The Atlantic Summaries and Reviews

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9 Article

The Price of Privacy

Who gets to keep a secret in a hyperconnected world?
Sarah E. Igo
The Atlantic, 2022
8 Article

Make Yourself Happy: Be Kind

How to break the negative feedback loop that can make us act mean
Arthur C. Brooks
The Atlantic, 2023
8 Article

The Happiest Way to Change Jobs

How to rock your work rather than let the work rule you
Arthur C. Brooks
The Atlantic, 2023
8 Article

The Myth of "Learning Styles"

A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked.
Olga Khazan
The Atlantic, 2018
9 Article

The Parenting Prophecy

The way someone was raised often shows up in the way they raise their own kids — for better or worse.
Faith Hill
The Atlantic, 2023
9 Article

How to Sleep

Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age.
James Hamblin
The Atlantic, 2017
9 Article

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

And start raising kind ones.
Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant
The Atlantic, 2019
8 Article

The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake

Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment.
Jerusalem Demsas
The Atlantic, 2022
9 Article

The biggest problem with remote work

Companies need a new kind of middle manager: The synchronizer.
Derek Thompson
The Atlantic, 2022
9 Article
Olga Khazan
The Atlantic, 2021
10 Article

Lessons from 19 Years in the Metaverse

A conversation with one of the few people who have real historical perspective on digital communities
Charlie Warzel
The Atlantic, 2022
7 Article

The Secret to a Fight-Free Relationship

Conventional wisdom says that venting is cathartic and that we should never go to bed angry. But couples who save disagreements for scheduled meetings show the benefits of a more patient approach to conflict.
Rhaina Cohen
The Atlantic, 2021
9 Article
Ed Zitron
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article

Why Do We Need to Sleep?

At a shiny new lab in Japan, an international team of scientists is trying to figure out what puts us under.
Veronique Greenwood
The Atlantic, 2018
9 Article
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Atlantic, 2015
9 Article

Why I Hope to Die at 75

An argument that society and families – and you – will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
The Atlantic, 2014
7 Article

Why So Many COVID Predictions Were Wrong

The eviction tsunami never happened. Neither did the “she-cession.” Here are four theories for the failed economic forecasting of the pandemic era.
Jerusalem Demsas
The Atlantic, 2022
9 Article

The Food War

The food shock of 2022 is not a good-news story. But our “bad” is less bad than ever before.
David Frum
The Atlantic, 2022
8 Article
Joe Pinsker
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article
Derek Thompson
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article
Jerry Useem
The Atlantic, 2017
8 Article

What Happens When You’re the Investment

Social capital is becoming economic capital
Rex Woodbury
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article
Rachel Gutman
The Atlantic, 2021
9 Article

The Supply of Disinformation Soon Will Be Infinite

Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level.
Renee DiResta
The Atlantic, 2020
7 Video
Taylor Lorenz
The Atlantic, 2019
8 Article

How to Fight Amazon (Before You Turn 29)

Lina Khan Has a Novel Theory About Monopolies – and Her Sights Are Set Squarely on the Company.
Robinson Meyer
The Atlantic, 2018
7 Article
Henry Kissinger
The Atlantic, 2018
8 Article
Jean M. Twenge
The Atlantic, 2017
8 Video

Income Without Work

The Future of Work Summit
Scott Santens and Steve Clemons
The Atlantic, 2016
8 Article

America Is Running Out of Everything

The global supply chain is slowing down at the at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive
Derek Thompson
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article
James Fallows
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article

Why Everything Is Sold Out

How the pandemic broke online shopping
Amanda Mull
The Atlantic, 2020
8 Article

The 3 Things That Make Organizations More Prone to Sexual Harassment

Nothing’s foolproof, but there are research-proven changes companies could make.
Marianne Cooper
The Atlantic, 2017
7 Article

When Bankers Started Playing With Other People’s Money

In 1970, the small firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette held its IPO – and fundamentally reshaped the world of finance.
William D. Cohan
The Atlantic, 2017
8 Article
Alia Wong
The Atlantic, 2016