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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Jeff Curry / USA Today The Hacking of America's Pastime
If employees of the St. Louis Cardinals broke into the Houston Astros player database, it would be a first-of-its-kind scandal for professional sports.
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Chip East / Reuters Reasonable Doubts About the Jury System
Trial consultants allow the affluent to manipulate the biases of those who judge them, putting justice up for sale.
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Jerry Mosey / AP How Contraception Transformed the American Family
The Supreme Court’s Griswold decision fifty years ago raised women’s incomes and expanded opportunities for their children.
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James Fallows Building for the Future, in California's Famously Failed City
The Los Angeles Times has a big, new demonstration of how bad things have gotten in the city of San Bernardino. Here’s a look at people doing their best, despite those odds.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters The Hacking of Federal Data Is Much Worse Than It First Seemed
Cyber-attacks linked to China appear to have resulted in the theft of security-clearance records with sensitive data about millions of American military and intelligence personnel.
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Brandon Wade / AP An Attack on Dallas Police Headquarters
A tense standoff ended on Saturday after a police building in Texas was hit with gunfire and authorities found explosives.
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Toby Melville / Reuters Is The New Whole Foods Label Better Than 'Organic'?
The company’s new ‘Responsibly Grown’ system rates produce on factors like sustainability and worker treatment.
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Wikimedia Commons The Dragnet Effect: How TV Has Obscured Police Brutality
In the most influential police procedural ever, even Joe Friday, America’s archetypal “good cop,” was blind to the problem.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP 'Probable Cause' in the Killing of Tamir Rice
A Cleveland judge rules that affidavits filed by activists are sufficient to charge one officer with murder, and another with negligent homicide.
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Trailer for <em>Best of Enemies</em> film, at SXSW2015 … Announcer-Speak: The Video Highlights Reel
Clips that mark the progress of America’s weird decades-long linguistic detour
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Mike Stone / Reuters The Fitful Journey Toward Police Accountability
After months of headlines about violent encounters between officers and citizens, some efforts to investigate and punish police are gaining traction.
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Noah Berger / Reuters The Try-Hard Generation
Though Baby Boomers may criticize Millennials for being self-centered, careerist, and politically dispassionate, they are really just adapting to the world they live in today.
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Wikimedia commons American Announcer-Speak: The Origin Story
Why mid-20th-century American movies, plays, and public speeches were dominated by a dialect that no real American naturally spoke.
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Mel Evans / AP Republicans Try to Curtail the Census
The GOP backs legislation that would make the American Community Survey effectively voluntary.
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Wikimedia The Rise and Fall of Announcer-Speak, Class War Edition
“A person can't pick up this way of speaking by going to the movies. You have to go to graduate school.” Was the stagey mid-century accent too easy a route to upward social mobility?
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New York Governor's Office / Reuters A Prison Escape From 'Little Siberia'
The convicted murderers who broke out of one of New York’s toughest prisons may have had help from staff on the inside.
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Danish Siddiqui / Reuters 'I've Never Thanked My Parents for Anything'
In America, saying thank you is routine. In India, it can be insulting.
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Richard Clement / Reuters A Test-Drive for the 'Prius Tax'
Oregon is trying out a program to charge motorists based on the miles they travel rather than the gas they guzzle. Here’s why it may be a fairer way to pay for roads.
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YouTube That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From and Why It Went Away
Is your language rhotic? How to find out, and whether you should care.
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Bend Bulletin Sports and Civic Life, Bend Elks Edition
An evening at the ballpark, with Vinnie the Elk and friends
