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Read our list of the top stories of 2024, including stories of disastrous cruises. A deeper dive into why Americans stop going out together. News about life-changing medical advances and more.
Your 2024 reading list
Crying myself to sleep on the biggest cruise ship ever
Seven painful nights aboard the Icon of the Seas
By Gary Steingart
Why did Americans suddenly stop going out?
Excessive loneliness is creating a social fitness crisis.
By Derek Thompson
Remember the DNA you gave 23andMe?
The company is experiencing problems. And anyone who spit into a company test tube should be concerned.
By Kristen V. Brown
The carry-on bag bubble is about to burst.
Planes aren’t built to carry this much luggage.
By Ian Bogost
The Golden Age of American Jewry is coming to an end.
Anti-Semitism on both the right and left threatens to end a period of unprecedented safety and prosperity for American Jews—and undermine the liberal order they helped build.
By Franklin Foer
Seventy miles in hell
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are now risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to make the journey through the jungle to the United States.
By Caitlin Dickerson
Trump: ‘I want generals like Hitler had’
The Republican nominee’s obsession with dictatorship and disdain for the American military runs deeper.
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Throw away your black plastic spatula.
It could be leaching chemicals into your cooking oil.
By Zoë Schlanger
The real reason people don’t have children
A need that government subsidies and better family policies cannot meet.
By Kristin Mba
End phone childhood now.
The environment in which children grow up today is hostile to human development.
By Jonathan Haidt
progress of Cystic-Fibrosis That changes everything
The disease used to guarantee early death. But new treatments are giving many patients the chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?
By Sarah Zhang
An elite college student who can’t read
To read in college Reading in high school will be helpful.
By Rose Horovich
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