Kaitlyn Tiffany
She is the co-author of On Nobody Famous: Guesting, Gossiping, Gallivanting. Before joining The Atlantic in 2019, Kaitlyn was a reporter for Vox’s consumer-culture vertical, The Goods. At The Atlantic, she writes about internet culture and technology.
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QuickHoney Meet Me in the Eternal City
Silicon Valley has always dreamed of building its own utopias. Who’s ready to move in?
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Co-opting of Twitter
The alternative to mainstream social media came from inside the house.
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Paul Windle A Christmas-in-July-in-December Party
Lizzie and Kaitlyn write about the last party of the year.
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GraphicaArtis / Getty I Spent $85 to Eat Breakfast With Santa
The best way to meet the big man
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Paul Windle Dinner Parties 101
Will a four-week online course turn us into certified party-hosting geniuses?
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock There Is No Good Way to Travel Anywhere in America
An Amtrak ride can go so, so wrong.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Huge Multistate Lawsuit Against Meta Isn’t Serious Enough
Attorneys general from 33 states filed a joint lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday, alleging that it deliberately addicts kids and teens to its products through “FOMO” and JoJo Siwa.
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Paul Windle A Haunting in Manhattan
Lizzie and Kaitlyn try to find ghosts, but all they see is Anderson Cooper’s apartment.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Said Khatib / … The War in Gaza Is Getting Remixed in Real Time
Unconfirmed atrocities are turning into memes.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: … A New Coca-Cola Flavor at the End of the World
Y3000, the latest Coke flavor, was purportedly made with the assistance of AI. What does it taste like?
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Paul Windle A Little Bit O’ Magic in Chicago
You’ve heard of Chicago-style pizza and Chicago-style hot dogs, but what about Chicago-style magic?
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Illustration by Jared Bartman / The Atlantic. Source: … Why Go With an Evil-Looking Orb?
The controversial crypto project Worldcoin asks people to look into a shiny orb to have their irises scanned. It’s a bit on the nose.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. How Telling People to Die Became Normal
Merciless trolling is a fact of online life that may never go away.
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Illustration by The Atlantic Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole
The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … ‘Subliminals’ Have a Power No Teen Can Explain
Short YouTube videos promise to change your hair color … and straighten your nose … and turn you into a soccer star.
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Paul Windle Talking to Strangers About the Book of the Summer
Lizzie and Kaitlyn attend a sold-out, Friday night, after-hours book club.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic So Maybe Facebook Didn’t Ruin Politics
Large-scale experiments on social media, run behind the scenes during the 2020 election, suggest there is no simple fix for American democracy.
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Paul Windle What’s More ‘Indie Sleaze’ Than Turning 31?
The semi-ironic theme party is a delicate art.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … We’re in a Golden Age of Illegal Sports Streams
But why should anyone have to break the law to watch the Mets?
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … Everyone Has ‘Car Brain’
Online communities dedicated to criticizing cars and the people who love them have developed an insult that … kind of makes sense.
