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Staff writer at , where I cover families, parenting, and relationships

Washington, D.C.
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    7 Sep 2018

    If you're interested in keeping up with my stories, you can subscribe here to an email alert that'll tell you when I publish one:

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  2. Jan 27

    Why are boys messy? An investigation:

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  3. Jan 15

    Here's my attempt at a unified theory of the never-ending to-do list—featuring the modern economy, new technology-enabled tasks, and... illuminated dog collars

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  4. Jan 5

    On average, the Americans who've died from COVID-19 lived for about 13 fewer years than they likely would have otherwise. And many of them lost a lot more time than that. My latest in :

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  5. 15 Dec 2020

    My latest in is an attempt to make sense of what it was like to live through this deeply surreal year:

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  6. 11 Dec 2020

    .'s Friendship Files interviews are always good, but today's was particularly moving:

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  7. 24 Nov 2020

    My latest in is about all the babies that won't be born in 2021, and what these "missing" births mean for the U.S.'s population and demographics:

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  8. 22 Nov 2020

    If you're looking for something totally off the news, this 2009 piece by about the secretive world of food flavoring is fascinating:

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    18 Nov 2020

    For The Friendship Files, I’m looking to interview people who lost a friend to COVID-19 this year, as a way of memorializing friendships lost to the pandemic. If you’re interested, please email friendshipfiles@theatlantic.com and tell me about your friend

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  10. 17 Nov 2020

    "After an object changes hands, any guilt associated with taking it tends to conveniently fade." My latest in is about why people steal small things from their friends:

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  11. 9 Nov 2020

    "It’s hard to imagine a future Jeopardy host reading out clues without the same mix of seriousness, warmth, and flair, but it’s just as hard to imagine who, other than Trebek, could pull it off." My latest in :

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  12. 3 Nov 2020

    An American who reaches life expectancy lives through only 19 or 20 presidential elections. I wrote a little piece about how each one is a "temporal landmark" that shapes our perception of time passing:

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  13. 28 Oct 2020

    I interviewed 20+ voters and two political scientists to put together this guide for persuading a loved one to vote a certain way. Just in case anyone needs that right now. My latest in :

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  14. 22 Oct 2020

    In advance of tonight's debate, I asked some communication experts how they'd advise Biden to respond to Trump's interruptions. My latest in :

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  15. 13 Oct 2020

    As one epidemiologist I spoke with put it, "Thanksgiving makes me nervous." My latest in is a guide to thinking about the risks of the holiday season, for families and for the country overall:

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  16. Retweeted
    13 Oct 2020

    as someone wrestling with this decision myself, I found this piece extremely helpful!

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  17. 2 Oct 2020

    I asked misinformation/conspiracy experts if they thought Trump's diagnosis might get more people to take the pandemic seriously. They were pretty doubtful:

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  18. 30 Sep 2020

    Last night's debate was an incoherent mess. To try to make sense of it, I asked some therapists to analyze the awful communication habits that were on display:   

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    29 Sep 2020

    Absolutely beautiful little set of essays by on the children who desegregated America's schools, and the adults they are today

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  20. 23 Sep 2020

    When I asked a law professor this week for some concrete examples of how RBG changed everyday life, she said, "It’s not one thing that’s different—it’s everything." My latest in :

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    20 Sep 2020

    I really loved talking with about some of the child rearing strategies that produced burnout....and how millennial parents are beginning to reproduce those same strategies:

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