Derek Thompson
He is also the author of the books Hit Makers and On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity and the host of the podcast Plain English.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Adrian Ace Williams … The 67-Hour Rule
Married couples are working as much as ever.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust
Many Americans seem to have found no alternative method to build a sense of community.
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Brandon Bell / Getty America’s Magical Thinking About Housing
The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Hudzilla; Rowan Butler … America’s Loneliness Epidemic Comes for the Restaurant
The restaurant recovery is not a simple story of universally positive outcomes.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. How Happy Couples Argue
They don’t try to control each other. They try to control themselves.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Americans Who Need Chaos
They’re embracing nihilism and upending politics.
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Alec Soth / Magnum Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
Too much aloneness is creating a crisis of social fitness.
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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 How the Recession Doomers Got the U.S. Economy So Wrong
One year ago, experts were certain that America was headed for a recession. But the 2023 economy is historically strong. What happened?
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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.
