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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Mark Lennihan / AP The NFL Offseason Is Full of Quarterbacks
The next two months are shaping up to be a rare opportunity for teams in search of a steady hand under center.
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Mike McQuade Commander v. Chief
The lessons of Eisenhower’s civil-rights struggle with his chief justice Earl Warren
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Jim Young / Reuters The Second Amendment Does Not Transcend All Others
Its text and context don’t ensure an unlimited individual right to bear any kind and number of weapons by anyone.
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Lee Jin-man / AP The Health-Care Gap Between Red and Blue America
States have a surprising degree of autonomy to block President Trump’s changes to Obamacare—and liberal-leaning states are already making their move.
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Robert Ray / AP The Ripple Effect of the West Virginia Teachers' Victory
The success of the statewide strike has intensified education unrest nationally—and could have lasting implications for the country’s schools.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Rich People Are Ruining Wine
… and Napa Valley is forever changing as a result.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters America's Gun-Culture Problem
Since the September 11 attacks, attitudes around weaponry have transformed into something unhealthy.
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Francis Miller / The LIFE Picture Collection / … Martin Luther King Jr. Changed a Nation in Only 13 Years
A timeline
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Lettering by Adé Hogue The Young Man Who Became a Civil-Rights Icon
Before he led the Montgomery bus boycott or marched on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. was a chain-smoking, pool-playing student at Crozer Theological College just discovering his passion for social justice.
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© Kara Walker, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & … How Kara Walker Recasts Racism’s Bitter Legacy
The artist’s works turn the brutality of history inside out.
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Flip Schulke / Corbis / Getty Martin Luther King Jr.’s Daughter Embraces His Hope for the Future
During another polarizing period in America’s history, Bernice A. King lays out three actions that she thinks her father would offer today.
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Paul Schutzer / Life Picture Collection / Getty Racism Is ‘Built Into the Very Bones’ of Mississippi
Jesmyn Ward reflects on choosing to raise her children in her home state.
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WG600; Stephen F. Somerstein / Getty; Lukas Maverick … Martin Luther King Jr. Mourns Trayvon Martin
A poem
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Case Against Gun Control
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Mark Wallheiser / AP The Parkland Students Aren't Going Away
American teens are shaping a new kind of debate about gun violence—but why now?
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The American Detention Machine
“U.S. history is not about the nation of immigrants.”
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Nathan Bajar / The Atlantic Radio Atlantic: How Innocence Becomes Irrelevant
The story of Benjamine Spencer shows a legal system that prefers naming someone guilty over figuring out who really is.
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When Gun Owners Become Like Hypocritical Hippies
David Frum questions the “self-indulgent permissiveness” of Republican gun law.
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AP How The Atlantic Covered Billy Graham at the Start of His Career
Sixty years ago, the late evangelist went to Scotland, preached the gospel, and cost the magazine subscribers.
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Reuters The Power of the Parkland Town Hall
The CNN-hosted event highlighted the voices of student activists, and showed why the gun debate might actually be different this time around.
