past decade

It’s been a rough few months for the technology industry. Stock prices have plummeted. Meta, Amazon, Google,…

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s…

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,…

For millions of Americans—especially those who don’t live in the high-income urban mega-economies—it feels like…

Five years ago, after Hurricane Irma pummeled Florida’s Gulf Coast, I rode a boat through the canals of Cape Coral,…

A few months ago, I got food poisoning. The sequence of events that led to my downfall began with a carton of…

Xi Jinping has never given a press conference. He is the head of China’s ruling Communist Party—a colossal,…

When Americans used to imagine life post-Roe, many seemed to believe that at the very least the country would agree…

When I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area 10 years ago, I bought a pair of rain boots. I’ve worn them once. The…

When I think of a sit-up, my mind flashes immediately to the (carpeted, for some reason) floor of my…