The Atlantic Summaries and Reviews
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Make Yourself Happy: Be Kind
How to break the negative feedback loop that can make us act mean
The Atlantic, 2023
End the Phone-Based Childhood Now
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.
The Atlantic, 2024
Welcome To Pricing Hell
The ubiquitous rise of add-on fees and personalized pricing has turned buying stuff into a game you can’t win.
The Atlantic, 2024
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.
The Atlantic, 2017
The Parenting Prophecy
The way someone was raised often shows up in the way they raise their own kids — for better or worse.
The Atlantic, 2023
The Happiest Way to Change Jobs
How to rock your work rather than let the work rule you
The Atlantic, 2023
What Happens When You’re the Investment
Social capital is becoming economic capital
The Atlantic, 2021
The biggest problem with remote work
Companies need a new kind of middle manager: The synchronizer.
The Atlantic, 2022
Lessons from 19 Years in the Metaverse
A conversation with one of the few people who have real historical perspective on digital communities
The Atlantic, 2022
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
The Atlantic, 2014
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.
The Atlantic, 2021
The Myth of "Learning Styles"
A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked.
The Atlantic, 2018
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.
The Atlantic, 2018
The Coming Software Apocalypse
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code – before catastrophe strikes.
The Atlantic, 2017
Globalization Doesn’t Make As Much Sense As It Used To
Since its founding, America has swung from protectionism to free trade. What’s next?
The Atlantic, 2016
The Binge Breaker
Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He's determined to make it stop.
The Atlantic, 2016
The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake
Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment.
The Atlantic, 2022
The Internet Is Rotting
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
The Atlantic, 2021
The Panopticon Is Already Here
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control – and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
The Atlantic, 2020
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.
The Atlantic, 2020
Capitalism’s Addiction Problem
The biggest, best-known companies in the digital economy are getting their users hooked on their products — and undermining the pillars of America’s market economy.
The Atlantic, 2020
The Problem with HR
For 30 years, we’ve trusted human-resources departments to prevent and address workplace sexual harassment. How’s that working out?
The Atlantic, 2019
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.
The Atlantic, 2022
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The Atlantic, 2022
The Food War
The food shock of 2022 is not a good-news story. But our “bad” is less bad than ever before.
The Atlantic, 2022
The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This
Peddle misinformation. Cry “conspiracy” when no one else reports it. Repeat.
The Atlantic, 2020
Why America Is Afraid of TikTok
The company’s founder says in an interview that he wants it to be “a window” on the world. A Republican senator says it is a “Trojan horse.”
The Atlantic, 2020
What Big Tech Wants Out of the Pandemic
The firms are all too eager to help the government manage the coronavirus crisis.
The Atlantic, 2020
You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain.
The Atlantic, 2020
How Syria Came to This
A story of ethnic and sectarian conflict, international connivance, and above all civilian suffering
The Atlantic, 2018
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
The Atlantic, 2017
