Health
DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest
[ad_1] When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for…
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Health
The ‘Unthinkable’ New Reality About Bedbugs
[ad_1] This article was originally published by Knowable Magazine. The stories have become horribly familiar: houses so overrun by bedbugs that the bloodsucking insects…
Health
‘Plant-Based’ Peanut Butter … And Shampoo … And Booze
[ad_1] Several years ago, I made a New Year’s resolution to eat more plants. Doing so, I assumed, would be better for my health,…
Politics
Trump’s Plan to Police Gender
[ad_1] After decades of gains in public acceptance, the LGBTQ community is confronting a climate in which political leaders are once again calling them…
Health
Pregnancy Can Change Your Shoe Size Forever
[ad_1] One night in July, a few weeks after my son was born, I lay awake, desperately scrolling through photos of injured feet. The…
Politics
A MAGA Judiciary
[ad_1] Thanks to Donald Trump’s presidential term, the conservative legal movement has been able to realize some of its wildest dreams: overturning the constitutional…
Politics
Loyalists, Lapdogs, and Cronies
[ad_1] When Donald Trump first took office, he put a premium on what he called “central casting” hires—people with impressive résumés who matched his…
Politics
Why the Fifth Circuit Keeps Making Such Outlandish Decisions
[ad_1] Where to even start in cataloging the most ridiculous—and alarming—recent rulings to come out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth…
Health
Hospitals Have Gotten Too Nice
[ad_1] The last time I stepped on a plane for vacation, for fun, was more than three years ago. I haven’t been able to…
Health
The Other Group of Viruses That Could Cause the Next Pandemic
[ad_1] Whether it begins next week, next year, or next decade, another pandemic is on its way. Researchers can’t predict precisely when or how…
Health
The NBA Is Harder Now
[ad_1] Whatever basketball’s blue-collar bona fides, whatever its associations with the barbershop and the neighborhood blacktop, its culture has proved hostile to at least…
Health
An Unusual Theory Suggests That Sex Helps the Body Tolerate a Fetus
[ad_1] In the early 1990s, while studying preeclampsia in Guadeloupe, Pierre-Yves Robillard hit upon a realization that seemed to shake the foundations of his…
Health
Where End-of-Life Care Falls Short
[ad_1] This article originally appeared in Undark Magazine. When Kevin E. Taylor became a pastor 22 years ago, he didn’t expect how often he’d…
Politics
What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
[ad_1] This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic,…
Politics
A Radical Idea for Fixing Congress
[ad_1] For most Americans, voting for a member of Congress is one of their simplest civic duties. Every two years, they pick the candidate…
Health
Your Phone Is a Mindfulness Trap
[ad_1] “Let’s travel now to moonlit valleys blanketed with heather,” Harry Styles says to me. The pop star’s voice—just shy of songful, velvet-dry—makes it…
Health
The Missing Piece of the Foraging Renaissance
[ad_1] Harvesting wild local produce in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park may not seem like the best idea. And yet, on a foraging tour of the…
Politics
Ron DeSantis’s Joyless Ride
[ad_1] Real-life Ron DeSantis was here, finally. In the fidgety flesh; in Iowa, South Carolina, and, in this case, New Hampshire. Not some distant…
Health
American Food Will Never Look Natural Again
[ad_1] In 1856, an amateur chemist named William Henry Perkin mixed a batch of chemicals that he hoped, in vain, would yield the malaria…
Politics
The Kyrsten Sinema Theory of American Politics
[ad_1] Kyrsten Sinema knows what everybody says about her. She pretends not to read the press coverage—“I don’t really care”—but she knows. She knows…