The Atlantic Summaries and Reviews
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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
End the Phone-Based Childhood Now
The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development.
The Atlantic, 2024
The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake
Real estate should be treated as consumption, not investment.
The Atlantic, 2022
The Happiest Way to Change Jobs
How to rock your work rather than let the work rule you
The Atlantic, 2023
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
Make Yourself Happy: Be Kind
How to break the negative feedback loop that can make us act mean
The Atlantic, 2023
What Happens When You’re the Investment
Social capital is becoming economic capital
The Atlantic, 2021
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
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
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 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 Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
The Atlantic, 2021
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
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
The Atlantic, 2021
The Internet Is Rotting
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
The Atlantic, 2021
Why Dead Trees Are ‘the Hottest Commodity on the Planet’
Blame climate change, wildfires, hungry beetles … and Millennial home buyers.
The Atlantic, 2021
How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
The Atlantic, 2020
The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy
If public-opinion data are unreliable, we’re all flying blind.
The Atlantic, 2020
Why Every City Feels the Same Now
Glass-and-steel monoliths replaced local architecture. It’s not too late to go back.
The Atlantic, 2020
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.
The Atlantic, 2020
The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You This
Peddle misinformation. Cry “conspiracy” when no one else reports it. Repeat.
The Atlantic, 2020
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