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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?
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Patrick Semansky / AP / Katie Martin / ... Adam Schiff Is Back From the Wilderness
The House Intelligence Committee chairman opens up about the Mueller investigation.
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Charles Krupa / AP Elizabeth Warren Has Momentum. Can She Build a Movement?
The senator from Massachusetts is on the verge of turning her campaign into something much larger.
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Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty The ‘Religious Freedom’ Agenda
Trump-administration officials are using a two-word phrase as a rhetorical Swiss Army knife on the world stage.
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Christinne Muschi / Reuters What’s Behind Quebec’s Ban on Religious Symbols
The Canadian province has a complicated relationship with its immigrant communities. Last month, it became the first place in North America to institute such a ban.
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Bryan Woolston / AP Mitch McConnell’s (Un)certain Fate
Amy McGrath will try to do what Beto O’Rourke couldn’t: Remove a high-profile Republican from a deep-red state.
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Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane IVF Mix-Ups Have Broken the Definition of Parenthood
When a New York woman gave birth to twins after IVF, neither baby was related to her, or to each other.
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Jack Wilkes / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... The Bizarre Ways America’s First Spy Agency Tried to Overthrow Hitler
From undercover heiresses to hormone-injected vegetables, the early days of the Office of Strategic Services were marked by colorful hires and wild schemes.
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AP / Francisco Seco The U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s Biggest Battle Is Yet to Be Won
Some 1 billion people tuned in to the games this year, making the USWNT’s victory even more crucial in their upcoming legal fight for equal pay.
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Brianna Pressey / The Atlantic When Your Pregnancy Is Political
A conversation with the anti-abortion activist Lila Rose about politicizing one of the defining moments of her life
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Ben Curtis / Associated press What It Means for Health Care to Be a Human Right
To protect a population’s health, governments might have to think beyond access to care.
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Xinzheng / Getty Human Lives Might Be Long Enough Already
Humanity has added three decades to people’s life spans in the past 150 years. Science is only beginning to catch up.
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Henry Griffin / AP The Old Senate Is Hardwired Into Joe Biden
The body he was elected to in 1972 required even the bitterest rivals to maintain a veneer of civility. But the country has long moved on from that brand of politics.
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Niranjan Shrestha / AP Everest Is Over
With crowds, trash, and selfies at its summit, the once untamable mountain has lost its cultural power.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It
With enemies like these, the industry is going to need some friends.
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Zoë van Dijk The Opioid Crisis Is Killing Trees Too
In the coastal rain forests of British Columbia, stolen timber is traded for a quick fix.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Why Do Schools Read Everyone’s Name at Graduation?
Members of the audience care about their loved one’s brief moment of glory—and no one else’s.
