Last call
Why are so many people in so many countries around the world drinking less? Tim Naimi on the spread of sobering research about alcohol’s adverse health effects, the tightening of economic pressures, and the myth of the moderate European drinker.
Help wanted
Why are millions more Americans turning to talk therapy—and sticking with it? Carlos Blanco on the decline of a stigma, a shift in health coverage, and the individualization of treatment.
Cultivated conflict
Why are American states banning lab-grown meat? Hanna Tuomisto on the technology, economics, and politics of a new industry.
Only connect
Why are Americans becoming so lonely? Milena Batanova on a problem U.S. officials have called an “epidemic.”
‘They’re everywhere’
Why are there so many toxic chemicals in food? Rashmi Joglekar on where they come from and what they’re doing to people and the planet.
American carnivores
Why are people in the United States eating record amounts of meat? Glynn Tonsor on a mysterious outlier trend in the Western world.
Addled
Why are people’s cognitive skills declining? Gloria Mark on how consumer technology is making us more error-prone, more stressed, and less productive.
Mother of exiles
A year after record increases in American homelessness, it’s now gone up even more—why? Dennis Culhane on the immigration crisis playing out in U.S. cities.
Staying alive
Why are fewer Americans dying of drug overdoses? Magdalena Cerdá on what we know and don’t know about the the U.S. opioid crisis’s fourth wave.
Note: How can you keep on moving
How can you keep on moving. It’s hard to read the news without reading something about a crisis; it
