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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Evan Vucci / AP The Real Cause of the Last Government Shutdown—and the Next One
Republican leaders have proven unable to enact any spending bills, despite controlling both houses of Congress.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Sex-Abuse Victims America Ignored
It took way too long for the Michigan State University gymnastics scandal to capture the country’s attention—and it’s easy to see why.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'An Assault on the Body of the Church’
Catholic parishes have been hit hard by President Trump’s decision to suspend Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters Trust Is Collapsing in America
When truth itself feels uncertain, how can a democracy be sustained?
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Women’s Marchers Look to the Midterms
Thousands gathered in New York City to protest Donald Trump and show support for the growing movement against sexual abuse.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Real Reasons Why the Government Shut Down
Immigration isn’t the only sticking point.
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Hyungwon Kang / Reuters What Happens to Astronauts During a Government Shutdown?
How NASA scales down to a skeleton crew when Congress misses a big budget deadline
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic After 61 Years, America’s Busiest Highway Is Almost Complete
An infamous gap in Interstate 95 will finally be closed this summer.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Ta-Nehisi Coates on Cornel West’s One-Sided War
Coates says he is "mystified as anybody else” over West's critique.
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Shamil Zhumatov / AP When Will Astronauts Launch From U.S. Soil Again?
NASA is hopeful SpaceX and Boeing will soon free the country from dependency on Russia, but delays abound.
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Library of Congress / Katie Martin / The … When the South Was the Most Progressive Region in America
Groundbreaking elections in the late 1860s gave birth to real, if short-lived, interracial democracy—the likes of which America had never seen.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters How Colleges Foretold the #MeToo Movement
The current moment illustrates what many schools have known, and been reckoning with, for years.
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AP The Accidental Poison That Founded the Modern FDA
Elixir Sulfanilamide was a breakthrough antibiotic—until it killed more than 100 people. An Object Lesson.
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USGS When an Earthquake Hits Next Door
What would you do if a quake struck two blocks from your home?
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U.S. Army Center for Military History When the Army Planned for a Fight in U.S. Cities
In 1968, one retired colonel warned that urban insurrections could produce “scenes of destruction approaching those of Stalingrad.”
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Five Decades of White Backlash
President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
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Cory Lum / Honolulu Civil Beat Pandemonium and Rage in Hawaii
A false alert of an impending missile attack highlights just how unprepared the country is for nuclear disaster.
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Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Photos of California's Deadly Mudslides
Hillsides scorched by wildfires last month unleashed mudslides under heavy rainfall north of Los Angeles on Tuesday.
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Elise Amendola / AP Is the ‘War on Teachers’ as Dire as It’s Made Out to Be?
A decline in job protections isn’t pushing teachers out of all schools, a study suggests—just those schools that are already struggling.
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John Locher / AP A Tiny Texas Town Takes a Chance on Medical Marijuana
Schulenburg, with fewer than 3,000 residents and a polka museum, seems an unlikely place for some of the state’s first legal sales of the drug.
