Part of the Future of Work issue of The Highlight , our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. “I don’t have goals. I don’t have ambition. I only want to be attractive.” This apathetic dec
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If you care about a creative practice, my guess is that you’ve already seen Peter Jackson’s new Beatles movie. If not, go check it out. It’s a miracle that the movie exists at all. I mean, four of the
This January, a 57-year-old man in Baltimore received a heart transplant from a pig. Xenotransplantation involves using nonhuman animals as sources of organs for humans. While the idea of using nonhum
A few years ago, I had a Eureka! moment with CSS. Up until that moment, I had been learning CSS by focusing on the properties and values we write, things like z-index: 10 or justify-content: center .
Julia Baum , a marine biologist at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, has been researching climate-threatened coral reefs for years. But recently she decided to make a change. “I’ve real
Imagine that you could lose weight without going on a diet. Imagine that you could repair your broken relationship with food, with hunger, with your own skin, and in the process shed those 10 pounds y
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Elon Musk at a February 2022 press conference in Texas. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Whizy Kim is a reporter covering how the world's wealthiest people wield influence, including the policies and c
A new report from WWF lays out the evidence for how forests directly impact public health. Forests not only act as reservoirs for potentially contagious diseases, but also filter water and air polluti
W hile working as a curatorial assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, Eli Wyman learned about a very unusual bee that was presumed to be extinct. The bee, Megachile pluto , also known as
In the context of user interfaces, "scrolling" refers to the vertical or horizontal shifting of content across a display. So if you're playing a side-scroller video game like old-school Nintendo offer
Part of our series on America’s struggle for forgiveness . The state of modern outrage is a cycle: We wake up mad, we go to bed mad, and in between, the only thing that might change is what’s making u
MO’OREA, French Polynesia. Titouan Bernicot was 16 when he had an epiphany: Everything he loved about living on an island in the South Pacific was tied to coral reefs. Titouan Bernicot [Photo: Ryan Bo
I n a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air, women will emerge spinning Technicolor hula hoops, and a mechanical bull will rev into action, bu
L ess than a week into the war, it seems increasingly likely that Vladimir Putin is heading towards a historic defeat. He may win all the battles but still lose the war. Putin’s dream of rebuilding th
In describing Vladimir Putin and his inner circle, I have often thought of a remark by John Maynard Keynes about Georges Clemenceau, French prime minister during the first world war: that he was an ut
Brian Barker was living in Portland, Oregon, with a well-paying union job as a spokesperson for the fire department. But despite having “a job you don’t leave”—he had an itch. “I wanted to go live in
I’ve been writing about money for almost eleven years now, and in that time the world has become an immensely richer place. Here in the US, our economy has grown by about 25% even after inflation, wor
Days, months, and years all make sense as units of time—they match up, at least roughly, with the revolutions of Earth, the moon, and the sun. Weeks, however, are much weirder and clunkier. A duration
Credit... Rafael Pavarotti for The New York Times The Great Read Pedro Almodóvar Is Still Making Movies That Shock He built his reputation with raunchy farces. But in his new film, “Parallel Mothers,”
Full-text audio version of this essay. In 1995, environmental historian William Cronon published “The Trouble With Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” In it, he critiques the Western co
One thing that’s hard to grasp about the climate crisis is that big changes can happen fast. In 2019 , I was aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer , a 308-foot-long scientific research vessel, cruising in fr
These days so much of my free time is booked with calls to explain to people outside the software industry why crypto assets are such a destructive force and why I support forceful regulation to halt
1. Rhapsody in Blue For all the complex techniques required to succeed, the objective is remarkably simple: Go as deep as you can go on one breath and return to the surface without passing out or dyin
This article appears in the November/December 2021 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here . The first thing you should know about Caroline Potts of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is that sh
In Louisiana, Hurricane Ida made landfall on Sunday , devastating communities with 150-mile-per-hour winds and towering storm surges . And in California, the Caldor Fire, which has burned 320 square m
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This article was published online on August 9, 2021. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday thr
A year ago, in the middle of the night, crashes of thunderbolts shook millions of people in the San Francisco Bay Area out of their sleep. They didn’t know history was about to happen. A storm swept o
Photo from Putzodiac/Getty Images . "Clear writing is clear thinking." My 10th-grade English teacher shared that morsel of wisdom once as I was slogging through a 20-page term paper with no idea where
Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and audiobooks—i.
Apple, in a statement to MacRumors (and other media outlets), regarding South Korea’s just-passed “Google power-abuse-prevention law” which will forbid Apple and Google from requiring the use of their
A t Oktyabrskaya metro station, in Moscow, a towering bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin glares along Krymsky Val Boulevard toward Gorky Park. Below Lenin’s feet, among the proletariat entourage, a sculp
Does my name belong to me? Does my face? What about my life? My story? Why is my name used to refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions again and again because others continue to p
JÖRN HELBERT was standing outside a stranger’s apartment in the north end of Berlin with a bouquet of yellow roses. It was June 2020, and the woman behind the door was in mandatory quarantine. She had
The Social Life of Forests Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another? By Ferris Jabr Photographs by Brendan George Ko As
Up the slow rise of a country road, in the shadow of an oak tree, one of the oldest gravestones in the Yamhill Carlton Pioneer Memorial Cemetery lies flat against the wet green earth. Until his death
A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appe
What’s at the root of modern American consumerism? It might not just be competition among the brands trying to sell us things, but also competition among ourselves. An easy story to tell is that marke