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Patrick T. Fallon / Getty Kentucky Is Turning to Drones to Fix Its Unsolved-Murder Crisis
Only 52 percent of the state’s homicides result in an arrest when the victim is black. Could automating police work help?
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Brad Penner / AP Why Eli Manning Is Still a Giant
He’s maybe the least respected good quarterback there ever was. But for all his obvious faults, no one can say he fell short of expectations.
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Eric Risberg / AP Tech Billionaires’ Obligation to the Cities Around Them
California voters are being asked to tax big corporations to solve local problems. But is that the companies’ responsibility?
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Petarg / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Main Suspect Behind an Ominous Spike in a Polio-like Illness
A common virus seems to be behind a puzzling condition that’s paralyzing children, but uncertainties remain.
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Roberto “Bear” Guerra / High Country News A California Mayor Wants His Beach Town to Retreat From the Shore
In Imperial Beach, a dramatic solution to coastal flooding
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Jeff Chiu / AP A Long-Term Solution for Scooter Sharing
San Francisco’s scooters are back, and newly regulated. But is regulation enough to make them work in the long term?
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sezer66 / Shutterstock / The Atlantic How iRacing Is Democratizing Motorsports
These days, amateur speed enthusiasts can use digital simulators to compete against the car-racing industry’s biggest stars. The e-sports arena is a playground for gamers, pros, and talent scouts alike.
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Found Image Holdings / Getty Boom Town Explodes the Notion of ‘Flyover’ Territory
Sam Anderson’s ambitious new book about Oklahoma City reanimates a place that has too often been portrayed as simplistic.
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Stefano Rellandini / Reuters Italy Defied Starbucks—Until It Didn’t
The chain has opened its first outfit in Milan. But does “the country of coffee” really need it?
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How Misinfodemics Spread Disease
Researchers are finding more and more that online misinformation fuels the spread of diseases such as tooth decay, Ebola, and measles.
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Toru Hanai / Reuters The Jordan Peterson All-Meat Diet
The famous psychologist and his daughter swear by a regimen of eating only beef. Restriction can provide a sense of order in a world of chaos—but at what point does restriction become a disorder?
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Reuters The Sex-Abuse Scandal Has Come for Pope Francis
A letter calling for his resignation shows how serious his crisis of credibility has become.
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Anton Vaganov / Reuters Punishing Putin Just Makes Him Stronger
Tougher sanctions will only make him double down on antagonizing the West.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Kofi Annan Was a Politician as Well as a Peacemaker
The former UN secretary-general, who died Saturday, showed what it meant to be a good international civil servant.
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Denise Nestor The Nastiest Feud in Science
A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.
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Littleton Public Schools School-Security Companies Are Thriving in the Era of Mass Shootings
A multibillion-dollar industry is pushing an array of expensive technologies with the message that any campus could be next.
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Courtesy of Jonathan Proctor, Solomon Hsiang / The ... A Disappointing New Problem With Geo-Engineering
Dimming the sky won’t save the world’s harvests.
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Alexander Wells The Viral Video Star Behind the Fitness Fad That May Replace CrossFit
Ido Portal teaches famous athletes how to use their bodies in entirely new ways. But is it all snake oil?
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Lorin Eleni Gill / AP Nia Wilson and the Formula for Covering Black Death
The racial elements and gruesome details surrounding the teen’s killing have pushed the story into the public sphere. But only some black victims are afforded this kind of attention.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Problem With The New York Times’ Big Story on Climate Change
By portraying the early years of climate politics as a tragedy, the magazine lets Republicans and the fossil-fuel industry off the hook.
