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 Blue and the Gray'
A historically oriented performance comes from New York to the Southern site that inspired it.
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/The Atlantic Why the Fast-Food Ban Failed in South L.A.
Obesity rates for residents of South Los Angeles only increased after the city imposed a moratorium on the construction of new fast-food restaurants.
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James Cridland/Flickr Confessions of a Prosecutor Who Sent an Innocent to Death Row
A lawyer apologizes to the man he helped wrongfully convict, 30 years later.
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Bob Mical/Flickr Certainty and Doubt at UVA
Police couldn't find any evidence to substantiate allegations in Rolling Stone of a gang rape at a fraternity—but they're suspending the case, not closing it.
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Conference on World Affairs How People in Boulder Build Community out of a Conference
An annual meeting brings speakers from around the world together with students and local residents, in intimate settings.
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters The Economics of California's Drought
What happens when the country's largest state runs low on water?
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Love Will Form All Things/Flickr Judging the Cops: When Excessive Force Trumps Resisting Arrest
A black teen who was illegally stopped, punched, kneed, and tased by Portland police officers is acquitted despite struggling against their attempts to handcuff him.
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City of Fresno Stages of a Downtown Comeback: Fresno Begins the Long Climb
Urban revivals require a shared narrative, private-sector partners, and a public official championing a far-sighted plan.
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Wikimedia Can Executions Be More Humane?
A law professor suggests an untested procedure as an alternative to lethal injection.
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Zorandim/Shutterstock Farmland Without Farmers
As industrial agriculture replaces men with machines, the American landscape loses its stewards, and the culture they built.
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Deanna Dent/Reuters When Is It Domestic Terrorism, and When Is It Uncontrolled Anger?
The tough questions about mental health and guns raised by shootings in Arizona and North Carolina
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Is Minneapolis the Best City in America?
Derek Thompson visits PBS NewsHour to discuss the city's rare combination of affordability, opportunity, and wealth.
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Glynnis Jones / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Gay and Mennonite
They vote on everything. They’re committed to peace. Can a church that defines itself by harmony survive dissonance over homosexuality?
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USAF Senior Airman Christina D. Ponte, via Aviation … The Scandal of the Anti A-10 Campaign: Chickenhawk Chronicles Resume
What a spending battle over military aircraft reveals about our moral priorities
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Who Would Jesus Bomb, and Other Imponderable Questions
A chickenhawk moment so pure it deserves extra attention
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David Allen My Brush With Best-Sellerdom, Part Deux
So near, so far. Still a book you should read.
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Ike Edeani A Bridge Too Low
Raising a vital roadway for a new generation of giant ships
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Kepler School Fresno's Tiniest Citizens
An elementary school of and for the urban community
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Kate Munsch/Reuters The Unclear Motives of the Ferguson Shooter
St. Louis County's arrest of a suspect in last week's shooting of two officers in Ferguson raises more questions than it answers.
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Lauren Giordano/The Atlantic Get Out of Jail—for a Fee
Are post-conviction bail bonds a smart way to reduce the nation's prison population or just another way to exploit the poor?
