Parenting While Homeless

A profile of a family struggling to raise four kids in a Baltimore shelter.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 8, 2015
Length: 19 minutes (4,945 words)

When People—and Characters—Surprise You

Mary Gaitskill breaks down a moment in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Nov 4, 2015
Length: 7 minutes (1,907 words)

How Doctors Take Women’s Pain Less Seriously

A trip to the ER reveals the sexism inherent in emergency treatment.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Oct 15, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,553 words)

What Are Those Kids Doing With That Enormous Gun?

After a New York yuppie loses her iPhone in the Hamptons, pictures of a Yemeni family start showing up in her iCloud, offering her a strange keyhole into another world.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 22, 2015
Length: 18 minutes (4,620 words)

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

“Our carceral state banishes American citizens to a gray wasteland far beyond the promises and protections the government grants its other citizens. Banishment continues long after one’s actual time behind bars has ended, making housing and employment hard to secure. And banishment was not simply a well-intended response to rising crime. It was the method by which we chose to address the problems that preoccupied [Daniel Patrick] Moynihan, problems resulting from ‘three centuries of sometimes unimaginable mistreatment.'”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 14, 2015
Length: 75 minutes (18,800 words)

‘Born to Run’ and the Decline of the American Dream

How Bruce Springsteen’s breakout album captured the decline of the American Dream and embodied “the lost ’70s.”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Aug 24, 2015
Length: 13 minutes (3,350 words)

Why I Put My Wife’s Career First

Moravcsik, who is married to Anne-Marie Slaughter, writes about the challenges and benefits of being the “lead parent” for their two sons.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Sep 10, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,705 words)

The Crimes of Children

Children who commit crimes and enter the U.S. juvenile justice system often find themselves dealing with collateral consequences that affect them for the rest of their lives.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Aug 10, 2015
Length: 26 minutes (6,549 words)

Why Aren’t There More Women Futurists?

The academic study of potential futures has traditionally focused on inventions and technology, less on politics and social dynamics. As a result, it has stayed a predominantly white, male field — but the status quo might be starting to shift.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jul 31, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,697 words)

The Doctors Whose Patients Are Already Dead

Rachel Wilkinson goes inside an autopsy lab to understand the process—and the emotional rewards of medicine’s most-maligned specialty.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jul 14, 2015
Length: 19 minutes (4,772 words)