Annie Lowrey
She is the author of Give People Money, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Prior to joining The Atlantic, she was a staff writer for The New York Times and New York magazine, as well as the Moneybox columnist for Slate. At The Atlantic, she writes about the economy and politics.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani Why Did Cars Get So Expensive?
The cost of insurance is up 40 percent over the past two years.
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Justin Maxon for The Atlantic The Truth About Organic Milk
Cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Case for Spending Way More on Babies
Why America should give kids cash
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Philip Fong / Getty LEDs Change Everything
Why so many gardens and museums are lit up like Burning Man at night
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Lalo de Almeida / Folhapress / Panos / … Why Isn’t the Government Doing More About the Housing Crisis?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development should consider doing some housing and urban development.
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Courtesy of Fu Meng / Art Labor Gallery Inflation Is Your Fault
If people are so mad about high prices, why do they keep buying so many expensive things?
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. It Will Never Be a Good Time to Buy a House
Maybe in 2030?
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Maybe Don’t Drive Into Manhattan
The real cost of all this traffic
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Bruce Davidson / Magnum The New Meaning of Tattoos
Tattoo removal is changing the culture of ink.
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© Lee Friedlander, courtesy of Eakins Press Foundation … A Portrait of American Housing
Lee Friedlander’s photographs of beauty queens and real estate
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Illustration by Ben Hickey The Annoyance Economy
Data alone don’t capture how frustrating and stressful it is to be a consumer right now.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty If You’re Worried About the Climate, Move Your Money
How you consume matters to the planet. How you invest does too.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Mario Tama / … What Really Took Down Airbnb
It wasn’t the government; it was the housing market.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty Is Single Parenthood the Problem?
If so, should the government try to fix it?
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Brandon Tauszik for The Atlantic Radical Vegans Are Trying to Change Your Diet
The impossible fight to persuade people to stop eating meat
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Illustration by Jared Bartman / The Atlantic. Source: … New York Is Full
And it’s the housing market’s fault.
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The Atlantic / Getty Right Price, Wrong Politics
People want to live in states with access to abortion care. They just can’t afford to.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Anti-California
How Montana performed a housing miracle
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty Why You Have to Care About These 12 Colleges
Change them, and you change America.
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Illustration by Ben Hickey The Wrong-Apartment Problem
Why a good economy feels so bad
