Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic The Best Week of Summer in D.C.
Seeing in person what TV dulls or conceals
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Eric Gay / AP A New Planned Parenthood Video and More Outrage
In the footage, secretly recorded by an anti-abortion-rights group, an official from the organization discusses the procurement and cost of intact fetuses.
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Dominick Reuter / Reuters Two Stories That Are Shaping the Abortion Debate
An activist group is trying to discredit Planned Parenthood with covertly recorded videos even as contraception advocates are touting a method that sharply reduces unwanted pregnancies.
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Reed Saxon / AP A Rare Red-State Accord for More Voter Access
Voting-rights groups and Republican-led Oklahoma reached a settlement that could help get more people to the polls.
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Reuters Why James Holmes Is a Step Closer to Facing the Death Penalty
A Colorado jury moved to the third and final phase of sentencing, keeping capital punishment on the table for the convicted Aurora theater shooter.
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US Naval War College Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide: Some Thoughts From the Military Side
What does a nation owe its military? An audience at the Naval War College has a few ideas.
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David Goldman / AP Between the World and Me Book Club: Not Trying to Get Into Heaven
In departing from the religious rhetoric of hope and focusing on the “struggle,” Ta-Nehisi Coates retains the ability to relate to his multiple audiences.
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James Fallows A Summer Dispatch From the United States of Beer
August evenings are for baseball, and for appreciation of our nation’s brewing greatness.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic An Innovative Library in Oregon, and Other Reports From the Road
Kicking off reports from the inland Northwest, plus a happy birthday to James Baldwin
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Photos Deborah Fallows A Library of Good Ideas
Formula for success in Central Oregon: know the users, spot the opportunities, act with vigor.
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Lee Celano / Reuters Between the World and Me: Saving the Next Generation
Why America’s inner-city youth need not inherit all of the burdens of the past
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AP Prince Edward County's Long Shadow of Segregation
50 years after closing its schools to fight racial integration, a Virginia county still feels the effects.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters What Lindsey Graham Fails to Understand About a War Against Iran
A hawkish senator doesn't apply the lessons of Iraq
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Between the World and Me: A Journey, Not a Vacation
A memoir connects with readers in a way that allows them to discover the emotional trial of raising a black son.
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John Minchillo / AP Between the World and Me Book Club: More of Your Critical Thoughts
Readers continue to debate Ta-Nehisi Coates's bestseller. Will the book’s bleak outlook make people less motivated to fight injustice?
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Hamilton County Prosecutor How One Campus Cop Undid a City's Police Reforms
Samuel DuBose’s death at the hands of a university police officer points to problems with piecemeal approaches to reform.
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Wikimedia What an F-16 Pilot Sees—and Misses
Two experienced fighter pilots on suspending judgment about the latest aviation disaster, and the operating realities of the Air Force jet that rammed into a little civilian airplane
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Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation / Preservation Virginia A Skeleton, a Catholic Relic, and a Mystery About American Origins
A newly discovered artifact buried with one of Jamestown’s most prominent leaders suggests he could have been a crypto-Catholic.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Is the Democratic Party Abandoning Jefferson and Jackson?
Connecticut, Missouri, and Georgia have dropped the slave-owning presidents from their annual fund-raising dinners, and many more states could follow suit.
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Jim Young / Reuters Between the World and Me: Black American Motherhood
The challenge of raising African American daughters in the Age of Ferguson
