Health
Declaring Addiction a Health Crisis Could Change Criminal Justice
The surgeon general’s new approach on substance abuse has policy implications for law enforcement.
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Bogdan Cristel / Reuters Why Some Flus Are Deadliest in Young Adults
The first flu you get matters for the rest of your life.
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Lisi Niesner / Reuters Surprise! British Red Squirrels Carry Leprosy
Some of them harbor strains that infected medieval Europeans, but that have been eradicated on the U.K. mainland for centuries.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters Everything You Need to Know About the Zika Virus
A comprehensive guide to The Atlantic’s ongoing coverage of the outbreak
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters A New Test of Pot's Potential to Replace Painkillers
After two years of bureaucratic hurdles, the first study to directly compare cannabis with an opioid drug is about to begin.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Christians Overwhelmingly Backed Trump
Despite predictions to the contrary, Trump won among conservative women and evangelicals. Abortion may have been a major factor.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters How Obamacare Helped Trump
The health law’s unpopularity might help explain why so many upper-middle-class people voted for the Republican.
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Conflicted About Having Kids: Your Thoughts
Many of you have responded to Olga’s call for stories about why you decided to have kids or not. One…
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Cuba's Innovative Cancer Vaccine Is Finally Coming to America
The country has a whole arsenal of unique drugs locked behind the U.S. embargo.
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How Sexist Speech Impacts Stress and Self-Esteem
Hearing discriminatory comments changes how people think.
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Daniel Garcia / AFP /Getty Why Morning People Thrive
Some neuroscientists are trying to change school and work hours that discriminate against night owls.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Lasting Harm of Trump-Style Sexism
The Republican nominee has dismissed his misogynist speech as “just words.” But multiple studies show rude rhetoric can have a major impact on thinking, stress, and self-esteem.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Cognitive Benefits of Being a Man-Child
For men and women, extending adolescence has the potential to make the brain more capable in adulthood.
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Mayte Torres / Getty Most Babies Don’t Need Breathing Monitors
There’s no real evidence that consumer devices keep infants safer, and doctors say “peace of mind” isn’t a good enough reason to buy them.
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National ... How Ebola Adapted to Us
During the recent record-breaking outbreak, the virus picked up a mutation that made it better at infecting human cells.
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Jaelynn Castillo / Shutterstock / Katie Martin A Diary of Toxic Love
He said she was oversensitive. She said his constant criticism was tantamount to emotional abuse.
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters The Preschooler's Empathy Void
A new study explores how children develop a preference for equality and fairness—research that seems relevant as America prepares to elect its next president.
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Adopting an Embryo
Here’s a very rare experience that we haven’t seen in our reader series yet: embryo adoption. It’s a middle ground…
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Matt Rourke / AP Trump's Health Plan: Pay Your Own Medical Bills Using Money You Saved
The candidate called a special “meeting” to discuss the future of medicine. Here’s how that went.
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Spike Mafford / Getty Why Some Women Still Can't Get Birth Control
Even after Obamacare, millions of women are uninsured and live in counties with few family-planning clinics.
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Jerry Mosey / AP The Different Stakes of Male and Female Birth Control
A clinical trial of contraceptives for men was halted because of side effects—side effects that women have dealt with for decades.
