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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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Bannon's Senate Insurgency Hits a Stumbling Block in Utah
The Breitbart chair’s effort to recruit populist challengers hits a snag, as the most plausible such candidate for Orrin Hatch’s seat bows out of the race.
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Terray Sylvester / Reuters The Keystone XL Pipeline Wins a Battle, But Faces a New War
The Nebraska Public Service Commission approved the project, but said it must take an alternate route through the state.
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Andrew Burton / Reuters Can Rich Millennials Be Convinced to Give Their Money Away?
A nonprofit helping wealthy young progressives become active philanthropists has gained new life under the Trump administration.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Republican War on College
For the cost of cutting corporate income taxes, the U.S. could provide universal pre-K and make tuition free at public colleges for nonaffluent students.
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Courtesy of Jamestown The Second Life of Sears's Massive Distribution Centers
New projects in the shells of former Sears warehouses reveal much about America’s urban history—and its future.
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Shannon DeCelle / AP A Heavy Blow to One of America's Most Controversial School Boards
A new lawsuit focuses on a district whose governing board is dominated by ultra-Orthodox Jews who send their kids to private schools.
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Jason Redmond / Reuters Can Seattle Handle Its Own Growth?
The city is confronting multiple challenges that come with economic success.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Ignorance of Mocking Mormonism
It’s precisely the beliefs of Latter-day Saints that critics dismiss as strange which produce the behaviors those same critics often applaud.
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Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock / Eric Thayer … Democrats Are Shockingly Unprepared to Fight Climate Change
There’s no magic bill waiting in the wings—and no quick path to arriving at one.
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D. Ross Cameron / AP The NFL Is Making Colin Kaepernick’s Collusion Case for Him
As weeks pass and league-wide quarterback play worsens, the athlete-turned-activist’s continued absence on Sundays is becoming impossible to rationalize.
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Brynn Anderson / AP How Alabama's Election Laws Keep Moore on the Ballot
After multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment of minors against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, a complicated set of elections laws and rules is being used to keep his hat in the ring.
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Universal How Will the Oscars Reflect This Moment in Hollywood?
As awards season begins, the Best Picture race could see another surprise winner following Moonlight’s triumph earlier this year.
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Rogelio V. Solis / AP Will Schools Start Lying About Attendance Rates?
States are planning to use chronic absenteeism to assess performance, but some wonder if incentives will lead administrators to manipulate the data.
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Tom Dilly Littleson The Making of an American Nazi
How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?
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Ethan Miller / Getty / Zak Bickel / … Bill Clinton: A Reckoning
Feminists saved the 42nd president of the United States in the 1990s. They were on the wrong side of history; is it finally time to make things right?
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George Frey / Reuters The NSA Should Delete Its Trove of Data on Americans
It cannot reliably protect even its most closely guarded secrets from adversaries. There is no reason to trust it to store years of details about private citizens’ communications, too.
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Jacob Myrick How Veterans Can Help Bridge the Civil-Military Divide
Servicemembers and civilians are tuned out of each other’s lives and challenges, which only deepens the rifts between them.
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Lever Architecture (Rendering) The Weird, Wooden Future of Skyscrapers
A change to the urban skyline that could make a big dent in carbon emissions.
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David Zalubowski / AP Keith Ellison Believes Democrats Will Take Back the House and Senate
A conversation with the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee about how Democrats can win back trust, his high hopes for the party in 2018, and the possibility of impeachment.
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Jacob Myrick America's Elite Colleges Need More Veterans
The military can be an important engine for social mobility, but it doesn’t always work that way.
