A lovely and funny piece by Gisela Salim-Peyer about why the Olympics appeal to women who, like her, otherwise hate sports: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Ever since the polygraph, the history of lie-detection technology has been one pseudoscientific breakthrough after another. Will artificial intelligence be any different? Read Chris Beam on the state of the art thus far: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"Unsporty eggheads like me don’t care about non-Olympic sports, regardless of the sex of the participants. For me, the WNBA holds no more appeal than the NBA. So what do I see in the Olympics?"

Being Chris's editor on this article was fun because I got to egg him on to potentially torpedo his relationship with his own mother theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Trash talk, snubbed handshakes, crotch kicks, sideline meltdowns. Are we getting worse at losing? theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

In a few recent polls, Kamala Harris's lead over Trump grows by several points when RFK Jr. is included. Seems like a big deal. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

I need to see the Venn diagram of people who are old enough to care about Obama's speech and people who are young enough to stay awake until midnight

Read Paul Farhi on the cutting-edge new communication platform reshaping the election (it's the teevee): theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Regular people hate price gouging. Economists say it's fine—good, even. Could the economists be (gulp) .... wrong? Zephyr Teachout investigates theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

In 2020, one leading pollster told me, it wasn't uncommon for folks to say, "I’m voting for Trump—fuck you,” then hang up without finishing the poll. Here's how the industry is trying to avoid underestimating Trump support for the third time in a row: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"Still, much of the nation’s housing shortage has little to do with a lack of high-density housing in cities. It’s also that builders aren’t putting up suburban subdivisions at the rate they once did." nytimes.com/2024/08/22/bus…

Wrapping up price-gouging week here at the Atlantic, we have Scott Lincicome arguing that if politicians really want to make food cheaper, they'll target the protectionist regulations that prop up prices: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

1. I’ve spent the past several years trying to solve a riddle: Why has America ceased to be a land of opportunity for so many of its people? The answer, I’ve come to believe, is that we’re STUCK: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700580/s…

I wrote about marijuana potency (too high), the illusion of choice at the dispensary, and what to do about it. For The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“Thirty percent THC is the new 20 percent. Our target buyer is the guy who just worked 40 hours a week and wants to get high as fuck on a budget.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Sorry so is it good or bad for the owner of a tech platform to be in the tank for one political party, I'm having trouble keeping track

My piece in The Atlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…