The Atlantic Summaries and Reviews

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9 Article

End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.
Jonathan Haidt
The Atlantic, 2024
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
9 Article

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.
Christopher Beam
The Atlantic, 2024
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
Olga Khazan
The Atlantic, 2021
9 Article

The Price of Privacy

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

Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids

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

What Happens When You’re the Investment

Social capital is becoming economic capital
Rex Woodbury
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
8 Article
Jerry Useem
The Atlantic, 2017
9 Article

The biggest problem with remote work

Companies need a new kind of middle manager: The synchronizer.
Derek Thompson
The Atlantic, 2022
8 Article
Joe Pinsker
The Atlantic, 2021
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
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Atlantic, 2015
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

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
Stephanie H. Murray
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article
Rachel Gutman
The Atlantic, 2021
7 Article
Henry Kissinger
The Atlantic, 2018
8 Article

The Coming Software Apocalypse

A small group of programmers wants to change how we code – before catastrophe strikes.
James Somers
The Atlantic, 2017
7 Article

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?
Clyde Prestowitz
The Atlantic, 2016
8 Article

The Binge Breaker

Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He's determined to make it stop.
Bianca Bosker
The Atlantic, 2016
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 Internet Is Rotting

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
Jonathan Zittrain
The Atlantic, 2021
9 Article

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.
Ross Andersen
The Atlantic, 2020
8 Article

Why Everything Is Sold Out

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

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.”
MIchael Schuman
The Atlantic, 2020
8 Article

Time to Capitalize Black and White

Black and white are both historically created racial identities – and whatever rule applies to one should apply to the other.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Atlantic, 2020
9 Article

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.
Maya MacGuineas
The Atlantic, 2020
7 Article

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?
Caitlin Flanagan
The Atlantic, 2019
7 Video
Taylor Lorenz
The Atlantic, 2019
7 Video
Jackie Lay
The Atlantic, 2019
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
8 Video

Income Without Work

The Future of Work Summit
Scott Santens and Steve Clemons
The Atlantic, 2016
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
Jonathan Haidt
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
9 Article
Ed Zitron
The Atlantic, 2021
8 Article
Deborah Fallows
The Atlantic, 2021
7 Article

The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back

The US has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
Alexis C. Madrigal and Robinson Meyer
The Atlantic, 2020
8 Article

The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This

Peddle misinformation. Cry “conspiracy” when no one else reports it. Repeat.
Helen Lewis
The Atlantic, 2020
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
9 Article
Helen Lewis
The Atlantic, 2020
9 Article

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.
James Hamblin
The Atlantic, 2020
8 Article

How Syria Came to This

A story of ethnic and sectarian conflict, international connivance, and above all civilian suffering
Andrew Tabler
The Atlantic, 2018
8 Article
Jean M. Twenge
The Atlantic, 2017