Work in Progress
Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.
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Illustration by Nicolas Ortega The Job Market Is Frozen
Unemployment is low, but workers aren’t quitting and businesses aren’t hiring. What’s going on?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. America’s ‘Marriage Material’ Shortage
Adults are significantly less likely to be married or to live with a partner than they used to be.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. DeepSeek’s Chatbot Has an Important Message
The Chinese app has already hit the chipmaker giant Nvidia’s share price, but its true potential could upend the whole AI business model.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Most Important Breakthroughs of 2024
This year saw several advancements across medicine, space technology, and AI that extend our knowledge in consequential ways.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Gina Ferazzi … Why Democrats Got the Politics of Immigration So Wrong for So Long
They spent more than a decade tacking left on the issue to win Latino votes. It may have cost them the White House—twice.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Kevin Dietsch / … RFK Jr. Is a Bellwether
Kennedy embodies several trends across politics, science, and society, which require careful attention to understand how America is changing
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Three Pillars of the Bro-Economy
Day-trading, sports betting, and crypto are about to get bigger.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Sources: … The Cost-of-Living Crisis Explains Everything
The economy under Biden looked good but felt bad.
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Getty America’s Class Politics Have Turned Upside Down
Why do so many liberals vote against their economic self-interest?
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Matt Black / Magnum Blue States Gave Trump and Vance an Opening
How housing scarcity fuels the illiberal right
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Truth About Immigration and the American Worker
In many domains, the conventional wisdom among progressives is mistaken, oversimplified, or based on wishful thinking. The economics of immigration is not one of them.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. We Need Supply-Side Education Policy
Eliminating degree requirements for jobs is very popular with voters but would do almost nothing to help workers who don’t have a college diploma.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. Did the Fed Wait Too Long to Act?
America has officially defeated inflation without experiencing a recession—yet.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani The YIMBYs Won Over the Democrats
A niche pro-housing movement has convinced mainstream Democrats of the need to build.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani When the Bitcoin Scammers Came for Me
Lonely Americans are thirsty for companionship and hungry for money.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … The New Law of Electoral Politics
Can Kamala Harris break the global incumbency curse?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Brandon Bell / … The Truth About High Prices
The White House simply does not have great tools to bring the cost of living under control.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Get Ready for Tesla Cops
Police officers are falling in love with electric cars.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Urban Family Exodus Is a Warning for Progressives
In large urban metros, the number of children under 5 years old is in a free fall.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Gone Too Far
We got duped into believing that every device we own should charge like a phone.
