And make single moms pay for it.

Infant care is incredibly expensive to provide. But one solution could reduce the burden on both states and parents.

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

At summer camp, the kids may be far from home, but technology is keeping many moms and dads tethered to them—and anxious.

The term assumes that adding a child to a family is for the best. But that’s not always the case.

The mechanics of many games on the platform are nearly identical to those of slot machines and sports-betting apps.

The manosphere’s campaign strategy

Train Dog is the meme of the summer.

Athletes at the Enhanced Games were bigger—but not exactly better.

Some 21,000 of you will be diagnosed this year with ovarian cancer. Here’s what I wish I had known.

The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.

With the rise of screen culture, all the world has stage fright.

Strength, courage, expertise, wonder: NASA’s moon-mission crew has reset the bar for greatness.

Immigration officers are making arrests in sensitive locations, including family court.

And very wrong

When a man is with other men, why does he lose his moral compass so reliably?

“The Pitt,” “Severance,” “Sinners,” you name it: For some reason, the more popular something is, the more likely I am to resist it.

Age gaps, swag gaps, woke gaps—where does it end?

The world would be unimaginably different

On Netflix’s hit dating show, the villain edit is out; the villain twist is in.

They may be struggling even more than young men.

Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

I thought I was okay, until I started watching musicals with my daughter—and couldn’t stop crying.

A growing body of research shows how longer travel times affect moms’ ability to work.

I’m used to responding to sudden tragedies, but not ones this personal.

What happens when spouses accuse each other of gaslighting? Nothing good.

Employer ghosting is on the rise. Now candidates are punching back.

Cabbage is the better Thanksgiving option.

This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.

A new AI tool promises to improve social interactions but instead makes them worse.

What began as a form of religious expression has morphed into a brand-a-palooza.

What we lose when casual nudity disappears

America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but, sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.

A reader keeps having to leave unsupportive support groups. And James Parker says goodbye to his column.

Hovering moms and dads are following their kids all the way to campus.

The director’s collaborations with the Nazi government translated Hitler’s ideas to film, almost verbatim.

We’ve become a nation of order-inners. Eating will never be the same.

Here was a dreamy little crime in which no one really got hurt.

Where commentary on parental satisfaction goes wrong

In times of mass atrocity, processing personal sorrow becomes more complicated.

Pay grandparents.

Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

Social media should have killed them. Instead, they’re popular again.

Want rule of law? That’s premium.

And the new explanation for why marriage rates are falling

I’m 19, and I’ve fallen deeply for a colleague. But he’ll never feel the same.

Some focus on reaching their children in an emergency—and overlook the devices’ everyday threats.

For some men, fatherhood is an answer to questions about modern masculinity.