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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Bettmann / Getty Coretta Scott King and the Civil-Rights Movement’s Hidden Women
She was far more than her husband’s helpmate, but along with many other leaders of the era, her leadership was hidden in plain sight.
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Reuters / Getty / The Atlantic / Thanh … A Generation Under Siege
On a cold spring day, hundreds of thousands of adults stood and listened to children—under attack, and unwilling to wait any longer for solutions.
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AP A Modest Plea for Patriotic History
If Americans were more familiar with the complex heroes of their past, they would be better equipped to recognize people of good character today.
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Kirsten Leah Bitzer America’s Unending Tragedy
Two decades after Columbine, Americans remain split as to whether guns are dangerous or essential—and the school shootings continue.
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Chris Gunn / NASA Building the World's Most Powerful Telescope
Photos of the long, painstaking construction process of the $8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in early 2019.
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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Democrats Bet on a Billionaire in Illinois
The party nominated businessman J.B. Pritzker to go up against Governor Bruce Rauner, the Republican incumbent who barely avoided an embarrassing primary defeat on Tuesday night.
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Ping Zhu Raising My Kids to Be Unapologetic American Muslims
Growing up, I practiced my faith quietly. Now I want my children to be loud about theirs.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Republicans Don't Want a Primary Challenge to Trump
Contrary to the longings of NeverTrumpers, there’s no groundswell of support among the GOP rank and file for a challenger to the president.
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Win McNamee / Getty The Heavy Burden of Teaching My Son About American Racism
If my black child has to learn that society will hate him, he should hear about it from someone who unconditionally loves him.
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Rinzy999 / Atstock Productions / Shutterstock / The … What's the Difference Between a Frat and a Gang?
They’re both blamed for predisposing their members to violent acts, but they’ve sparked radically different public-policy responses.
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An Inside Look at Juvenile Detention
Rehabilitation and reform in Virginia's last facility for kids.
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Joe McKendry Prisons Are the New Asylums
A very short book excerpt
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Student Walkout Against Gun Violence, in Photos
Across the United States today, students participated in walkouts to protest gun violence one month after the deadly shooting in a Florida high school.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters A Democrat Declares Victory in Trump Country
Conor Lamb leads Republican Rick Saccone by only 579 votes, but Democrats are already celebrating.
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July 4th in a Cursed Appalachian Mining Town
After a traveling preacher cursed Ivanhoe, Virginia in the late 19th century, economic ruin befell the town.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Medicaid Expansion's Troubled Future
The Affordable Care Act’s extension of public insurance to poor adults might finally make its way into every state. But those inroads could come with a cost.
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Andrew Burton / Reuters How the Great Recession Hurt Americans' Health
As jobs evaporated, blood pressure skyrocketed.
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NASA / Dimitri Gerondidakis Who's Running NASA?
An interim administrator has been overseeing the space agency for more than 13 months—and now he’s leaving, too.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters How Trump Is Remaking Evangelicalism
A new book shows the fracture lines the 45th U.S. president has created within American Christianity.
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Javier Jaén The Last Temptation
How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory
