Ozempic or Bust
America has been trying to address the obesity epidemic for four decades now. So far, each new “solution” has failed to live up to its early promise.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Sources: Getty. The Great Honeybee Fallacy
For years, people have understood them to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite evidence to the contrary. Why?
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Bruno Barbey / Magnum The Absurdity of Believing China’s Great at Protecting Kids Online
Lawmakers have argued that the Chinese internet is better for kids. They’re wrong.
Evan Jenkins / Guardian / eyevine / Redux Steve Albini Was Proof You Can Change
To a certain kind of listener, it sometimes felt like he was the last honest musician in the industry.
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The Gordon Parks Foundation She Was No ‘Mammy’
Gordon Parks’s most famous photograph, American Gothic, was of a cleaning woman in Washington, D.C. She has a story to tell.
Markus Schreiber / AP The Stormy Daniels Testimony Spotlights Trump’s Misogyny
It’s not that Trump bore any malice toward Daniels; it’s that she mattered to him only as a vehicle to sex.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nic Antaya / Caitlin O'Hara / Anna Rose Layden / Getty. Trump’s Latest Abortion Position Is More Radical Than It Sounds
Trump would reenter office with broad authority to restrict abortion access. The only question is how much of it he’d use.
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The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.
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The Witches of Baltimore
Young black women are leaving Christianity and embracing African witchcraft in digital covens. (From 2018)
Mario Tama / Getty Can We Touch?
Physical contact remains vital to health, even as we do less of it. The rules of engagement aren’t necessarily changing—they’re just starting to be heard. (From 2019)
Richard Baker / Getty The President and the Press
“This crowd came in like an occupying army. They took over the White House like a stockade, and the Watergate, and screw everybody else. They have no sense that the government doesn’t belong to them, that it’s something they’re holding in trust for the people.” (From 1973)
Charles Tasnasi / AP Pasta
An inquiry into a few fundamental questions: How did spaghetti and meatballs, a dish no Italian recognizes, become so popular here? What makes some brands of pasta much better than others? What’s so special about fresh pasta? What do Italians know about cooking pasta that Americans don’t? (From 1986)
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