Stephen Lurie
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Getty; The Atlantic The Surprising Politics of Antiques Roadshow
The show is about finding out how much your possessions are worth. But it has stayed popular because it values knowledge over money.
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Lauren Giordano/The Atlantic The Only Man Who Can Fix Mass Incarceration Is Barack Obama
Waiting for Congress or the courts or a popular movement to fix America's prison crisis is a waste of time.
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Joshua Lott / Reuters Why It Matters That Politicians Have No Experience of Poverty
For the first time, more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Maybe the country would be better off if they had some first-hand encounters with need.
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NBC Universal Highly Educated Countries Have Better Governments
Why? Citizens complain more, forcing officials to be more accountable.
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Charles Dharapak/AP Photo Obama's Empty Rhetoric on Education
In his State of the Union addresses, the president has talked about schooling in very superficial ways.
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Reuters How Washington Abandoned America's Unpaid Interns
A legal labyrinth has trapped millions of young Americans who work every year without pay, because they are called "interns" rather than "employees."
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Ron Edmonds/AP Photo Why Doesn't the Constitution Guarantee the Right to Education?
Every country that outperforms the U.S. has a constitutional or statutory commitment to this right.
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Reuters The Cover Letter: A Short History of Every Job-Seeker's Greatest Annoyance
In the last 50 years, they've become ubiquitous. It's only now that some companies are realizing that the cover letter is more of a performance than a useful projection.
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Reuters How the Senate Exploits Unpaid Interns
Barely a third of U.S. senators pay their interns -- and embarrassingly for Democrats, a party focused on workplace welfare, most of them are Republicans.
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Reuters The Astonishing Decline of Homelessness in America
... and why this quiet trend is about to reverse itself
