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Chet Strange / Getty The Family Weekly: 20 Years After Columbine
Plus: Long-distance friendships, messy conversations about race with an interracial family, and how to raise a boy
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Mark Wilson / Getty The Perverse Paradox of the Mueller Report
Donald Trump’s outrageous behavior described by the special counsel is, at this point, so deeply familiar that it has lost its power to outrage.
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Kate Warren The French Ambassador Is Retiring Today. Here’s What He Really Thinks About Washington.
Gérard Araud says that Trump is right about trade. Kushner is “extremely smart” but has “no guts.” And John Bolton’s not so bad, actually.
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Kevin Moloney / Liaison / Getty / ERIC ... The Columbine Blueprint
As the first school shooting to become a nationwide media spectacle, Columbine shaped a generation of mass-consumed tragedies.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Mueller Report Could Alienate the Voters Republicans Need
The special counsel’s findings validate the concerns of anyone who feared how Donald Trump would wield presidential power.
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Reuters / Elijah Nouvelage Who’s Really Buying Property in San Francisco?
A lot of software developers, according to an unprecedented new analysis.
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Michele Tantussi / Getty The Books Briefing: Money, Money, Money
Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Wenjia Tang When Your Friend Moves to the Other Side of the World
“It did come as a shock when she told me that she was leaving. It was like, Well, we’ve only barely begun.”
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Dave J Hogan / Getty The Predator That Makes Great White Sharks Flee in Fear
Better to run than to have your liver squeezed out.
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Screen Media Films Terry Gilliam Has Finally Slain His Giant
Released at last after decades of mishaps, the director’s latest film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, will fascinate his fans—but might frustrate more casual viewers.
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Courtesy of Bre Hushaw The Helmet That ‘Resets’ Your Brain
Magnetic stimulation is helping some people with depression—but the $12,000 treatment is also being unleashed in untested ways.
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Rufus Cox / Getty The ‘Cuddle Hormone’ Might Help America Take On the Obesity Epidemic
The brain chemical oxytocin appears to make people feel full and reduce overeating. Can it encourage weight loss?
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Chet Strange / Getty High School Was Different Before Columbine
The year 1999 is, for many, a bright line dividing two divergent teen experiences.
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Tamara Shopsin Why Grown-Ups Keep Talking Like Little Kids
Embracing your inner child is comforting and fun—and just might revitalize the English language.
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Leah Millis / Reuters No One Listens to the President
Trump keeps issuing orders, and staffers keep ignoring them because they’re illegal or unwise. It’s an unsustainable situation—but it shows no sign of abating.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Trump’s Guardrails Are Gone
The president’s more pliant senior advisers might end up indulging his ultimately self-sabotaging behavior.
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Alex Brandon / AP What the Mueller Report Reveals About the Presidency
Almost 50 years after Watergate, it’s still exceedingly difficult to hold a president accountable.
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters The Real Illegal Immigration Crisis Isn’t on the Southern Border
Focusing on asylum seekers who cross land borders ignores the real problem: people who overstay their visas.
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Douglas Sacha / Getty The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s
In more than a dozen academic fields—largely STEM related—not a single black student earned a doctoral degree in 2017.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Strategic Move That Gave Bernie Sanders a Fundraising Edge
The 2020 Democrats are confronting the cost of campaign-finance purity.
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Joe Biden Is Running for President
The former vice president has finally decided he’s in, and he’s announcing in less than a week. Now he just has to finish putting a campaign together.
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The Atlantic Daily: Punting on the Obstruction Question
A case for the Mueller report as an impeachment referral. Plus: Georgetown students vote on reparations, the pleasure of repeating activities, and more
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Politics & Policy Daily: It’s (Finally) Mueller Time
Everything you need to know about the 448-page special counsel’s report.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / Katie Martin ... By Protecting the Presidency, Mueller Has Hurt the Country
The special counsel should have offered an opinion on whether Trump criminally obstructed justice.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Democrats’ Plan to Summon Robert Mueller
The special counsel isn’t likely to reveal information that his report has kept confidential. But lawmakers could try to press him on any disagreements with the attorney general.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Mueller’s Damning Portrait of Trump
The special counsel’s report shows a president who lies, acts rashly, and is routinely ignored by his own staff.
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Goddess of Fire
After a Hawaiian park ranger discovers his family ties to an ancient deity, he begins a process of self-discovery.
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Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock / Getty / The ... The Mueller Report Is an Impeachment Referral
The special counsel has concluded he can neither charge nor clear the president. Only Congress can now resolve the allegations against him.
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François Mori / AP The Indelible Awfulness of E. L. James’s The Mister
The author’s follow-up to her Fifty Shades series is hopelessly retrograde and dismally unentertaining.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump Still Hasn’t Condemned Russia for Meddling in the 2016 Election
The president has denied wrongdoing, played the victim, and refrained from criticizing Russia’s role in the election.
