Spend time with stories about the bizarre relationship of a “work wife” and a “work husband,” the great cousin decline, and more. |
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| Families are shrinking. But the weirdest family role is a vital one. (From 2023) | |
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| | (Illustration by Derek Abella) | | | |
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| I’ve never owned the device, and I’m not sure I ever want to. | |
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| | (Gabriela Pesqueira / The Atlantic) | | | |
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| One of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner. (From 2022) | |
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| The work marriage is a strange response to our anxieties about mixed-gender friendships, heightened by the norms of a professional environment. (From 2023) | |
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| The research on what smoke does to a body is just beginning. | |
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| | (Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz) | | | |
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