Olga Khazan is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she covers health.
Employers are urging workers to stop smoking and lose weight, but many argue workplace wellness programs are ineffective—and can even hurt less-healthy employees. What's the proper role of an employer in facilitating a healthy lifestyle? More »
Hundreds of years ago, ignorance about decomposition and disease sparked fears that the dead returned to drink the blood of the living. More »
There are lots of skills—digital and otherwise—that aspiring writers need. More »
The faulty logic behind a popular theory More »
An ongoing debate about the quality of outsourced code prompts a look at the country’s precarious economic and educational picture. More »
Living in the rainforest and shooting arrows since childhood might be the perfect training for Rio 2016. More »
It's like writing copy about hair dryers, one comment-shop explains, "The only difference is that this hair dryer is a political one." More »
The odd restriction is as much cultural as religious. More »
(And yes, the U.S. is one of them.) More »
The legacy of apartheid, in technicolor More »
German voters aren’t blasted with angry rhetoric or pleas for political donations. Is that a good thing? More »
The Reader's Digest honest-cities survey is a farce, so stop making slideshows of it. More »
How Berlin's iconic Ampelmännchen were born, saved from destruction, and still matter today More »
Islamists are able to take advantage of porous borders, weak central governments, undertrained militaries, and flourishing drug trades. More »
The chancellor looks like she's headed for a third term. Here's why Germans love her. More »
Recent reports expose cracks in Bhutan's strategy of promoting contentment, not income. More »
The Russian president's language choice indicates his worry about Islamist extremists and the threats they pose to Russia. More »
Disagreement between the U.S. and Russia, the difficulty of cleaning up chemical weapons in a war zone, and other reasons Damascus's latest promise might not be fulfilled. More »
The administration is trying to sell intervention by invoking the successful 1999 NATO air raid, but the two conflicts are totally dissimilar. More »
