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Jim Bourg / Reuters HHS Secretary Defies Trump on Ebola Travel Ban
Trump advocated shutting infected Americans out of the country during the 2014 outbreak. But Tom Price praised Obama’s response and said the U.S. has a moral responsibility to care for its health volunteers abroad.
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Yoni Appelbaum Pondering How to Live Together
A question for the 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival: In a country of diverse ideologies, how will Americans coexist in peace and prosperity?
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C2 Photography HHS Secretary: The Congressional Budget Office Is ‘Not Accurate’
Tom Price questioned the ability of the agency to estimate the number of people who would lose health insurance under Congress’s Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan.
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Dressing Up for the Doctor
When Michele Norris, journalist and founder of the Race Card Project, goes to the doctor’s office, her mother calls her…
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Khaled Abdullah / Reuters The Danger of Yemen's Secret Prisons
Black sites in the war-ravaged country help ensure that it will remain fertile ground for terrorists for years to come.
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Iram Asim / AP 150 Die in Pakistan After an Oil Tanker Explodes
Hundreds of people had rushed to collect the leaking fuel before it ignited.
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Jason Reed / Reuters 'Of All the Categories of Fake News, Health News Is the Worst'
Misinformation about well-being is particularly rife, and particularly dangerous.
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Umit Bektas / Reuters Turkey's Identity Crisis
As politicians purposefully polarize their own society for political profit, the result is rage and violence.
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David Heald / Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Anicka Yi’s Strangely Persuasive World of Smells
The artist’s Guggenheim show uses olfactory experiments to overturn assumptions about gender, race, and hygiene.
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Provided by Matthew Ryan Inside Connecticut's Education-Funding Turmoil
Talk about money and test scores often obscures the hopes and struggles of the people who form under-resourced school communities.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Kabuki Theater of the AHCA
Normally, a bill this unpopular wouldn’t stand a chance. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s health-care bill seems designed to let reluctant senators amend it, and claim victory.
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AP Watergate Lawyer: The Trump Administration Would Fire Mueller 'At Their Peril'
Rufus Edmisten reflects on his time working on the Senate Watergate Committee.
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Scott Audette / Reuters How Democrats Gerrymandered Their Way to Victory in Maryland
New documents show how when given the opportunity, the Democratic Party was as ruthless as their GOP counterparts in trying to redistrict their rivals out of existence.
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China Daily / Reuters The Challenge of Fighting Mistrust in Science
Emphasizing the way scientific findings play out in people’s everyday lives could help.
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AP Most People Identify as Huggers, Rarely Hug
On the basic social disconnection that underlies addiction
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters A Cyberattack on Britain's House of Parliament
The incident left some members unable to access their email accounts.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters To Remember Random Errands, Turn Them Into a Story
A memory trick that plays on the human brain’s innate desire for narrative.
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Charles Rex Arbogast / AP How a Chicago Program Cut Violent Arrests in Half
Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy thinks emotional well-being can help reduce gun deaths.
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Naseem Zeitoon / Reuters What's the Problem With Al Jazeera?
The most popular news channel in the Arab world sits uneasily at the center of the Qatar crisis.
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Saul Loeb / Getty The Gulf's Demands on Qatar Look Designed to Be Rejected
As Washington loses patience with the Gulf crisis, the Saudi-led campaign resorts to extreme measures.
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Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP Mahershala Ali and GLOW: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of reading about arts and entertainment
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The Church of CrossFit
Gyms and other secular communities are starting to fill spiritual and social needs for many nonreligious people.
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Skip Bolen / OWN Queen Sugar Deepens Its Complex Family Portrait
In its second season, the Ava DuVernay-helmed show confidently tackles the messy bonds of siblings and the trickledown effects of racial profiling.
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Ye Aung Thu / Getty Would You Go to an Astronomy-Themed Resort?
A vacation spot in northwestern India bills itself as one of the best places in the country to see the Milky Way.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Kremlin's Election Meddling Is Paying Off
The president’s policies in office have aligned almost perfectly with Vladimir Putin’s goals.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Do Right-to-Carry Gun Laws Make States Safer?
In a new paper, researchers dispute a popular argument for arming everyday citizens. “There is not even the slightest hint in the data that [these] laws reduce violent crime,” they write.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters London Evacuates More Than 800 Households Due to Safety Concerns
The evacuations follow a deadly fire at the Grenfell Tower, where flammable cladding likely contributed to the deaths of at least 79 residents.
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Cara Owsley / AP Judges Declares Second Mistrial in DuBose Shooting Case
Two separate juries have been unable to agree on whether Ray Tensing is guilty of murder.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters It Took Two to Make Russian Meddling Effective
A Washington Post report on 2016 election interference raises the question: What could Obama have done differently?
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Anthony Fauci on Americans' Overblown Fear of Pandemics
Recalling the Ebola outbreak of 2014, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, lamented…
