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Mark Weaver The Reinvention of America
Americans don’t realize how fast the country is moving toward becoming a better version of itself.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Negligent Nomination of Ronny Jackson
The president’s pick to be secretary of veterans affairs stands accused of misconduct, but with a proper vetting process he would never have been in this position anyway.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor
A new study finds that Trump voters weren’t losing income or jobs. Instead, they were concerned about their place in the world.
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Gregory Reid The Hardest Job in the World
What if the problem isn’t the president—it’s the presidency?
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Photo 24 / Getty American Nostalgia on a Bun
The burger, shake, and fries—“enduring icons of American cuisine”— are used to symbolize abundance, accessibility, and dominance while ignoring the dark side of those values.
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Doug McLean How Gabriel García Márquez Created a World in a Sentence
The novelist Mary Morris explains how the opening line of One Hundred Years of Solitude shaped her path as a writer.
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Mark Makela / Reuters The Cowardice of Covering for Too-Violent Cops
A brutality case in New Jersey illustrates how the failures of law-enforcement agencies to police themselves can be thought of as failures of courage.
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Disney / Marvel Studios How Marvel Is Rewriting Its World Order
Ahead of Avengers: Infinity War, the extended cinematic universe has been sweeping away its status quo—and questioning the very nature of superheroism.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Alexa and the Age of Casual Rudeness
“Alexa, play Jeopardy!” my son will bark. And she follows his command.
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Raheb Homavandi / Reuters Europe's Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Iran Deal
And what happens if it fails
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Julia Rendleman / Kaiser Health News The City With the Most Expensive ACA Insurance in the U.S.
There’s only one individual-market carrier in Charlottesville, Virginia, and its premiums are too high for many residents to afford.
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Benjamin Rasmussen The Man Who Brought Down Lance Armstrong
Floyd Landis, a former teammate of the cyclist’s, just won more than $1 million in a legal case against Armstrong. Here are his thoughts on the suit, cycling, and his onetime rival.
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David Zalubowski / AP Why Is a Liberal LGBT Activist One of Trump's Nominees?
As the culture war between gay rights and religious liberty rages, conservatives are livid that the president renominated Chai Feldblum at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Arindam Dey / Getty An Indian Politician Claimed Ancient Hindus Invented the Internet
… then the Indian internet laughed at him.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Kellyanne Conway's Double Standard
A CNN interview this weekend provided a case study in the mendacious ways this White House defends itself.
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Sara Hylton / Reuters Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
Corporate goliaths are taking over the U.S. economy. Yet small breweries are thriving. Why?
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Yuri Cortez / AFP / Getty How the ‘Golden Age’ of Travel Transformed American Cuisine
At the turn of the 20th century, one adventurous botanist brought kale, mangoes, and thousands of other plants to the U.S.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?
A look at the available evidence
