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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Sue Ogrocki / AP When Police Officers Don't Know About the ADA
In many jurisdictions, cops’ noncompliance with the law has led to strain and miscommunication with the deaf community.
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USA Today Sports A Nation of Snowflakes
The greatest threats to free speech in America come from the state, not from activists on college campuses.
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Education Isn't the Key to a Good Income
A growing body of research debunks the idea that school quality is the main determinant of economic mobility.
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Carlos Giusti / AP How Puerto Ricans on the Mainland Are Getting News From Relatives
Members of the island’s diaspora are coping with the trauma of Hurricane Maria by using technology to connect with family and help people on the island.
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Ricardo Arduengo / AFP / Getty Disconnected by Disaster—Photos From a Battered Puerto Rico
Five days after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, its devastating impact is becoming clearer.
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Reuters Kneeling for Life and Liberty Is Patriotic
NFL athletes are protesting on behalf of America’s founding values––and Donald Trump neither loves nor understands them.
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Tami Chappell / Reuters Alabama's Strange Senate Rivalry
The contest between Luther Strange and Roy Moore raises the question of who has more sway with Trump’s base: the president or conservative firebrands like Steve Bannon?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters America's Red and Blue Judges
Justice Neil Gorsuch exemplifies how the Supreme Court has become fully enmeshed in the rankest partisan politics.
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Matt Dunham / AP They Took a Knee
This weekend, a series of taunting messages from the president led to a widescale protest among players—in the NFL, and beyond.
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Bettmann / Getty Will Trump Change the Way Presidents Approach National Monuments?
Since Theodore Roosevelt, administrations have designated land across the country, but never before have they scaled down sites to the extent proposed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Images The People Who Pledge Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution
How patriotism among American immigrants is uniquely linked to the country’s founding document
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Handout / Reuters What Would a Hydrogen Bomb Do to the Pacific Ocean?
A North Korean official has hinted about conducting a nuclear test at sea, which would have severe environmental consequences.
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KNCA via Reuters The Meaning of Kim Jong Un's Rebuttal to Trump
The Trump administration has been sleepwalking through a dream. It’s time to wake up.
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Benjamin Lowy / Getty The Most Polarizing Education Reformer in New York City
In a new memoir, Eva Moskowitz recounts how her revered—and notorious—Success Academy charter-school network came to be.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What the Waiting List for Legal Residency Actually Looks Like
Politicians argue immigrants should just “get in line” if they want to live in the United States. But the process itself can take decades.
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Fox Searchlight Battle of the Sexes Is a Breezy Crowd-Pleaser
Emma Stone and Steve Carell star as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, who faced off in a famed 1973 tennis match with surprising resonance for today.
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Brynn Anderson / AP Providing Abortions in the Deep South
Willie Parker discusses his Christian faith, teen moms, and what’s next for abortion access.
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Julia Rendleman / Reuters The Theory and Practice of Civic Engagement, by Eric Liu
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Cliff Owen / AP The Hurricane Effect
The Federal Reserve announced that it will hold rates steady while the economic consequences of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria continue to unfold.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Real Losers of the Graham-Cassidy Health-Care Bill
The bill would take funding from governments facing public-health crises to provide a short-term boon to a smaller number of states that have refused to expand Medicaid.
