Would You Work in an Amazon Warehouse Just to Get Pregnant?

By the time Rebecca Bell applied for a job at Amazon, she was willing to do “literally anything” to get pregnant. The problem was money. After four miscarriages, she and her husband had already spent more than $10,000 on donor embryos, medication, and a few IVF transfers. Neither of their jobs⁠ — hers at FedEx, his in the military⁠ — offered insurance that covered the treatments she has needed since being diagnosed with PCOS, a hormonal condition that can lead to infertility. The couple even resorted to selling some of their stuff, like a chainsaw and a moped, to help with payments. Last fall, when a doctor suggested further testing that would cost yet more thousands of dollars, Bell knew she needed another solution.

We wish Sienna Miller would put her charming English cottage on Airbnb so we could spend a night doing The Holiday cosplay there. When we see Skip Hollandsworth’s byline, we click. Nice to know Jason Mamoa has a fallback career if being an actor doesn’t pan out. Another consequence of the Monkeypox outbreak: people with skin conditions are being stigmatized and targeted by social media vigilantes. Can we save democracy from the Supreme Court? If you’ve been in a reading rut, The Atlantic’s got 12 books to help you love reading again. A woman in Alaska avoided a ticket when she showed the cops who pulled her over a “white privilege card” instead of her license. And finally a book-to-TV adaption we’re excited about: Keanu Reeves will star in Hulu’s 8-part The Devil in the White City.

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