Work in Progress
Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Great Normalization
Last year, the crime and inflation crises largely evaporated. So did the leading theories about what had caused them.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic The Nine Breakthroughs of the Year
CRISPR, GLP1s, and other advancements that astonished me
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Darrell Eager / Gallery Stock It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber
Test scores have been falling for years—even before the pandemic.
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The Atlantic How Anxiety Became Content
The way we commonly discuss mental-health issues, especially on the internet, isn’t helping us.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock What If Americans Are Happy at Work?
Persistent employment misery is a myth.
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Joel Saget / Getty The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing
Corporate governance is playing a starring role in the chaos unfolding inside the world’s most famous AI start-up.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The 1970s Economic Theory That Needs to Die
Turns out you can tame inflation without triggering a recession. Will the Federal Reserve accept the good news?
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty Why You Have to Care About These 12 Colleges
Change them, and you change America.
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty The Root Cause of the Homelessness Crisis
Researchers at UC San Francisco have released the largest representative survey of homeless people in more than 25 years.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … The Toyota Corolla Theory of College
Higher education risks becoming a cut-price assembly line. There’s a better way of producing good learning.
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Amir Hamja / Bloomberg / Getty The Next Crisis Will Start With Empty Office Buildings
Commercial real estate is losing value fast.
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Illustration By Erik Carter / The Atlantic. Source: … What Does Sentience Really Mean?
The fact that AI isn’t alive doesn’t mean it can’t be sentient, the sociologist Jacy Reese Anthis argues.
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James Leynse / Corbis / Getty The GOP’s Unworkable Work Requirements
House Republicans have voted to make benefits even more conditional. All that can achieve is turning down legitimately eligible recipients.
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic AI Is a Waste of Time
The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. America Fails the Civilization Test
The average American my age is roughly six times more likely to die in the coming year than his counterpart in Switzerland.
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Illustration by the Atlantic; Getty The Dangerous Rise of ‘Front-Yard Politics’
Many public crusaders are private reactionaries.
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Brian Finke / Gallery Stock Why Americans Care About Work So Much
Workism is rooted in the belief that employment can provide everything we have historically expected from organized religion.
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Illustration by Matt Chase / The Atlantic Click Here If You Want to Be Sad
The internet loves bad news. And that’s bad.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Why All the ChatGPT Predictions Are Bogus
And why the makers of AI should learn from the tale of Prometheus
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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: … The End of Silicon Valley Bank—And a Silicon Valley Myth
We are still learning exactly how much of this industry’s genius was a mere LIRP, or low-interest-rate phenomenon.
