Jacob Stern
Can a Boxer Return to the Ring After Killing?
In 2019, Charles Conwell unintentionally ended Patrick Day’s life with his fists. Now he’s trying to make sense of his life, and boxing itself.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A Critic’s Case Against Cinema
Sixty years ago, Pauline Kael said that the movies were going to pieces. In a sense, she was right.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Carolyn Kaster / … Every Tech Company Wants to Be Like Boston Dynamics
America’s favorite robot company has perfected the art of freaking people out.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World
What’s your Elo rating?
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Getty The Most Hated Sound on Television
For half a century, viewers scorned the laugh track while adoring shows that used it. Now it has all but disappeared.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. Zyn Was 100 Years in the Making
Nicotine has been on a long journey to become candy.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Shutterstock. Of Course America Fell for Liquid Death
How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4 billion?
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The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Pfizer Couldn’t Pay for Marketing This Good
Well now we know what happens when someone gets 217 COVID shots.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. Did Apple Just Make a Gambling App?
The tech giant’s new sports tool shows scores, betting odds, and little else.
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Illustration by The Atlantic Your Phone Has Nothing on AM Radio
Why Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are teaming up to save the century-old technology
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. A Fake Yellow Line Changed Football Forever
You’ve been watching the Super Bowl in mixed reality for 25 years.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Tetra Images / … AI in Politics Is So Much Bigger Than Deepfakes
Presidential campaigns have long tailored their ads and emails to specific groups. Now any politician can.
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Getty Gummy Vitamins Are Just Candy
The false promise of sweet, chewy supplements
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb
The platform seeded its own content-moderation crisis.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora?
The tragedy of Q&A sites is the story of the internet.
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Photo-illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. America’s Most Dystopian Halftime Show
How college football turns student debt into a game show
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Cole Barash Ammon Bundy Has Disappeared
An anti-government extremist seemed on the verge of another standoff with the law. Then he vanished.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic* Online Betting Has Gone Off the Deep End
What are the odds this story wins a Pulitzer?
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … An Unsettling Hint at How Much Fraud Could Exist in Science
Two experts on dishonesty are separately accused of tampering with data for the same research paper. Has this ever happened before?
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … The Great PowerPoint Panic of 2003
Twenty years ago, corporate-presentation software was called “the end of reason.” Why?
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David Dee Delgado / Getty; John Tully / … ‘Things Don’t Always Change in a Nice, Gradual Way’
Climate change feels more real now than ever.
