Features
The Ideas List 2012
From banning gasoline and hiring introverts to abolishing the secret ballot and befriending Islamists, our collection of modest proposals. Plus an online-only report on big ideas in politics, culture, business, tech, and more.
Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
It’s time to stop fooling ourselves: the mothers who have made it to the top of their profession are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. Here’s what has to change for the rest of us.
Video: Anne-Marie Slaughter discusses the struggles of working mothers with Atlantic senior editor Hanna Rosin.
Live Chat: The author talks with readers about her cover story.
Debate: Writers weigh in on our cover story and voice their own opinions about work, family, and "having it all."
Jersey Boys
Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen—a tale of politics, rock and roll, and unrequited love
Playlist: Listen to the governor's 10 all-time favorite Springsteen tunes.
The Measured Man
Larry Smarr is charting his every bodily function in minute detail—and may have found the future of health care.
Video: Smarr shows off his imaging technology—and the inside of his own colon.
Fiction: Ice Man
He saw deputies in their serious hats coming through the restaurant from the kitchen, four white guys who looked like they meant business.
Video: Elmore Leonard talks about bad movies and good writing with James Parker.
Dispatches
Hell on Bicycle Wheels
Outside Olympic Park, the most cutthroat, reckless, competitive race of 2012 is already under way.
Olympic Idol
Who will carry the flame for Britain?
Slideshow: The stories behind some of the most memorable Olympic cauldron lighters in history
World’s Worst Traffic Jam
How a 40-mile trip to Lagos took 12 hours
The Last Days of Foie Gras
Irate chefs, frenzied gourmands, and the rise of animal rights in California
For the Love of Art
Destroying paintings in order to save them
Wrestlemaniac
A close encounter with the sport’s most authentic madman
Finding the Perfect Wave in Liberia
Its old war scars healed, the West African coast beckons surfers of all varieties.
The Right Spacesuit
New technology lets a skydiver fall from 120,000 feet. Could it also save astronauts’ lives?
Columns
The Triumph of the Family Farm
Farming is in the midst of a startling renaissance—one that holds lessons for America’s economic future.
A Long, Strange Trip
How a new 14-DVD box set turned a lifelong skeptic on to the music of the Grateful Dead
Books
A Renaissance Palace and a Loaf of Wonder Bread
Revising Spain's Escorial, plus the history of a maligned American food
Jackie and the Girls
Mrs. Kennedy’s JFK problem—and ours
Live Chat: Caitlin Flanagan talks to readers about our beloved and complicated 35th president.
Cover to Cover
Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell returns; the history of Maurice Sendak’s medium; a better parking lot; and more
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