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Reuters Syria, Iraq, and the Specter of Chemical Warfare
Activists say Assad's army dropped chlorine gas on a northern Syrian town, while Kurdish forces allege ISIS use of the same weapon against them near Mosul.
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Mike Derer/AP Ikea Is No Place for Hide and Seek
It's all fun and games until someone's actually trapped in the closet.
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Reuters Arresting the Albino Hunters
Tanzania has made strides in holding hundreds of witchdoctors accountable for the deplorable practice of butchering people to make "magical" potions.
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Gary Bogdon/AP Trunk Show: A Circus Without Elephants
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey will no longer feature pachyderms in their performances, bringing about an end to one of the hallmarks of the American circus.
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Aaron Gash/AP/The Atlantic The Burden of Height and Talent
The NBA player Larry Sanders is taking a break to explore his "purpose in life." That's very unusual.
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Maneul Balce Ceneta/AP What Happens if Homeland Security Shuts Down?
A budget standoff could force the department to shut down this week, but most Americans won't immediately notice.
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Clockwise from top left: Rogelio V. Solis/AP; Tony … The GOP's Flavors of the Month
Early leads in the presidential polls don't predict success, but falling too far behind can produce failure.
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Ralph D. Freso/Reuters Making Baseball Less Boring
Will MLB's new rules to speed up America's pastime bring younger fans back or alienate the diehards?
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bikeriderLondon/Shutterstock Should the Victor Share the Spoils?
America's winner-take-all electoral system has its problems. Proportional representation might fix them.
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Reuters John Updike's 'Pygmalion'
In the 1981 Atlantic short story, a man can’t understand a social gathering until his wife reenacts it for him later in the evening.
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Wikimedia Do We Want to Believe the Numbers? A Q&A With Nate Silver
The FiveThirtyEight founder on broken-windows policing, Max Scherzer, and foxes in the Oval Office.
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Simon Cunningham/Flickr Robin Hood in Reverse
State and local taxes in the United States take the most from those who have the least, undermining efforts to redress inequality.
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Albert Gea/Reuters Frank Lampard's Tale of Two Cities
For European stars, is Major League Soccer anything more than a long retirement party?
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Rebecca Naden/Reuters Charm Can't Save Roberto Martinez's Season
The Everton manager is hugely popular thanks to a strong resume and a likeable personality, but his team is in freefall.
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Loay Abu Haykel Why the Palestinians Joined the International Criminal Court
Mahmoud Abbas joined the Hague a day after the Palestinian Authority was denied statehood by the UN’s Security Council.
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Reuters 'Castro Is Not a Communist or a Dupe'
How The Atlantic processed the Cuban Revolution in 1959
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Elise Amendola/AP Joe Biden Isn't Getting a Raise and Other Budget Oddities
Congress's new spending bill is packed with "riders" that change policy on everything from the sage-grouse to D.C. marijuana laws.
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Matt Rourke/AP Do You Know Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go?
Congressional leaders have reached a deal to fund the government, but polls show most Americans don't understand what the U.S. budget includes.
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NBC Sports The Plight of Leading English Soccer's Second Rank
Tottenham Hotspur are well-liked and close to the top. But until they can beat their rivals head-to-head, they won't surpass them.
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Toby Melville/Reuters One of the Happiest Stories in Soccer May End Soon
The Saints survived a summer exodus and started the season well, but this weekend, they were reminded why they're still underdogs.
