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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Reuters The Australian Woman Killed by Police in Minneapolis
Justine Damond’s death has sparked outrage and questions about why the officers had their body cameras switched off.
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Jessie L. Bonner / AP Why Americans Think So Poorly of the Country's Schools
Are public schools generally meeting Americans’ expectations? Or are they teetering on the brink of failure?
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Via Princeton University The Princeton Student Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison in Iran
Xiyue Wang, a Chinese-born U.S. citizen, was detained last summer on charges of espionage while conducting scholarly research.
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Nikola Solic / Reuters The 'Blackwater 2.0' Plan for Afghanistan
Private military contractors have spotted an opportunity as America’s longest war grinds on.
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Stanford University The First Woman to Win Math's Highest Award Dies at 40
Maryam Mirzakhani’s work may change the future understanding of how the universe was formed.
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Hugh Gentry / Reuters A Fire Kills 3 in a Honolulu High-Rise Without Sprinklers
Officials said if the building was up to date with the latest fire codes it’s likely no one would have died.
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John Moore / Getty Images How Long Can Connecticut's Prison Reform Last?
Governor Dannel Malloy’s allies worry the policy changes implemented under his watch will be undone once he leaves office.
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Cris Toala Olivares / Reuters What's Actually Wrong With the U.S. Health System
A new report shows why American health care performs so poorly compared to its rivals—and suggests the Obamacare replacement proposals aren’t the way to fix it.
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Richard Drew / AP Tucker Carlson Is Doing Something Extraordinary
He is offering a glimpse into what Fox News would look like as an intellectually interesting network.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Do Unto Other Harvard Students
One of America’s most prestigious colleges may try to force its undergraduates to be more egalitarian towards one another––but not to anyone else.
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Joe Camporeale / Reuters Major League Baseball's Educational Safety Net
The league recently partnered with Northeastern University to provide players with access to advanced coursework.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters The Awful Decline of the New York City Subway System
The aging infrastructure was already terrible. Overcrowding made things much, much worse.
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Larry Downing / Reuters The U.S. Is a Good Place for Bad People to Stash Their Money
America vows to promote financial transparency, yet it will let just about anyone register an anonymous shell company.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Privatization Is Changing America's Relationship With Its Physical Stuff
Turning more and more infrastructure projects over to outside companies makes citizens more like customers.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Defending Liberal Democracy Is Not the Same as Defending 'the West'
If “Western” is synonymous with “democratic” or “free,” then you don’t need the term at all.
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William Whitehurst / Getty D.C.'s Misguided Attempt to Regulate Daycare
Requiring child-care workers to have college degrees will likely widen the capital’s economic disparities.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters In Defense of 'The West'
To define the term as Miller and Bannon do is to let them set the terms of the debate—and to lose it.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Economy Added 222,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Is at 4.4 Percent
The number of jobs added was better than expected.
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Princeton University Art Museum What on Earth Is Wrong With Connecticut?
Conservatives say the state has a tax problem. Liberals say it has an inequality problem. What it really has is a city problem.
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Jorge Silva / Reuters An Appeals Court Blocks the EPA's Delay on Methane Regulations
The decision ends Scott Pruitt’s 90-day postponement of an Obama-era rule that limited the release of the planet-warming gas.
