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Olga Khazan

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 4, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
Top 10K sites
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Jul 17, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Olga Khazan

    The Dark Side of Mindfulness (opens the original)

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    This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 2004, Willoughby Britton, then a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the University of Arizona, began recruiting participants for a study that, she felt sure, would show meditation improves sleep. Britton, a meditation teacher, was so devoted to the practice that she saw herself as a “double agent,” someone who uses science to promote meditation. Although she had grown up in a nonpracticing Epis

  2. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Olga Khazan

    The Singular Triumph of Driving Down Peanut Allergies (opens the original)

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    In 2015, The New England Journal of Medicine published a major study showing that feeding babies peanut products significantly lowered their risk of developing peanut allergies. The findings contradicted advice that the American Academy of Pediatrics had issued previously, which said that peanuts, along with other nuts and fish, should not be introduced until children are at least 3. Based on the study—called the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy, or LEAP, trial—the AAP quickly revised its gui

  3. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Olga Khazan

    Another Big Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives (opens the original)

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    When some Taylor Swift fans listened to the lyrics of her 2025 song “Wi$h Li$t,” in which she sings about yearning to “settle down” with “a couple kids,” they heard a Republican dog whistle. On social media, they claimed that Swift’s desire for family life was “a conservative agenda on a silver platter.” Swift, an avowed feminist who has endorsed Democratic political candidates, almost certainly did not set out to make “tradwife propaganda.” But her online critics are getting at something real:

  4. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Olga Khazan

    Where Has All the Testosterone Gone? (opens the original)

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    This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The Trump administration seems to harbor a hulking obsession with testosterone. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once claimed that the president’s testosterone levels are unusually high for a man of his age, and Kennedy is known to take a supplementary dose of the male sex hormone himself. In April, the FDA moved to expand access to testosterone-replacement therapy for greater numbers of men. And last

  5. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Olga Khazan

    The Best Parenting Hack Is Being Rich (opens the original)

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    This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. A news flash that won’t surprise anyone: Screen time is bad for young kids. The latest such reminder came from a systematic review conducted by a consortium of British researchers, who found that more screen exposure for toddlers is consistently associated with less interaction between the parent and child, as well as delayed development, sleep issues, and eating problems. The authors determined that childr

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