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Kevin C. Cox The LSU Championship Game Further Exposed the NCAA’s Hypocrisy
With the recent victory, the association has shown signs that it cannot defend its amateurism model for much longer.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP John Delaney Is Still Running. Why?
The first Democrat to declare his 2020 presidential candidacy remains in the race. Almost nobody knows that.
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David Gray / Getty Australia Will Lose to Climate Change
Even as the country fights bushfires, it can’t stop dumping planet-warming pollution into the atmosphere.
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Paramount Pictures / Netflix / The Atlantic How Hollywood Became Obsessed With De-aging Its Stars
The popular visual-effects technique has implications that could pave the way for a new era in moviemaking—for better or worse.
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BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Disappearing Y Chromosome
It’s surprisingly common for men to start losing entire chromosomes from blood cells as they age.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters A Tiny Island Exposes Europe’s Failures
The investigation into the murder of Malta’s most famous journalist has done more than plunge the country into crisis.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The DACA Case Is a Test of the Administration’s Basic Competence
Nearly 700,000 people's futures are at stake.
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Damon Winter / The New York Times / ... They Support Trump. They Want Him Impeached.
In 2016, 81 percent of voters in Sioux County chose Donald Trump, though some would feel relief if he were impeached.
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Timothy D. Easley / AP The Kentucky Governor’s Race Is a Warning to Republicans
The Republican incumbent couldn’t overcome the unpopularity of the party’s agenda. That doesn’t bode well for the GOP in 2020.
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Eric Nyquist Deadly Algae Are Creeping Northward
In a warming ocean, Alexandrium algae are shredding marine food webs—and disrupting beloved Alaska traditions.
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Photography Tristan Brazier / Getty The Ongoing Horror of #MeToo
She Said, Catch and Kill, and other new books tell stories of monsters brought to account. But their defining mood is not exultation—it’s terror.
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Benjamin K. Edwards Collection / Library of Congress Baseball Is a Civics Education
Baseball is much more than a sport—it’s a wonderful example of a functioning legal system.
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Shutterstock Your Neighbor’s Christian Education, Courtesy of Your Tax Dollars
The Court will hear one of the most notable “Church and state” cases in years.
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Mark Wilson / Win McNamee / Rick Wilking ... How to Survive Impeachment
Former staffers reflect on keeping a besieged administration from falling apart during a scandal.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP The Disparate Reactions to a New Woody Allen Film
The Paris premiere of A Rainy Day in New York highlighted the tension between American morality and France’s high-minded belief that the art transcends the artist.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why Steve Bullock Refuses to Drop Out
Members of the Clinton diaspora are pleading with the Montana governor to stay in the race, even if the rest of the country doesn’t know who he is.
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Yara Nardi / Reuters Italy’s Transition From One Weak Government to Another
The pact between the populist Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, engineered to keep Matteo Salvini from power, may have its days numbered.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Facebook Wants a Do-Over on News
This time around, the company would rather you focus on the humans.
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Brian Danaher The Amazon Publishing Juggernaut
What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision.
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Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic Searching for Beto
The breakout star of the 2018 midterms has had a disappointing 2019 presidential run. Can he turn it around?
