I wrote about @ShellenbergerMD, who is running for governor of California with the promise of solving the homelessness crisis theatlantic.com/politics/archi… Shellenberger's view, that the state should focus on drug treatment and building shelters, is in stark contrast to the most widely accepted policy in homelessness, called Housing First. Here's what the Housing First people think: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Last summer, I began an unusual experiment: To change my own personality theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… I started out with high neuroticism and low extraversion—both of which are correlated with unhappiness and poor health. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

I have a new story out with a poll from Leger showing that very few Americans have heard of Aid Access, Plan C, or other services that mail abortion pills theatlantic.com/politics/archi… This is bad, since this is officially the most hostile year for abortion rights since Roe theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

🚨I have a big story out about Counterweight, a support group of sorts for people who feel they are being forced to endorse social-justice ideology at work theatlantic.com/politics/archi… they provide moral support, therapy, and letter-writing for people who, say, want to opt out of diversity trainings or sharing their pronouns. As diversity trainings have 📈, so have calls to Counterweight theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Here's a pickle: Officials say to "talk to your doctor" if you have vaccination concerns. But some doctors are discouraging patients with unusual medical conditions from getting vaccinated. Vaccine experts say those doctors are wrong theatlantic.com/politics/archi… This is going to be a big issue with vaccine mandates. People will say "my doctor told me not to get vaccinated." And those people might be right! But it's possible they should have been vaccinated anyway.

I think we overstate how much people are unwilling to update their beliefs. There are so few things I’ve believed for my entire adult life. And even those things, I’d be willing to reconsider if there was strong evidence to the contrary I just think that this idea that people are immutable and set in their ways and you have to trick them into doing what you want is not really correct

🚨 I have a big new story I’m excited to share, about one very unusual nurse practitioner. A self-styled “Rock Doc,” he dreamed of starring in a reality show about his wild rock-and-roll lifestyle. Instead, he’s now at the center of an opioid bust theatlantic.com/health/archive… His patients loved him, saying he was the best doctor they’d ever had. But federal prosecutors say he exchanged opioids for sex, leading to addictions and possibly worse theatlantic.com/health/archive…

This is a terrible idea since so much traffic comes from Twitter and peoples' Twitter brands

https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1354062586149548034

I feel like media bosses try to have it both ways: "Be a voicey presence in the world!" and "Never say anything that might offend anyone!" Doing both at the same time is actually very hard! It is labor that benefits the employer.

NEW from me: I wrote about why you (or your parents) can't just get vaccinated in a doctors' office theatlantic.com/politics/archi… There's a few seemingly contradictory things going on: 1) long waiting lists for appointments 2) states seemingly not distributing all of the vaccine they've been allocated and 3) seniors hate the county websites where they have to register to vaccinated theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

It's fine if no one likes my book, but please pretty please, when it comes out, no one call me a "young writer" I just beg you to look up my college graduation year before you take one glance at my photo and decide how old I am

Soviet Russians celebrate Christmas on the 31st, but my family does so on the 25th like everyone else. Why? In Kindergarten I told some kids I was looking forward to Christmas “on the 31st” and they laughed and told me it was on the 25th

This is a pretty good example of how centrist/conservative Americans find medical charity to be heartwarming but leftist types see it as a sign of a systemic breakdown

https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1019612762845188096

I hear all the time from right-leaning doctors' groups that there's no need to expand Medicaid or w/e because there are charities that will fill in the gaps, and isn't that great. Meanwhile left-leaning think tanks find it scary to have to rely on charity for surgery.

A lot of people have been wondering about what happens if Roe is overturned. There have been a lot of coat-hanger jokes, etc. theatlantic.com/health/archive… But actually, more abortion restrictions will likely mean more abortions by mail, something that's already happening with surprising frequency and effectiveness. theatlantic.com/health/archive…