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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Jason Novak The Man With the Winged Hand-Grenade Tattoo
The illustrated story of an army veteran who chose to turn the emotional scars of war into body art.
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Charles Rex Arbogast/AP File John Nash's Beautiful Life
The brilliant mathematician, who died in a car accident on Sunday, was best known for his struggle with mental illness.
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Courtesy of Team Rubicon Taking Off the Uniform, but Retaining the Drive to Serve
Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization that redeploys vets as disaster-relief volunteers, helps former troops find meaningful uses for their skills.
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Tony Dejak/AP 'This Is Straight Murder': A Troubling Acquittal in Cleveland
No police officers will serve time for the November 2012 shooting death of two unarmed black civilians.
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YouTube 'Mayday! Emergency Landing. We're on Fire.'
We all like to think we’d be calm in times of great pressure. Here is how it looks when people really are.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters What's Missing in the Indictments Over Freddie Gray's Death
There's one notable exception in the grand jury charges against six Baltimore police officers.
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Tim Sharp / Reuters The End of the Boy Scout Ban on Gay Adults?
On Thursday, Boy Scouts of America President Bob Gates said “the status quo in our movement’s membership standards cannot be sustained.”
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Fenando Donasci / Reuters How to Treat Pregnant Drug Addicts? Your Thoughts
Readers debate a recent Atlantic feature on women locked up for using drugs while pregnant. Does prison do more harm than good? What are the alternatives?
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Reuters San Bernardino Votes to Move Past Bankruptcy, Plus Pandas and the Finale to the Boiled Frog Saga
News from every corner of the world
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Timothy D. Easley / AP A Kentucky Election That's Too Close to Call?
The process will declare a winner in the governor’s race between Matt Bevin and James Comer, but it may be impossible to determine who actually garnered a majority of votes.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters An Oil Spill Fouls the California Coastline
A pipeline burst yesterday, spilling an estimated 21,000 gallons (79,500 liters) of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara.
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Mike Stone / Reuters After the Waco Shootout, Texas Lawmakers Debate Gun Laws
Sunday’s deadly melée in Texas hasn’t seemed to hurt the prospects for a bill loosening handgun restrictions in the state.
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Mike Stone / Reuters The Texas Biker Shootout Is Too Much for Waco to Handle
The local police department investigates its own actions, with few safeguards against the perverse incentives that this case presents.
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Jim Cole / AP Why Congress Can't Solve America's Infrastructure Crisis
Lawmakers can’t agree on how to pay for the Highway Trust Fund for the remainder of the year, let alone for the next decade.
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Reuters The Right and Wrong Questions About the Iraq War
These “knowing what we know now …” questions are driving me crazy. They should make you mad too.
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James Fallows Isabella Greenway, Pioneering American Woman
The first Arizonan congresswoman, a lifelong friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, lived a remarkable life.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters Today a Bankrupt City Votes on Its Next Steps
“We’ve gotten used to gridlock and stalemate at the national level. This is what it looks like for a city.” What civic dysfunction has in common with excessive CEO pay, and why it matters.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Obama's Missing Police-Reform Proposal
Eric Holder wanted to make it easier to prosecute civil-rights abuses in federal court, but that push has gone nowhere.
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USGS / Robert Krimmel The Eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980
On May 18, 1980, an earthquake struck below the north face of Mount St. Helens in Washington State, triggering the largest landslide in recorded history, and a major volcanic eruption that scattered ash across a dozen states.
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Waco Police Department / Reuters The Texas Biker-Gang Massacre
Nine people are dead after a fight among bikers escalated into a gun battle involving police and outlaw organizations that seemed ripped from another era.
