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Features
How to Save the News
Google knows that its search function is only as valuable as the information it helps you find—a principal source of which is the beleaguered news business. That’s why the company assigned some of its top thinkers to the puzzle of how to make journalism pay. Their answers may revolutionize the media.
Slideshow: A presentation on the precarious nature of the newspaper business by Google chief economist Hal Varian
Here Comes the Neighborhood
Private rail networks could save the housing industry, revive the economy, and help meet the booming demand for walkable neighborhoods. History offers plenty of encouragement.
Special Report: TheAtlantic.com explores the future of urban America through videos, a special blog, and classic stories from our archives
Tomorrowland
How new wireless technology will shape the city of the future—and automate everything from parking to engineering to traffic flow
Ghosts of New York
Immigrant artisans created an exuberant American art form on New York’s tenements at the turn of the 20th century. The only major public collection of their work now lies in a heap behind the Brooklyn Museum. Its odyssey reveals much about a changing city— and a changing culture.
The Enemy Within
A new worm has infected millions of computers. Its creators wield the most advanced encryption known to man, and have stumped the best cyber-security experts in the world. No one knows what the worm’s masters are planning to use it for. And no one knows how to stop it.
Dispatches
Who’s the Boss?
The UAW’s stock holdings in the Big Three carmakers have caused some members to wonder whose side it’s on.
Hex Appeal
Witches are overwhelming the courts in the Central African Republic. And that may be a good thing.
Guitar Heroes
Can a battle of the bands help end a brutal insurgency in India?
Who Invented the Cocktail?
That depends on how you define invented. And cocktail.
Board Games
The gruff, boastful art of claiming Indonesia’s surf as your own
The Little Black Piezoelectric Dress
What happens when high tech meets haute couture
Video: Footage from a tech-savvy runway show
Books
Gentrification and Its Discontents
Manhattan never was what we think it was.
Love, Actually
How girls reluctantly endure the hookup culture
Columns
The Genius of QVC
How the shopping network became one of the most effective retailing machines ever invented
Video: Megan McArdle reveals how QVC sells perfume on TV
The Last Pop Star
Lady Gaga is simultaneously embodying and eviscerating Pop.
Video: James Parker studies Gaga’s singular image and finds her antithesis in the celebrity kingdom
My Country, Tis of Me
There’s nothing patriotic about the Tea Party Patriots.
The History of Thomas Edison 
This Must Be the Place: Byun 
Video Documentary: The Impact of a Principal 
