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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Dominick Reuter/Reuters Bennett Beach Runs in Boston, Gary Heyne's Influence Lasts in Shanghai
Noting impressive achievements of quite different sorts
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Steve Helber / AP Damage Lingers From Retracted Rolling Stone Story
In a scathing open letter, UVA's associate dean of students Nicole Eramo accused the publication of causing her personal and professional harm.
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Downtown Tampa Equal Time for Tampa, and More on Asheville Too
Catching up with changes in major cities, and in the Atlantic's own web site
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Deborah Fallows A Visit to the Shanghai Public Library
Aging manuscripts share the building with makerspaces.
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Graham Roumieu What Was the Worst Prediction of all Time?
The end of the world, the iPhone, and more
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Can Starbucks Salvage the American Dream?
What it's actually like to pay your way through college as a barista.
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James Fallows More on Nice Downtowns: Do They Just Happen? Or Are They Made?
Tampa has kept trying to revive its downtown, and has kept failing. Asheville has been wildly successful—but was it even trying at all?
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Elise Amendola/AP A Marathon Through the Shadows
Despite the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial, Boston's annual race begins to resemble itself.
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Ian Schick/AP The Dilemmas of Maker Culture
Thinking through the consequences of the proliferation of powerful tools and technologies
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Wikimedia commons Nice Downtowns: How Did They Get That Way?
"Visitors think, 'That's just how Seattle is.' But it wasn't." Lessons via places ranging from Fresno to Shanghai.
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Nati Harnik/AP Chief Juror of the United States
John Roberts reports for jury duty in Maryland.
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John Tierney How Makerspaces Help Local Economies
New technologies like 3-D printers and laser cutters have boosted entrepreneurial activity in American communities.
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Courtesy of Women on 20s The Quest to Boot Old Hickory Off the $20
New legislation joins the ongoing effort to replace Andrew Jackson on American currency.
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Eddie Keogh/Reuters Reinstating Adrian Peterson
The NFL has ended its suspension of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, who missed most of last season while facing child-abuse charges.
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James and Deborah Fallows Three Ways of Thinking About Fresno (and Why You Should Care)
A beleaguered city shows the path toward revival.
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Mian Khursheed/AP How McDonald's Became a Target for Protest
The Golden Arches continue to inspire discontent on a domestic and international level.
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Library of Congress Today's Aviation News: The Good and the Weird
How a demonstration of calm competence becomes a "terrifying" episode
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Dominick Reuter/AP Aaron Hernandez Gets Life
A Massachusetts jury found the former NFL star guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday.
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Kevork Djansezian/Reuters When Security Screening Crosses the Line
A screener at the Denver airport allegedly conspired to grope the genitals of male passengers he found attractive. And with security so intrusive already none of them even complained.
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Orangeaurochs/Flickr When Police Brutality Goes Beyond a 'Bad Apple' Cop
Video footage documents rotten behavior by as many as 11 deputies in San Bernardino County, California.
