
The Insourcing Boom
An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of manufacturing to the United States
James Fallows explains why the future of industry is in America, Jeffrey Goldberg makes the case for more guns, Ann Patchett describes her battle with Amazon, Isaac Chotiner laments Salman Rushdie's decline, and more
An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of manufacturing to the United States
How labor developments in China and new technology in the U.S. may reverse the decades-long relocation of American jobs to Asia
How do we reduce gun crime when Americans already own nearly 300 million firearms? Maybe by allowing more people to carry them.
When Nashville lost its only in-town bookstores, the author, a novelist, decided to step into the breach.
"My heart started beating rapidly after the third time I read the letter. I could have sat there and guessed for a hundred years and never come up with what my brother had to say." A short story
For a new theme park, Creationists (with a little help from a geneticist, some Amish men, and generous tax breaks) are building a replica of Noah’s ark—exactly as God instructed.
How the once-intimate sign-off is feminizing the workplace, for better or worse
In Silicon Valley, a new wave of tech companies is trying to enforce fun.
Students aren’t the only ones cheating—some professors are, too. Uri Simonsohn is out to bust them.
The Comedy Central star brings the Colosseum to your couch.
Intel's Genevieve Bell talks about why we adopt some gadgets and spurn others—and why tech companies underestimate female users.
The novelist's literary essays celebrated reading for the love of it.
The Atlantic's literary editor picks the five best of the crop.
Salman Rushdie’s artistic decline
An Alice Munro collection that's "autobiographical in feeling," if not in fact; Zadie Smith's uneven new novel; and more