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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Joel Ryan / AP A Happy Meal for James Franco
McDonald's, the favorite franchise of the actor and writer, isn't in as much trouble as he thinks.
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James Fallows Cars, Pedestrians, and the Struggle for the Future of Downtowns
Plus: how much is any discussion of “downtown” a coded talk about race?
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David Goldman / AP A Federal Civil-Rights Probe in Baltimore
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announces a formal investigation into whether police practices violate the Constitution.
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LM Otero / AP The Right to Blaspheme
Dissenting from the tenets of a particular religion is very different than discriminating against a category of persons.
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Chris O'Meara / AP Florida Struggles to Pay the Tab for Rejecting Obamacare
Governor Rick Scott and conservative state lawmakers are finding that it’s not so easy to cover the poor without expanding Medicaid.
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Deborah Fallows California's Improbable Navel-Orange Queen
Eliza Tibbets was a suffragist, abolitionist, and spiritualist—and the mother of California's orange industry.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Importance of April's Jobs Report
After stagnant growth and a weak jobs report in March, the U.S. economy rebounded by adding 223,000 jobs in April.
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Wikimedia Why Should Captains Go Down With Their Ships?
On the 100th anniversary of the Lusitania sinking, and just months after the end of the Costa Concordia trial, a look at the moral and legal obligations on the master of a vessel in distress
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters What's the Right Penalty for Having Sex on the Beach in Florida?
The correct answer is being mocked on Fark.com. But Sunshine State officials believe that up to 15 years in prison and a spot on the sex-offender registry is appropriate.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters 'The American Prospect' Turns 25 and Has a Very Strong New Issue
The strange and striking resonance between the politics of the post-Reagan era and what the first post-Obama president will confront
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Carlos Barria / Reuters In the Wake of Baltimore: Your Thoughts
Passions flared among Atlantic readers during our coverage of last week's unrest. We compiled some of the calmest commentary below and Ta-Nehisi Coates responds to one of his critics at length.
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Nacho Doce / Reuters Film the Police
A new app makes it easier.
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Alex Brandon / AP Can the Baltimore Prosecutor Win Her Case?
A law professor says Marilyn Mosby may have overcharged officers in Freddie Gray's death, but that's common with ordinary defendants.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Pentagon Gets Two New Top Generals
Marine General Joseph Dunford and Air Force General Paul Selva have been tapped to serve as chairman and vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Ruben Sprich / Reuters ISIS Takes Credit for the Texas Attack
While officials have yet to address the group's claim, the Garland shooting is the first act of terror on American soil claimed by the Islamic State.
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Tony Gutierrez / AP Is the Pentagon Messing with Texas?
The U.S. military may not be using a summer exercise to institute martial law in Texas, but Governor Greg Abbott isn't taking chances.
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Wikimedia Commons Fresno to South Bend to Louisville: The Elusive Elements of Civic Success
More cities, more assessments of what works, and why
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David Prasad / Flickr Can Cars Save Downtown?
Fresno, California prepares to rip up its landmark pedestrian mall and replace it with a street.
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Brandon Wade / AP A Terror Attack in Texas
Two gunmen were killed by police on Sunday night at an exhibition of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters Which New Yorkers Should Move to L.A.?
A Southern Californian of record sets The New York Times and its readership straight: Los Angeles is not Williamsburg West.
