milder?
The mystery of the moment is very hard to solve. Here’s my best shot.
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The Atlantic Is America Really Running Out of Original Ideas?
The nation’s crisis of originality isn’t in our minds, but in our markets.
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Chaloner Woods / Getty; The Atlantic We Know a Lot More About Omicron Now
Here’s how to think about all the emerging data.
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Getty; Adam Maida / The Atlantic Three Myths of the Great Resignation
What if I told you the Big Quit wasn’t really about “quitting”?
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty Joe Biden’s Year Was Ruined. Whose Fault Is That?
The president doesn’t control the economy, and a lot of presidential politics is just plain dumb luck.
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Bettmann / Getty; The Atlantic America Is Running on Fumes
In film, science, and the economy, the U.S. has fallen out of love with the hard work of ushering new ideas into the world.
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