Illustration by Robert Beatty America Is Telling Itself a Lie About Roadkill Your car may have just run over the last of an endangered species. Ben Goldfarb
Illustration by The Atlantic; Sources: Getty. Why Would Anyone Become a Politician? Michael Ignatieff
What China’s Slowdown Really Means for the West Xi Jinping is still determined to compete, if not by becoming richer, then through other, possibly more destabilizing means. Michael Schuman Noel Celis / AFP / Getty
A Knockout Technique for Achieving More Happiness The best lesson from Mike Tyson’s boxing career is not about ring craft; it’s about having the right goals in life. Arthur C. Brooks Illustration by Jan Buchczik
George Eliot’s Subversive Vision of Marriage Unlike Jane Austen, the novelist was most interested in what happens after “I do.” Ann Hulbert Miki Lowe
The Thrill of Defeat My life has been shaped by watching the Detroit Lions lose. Who will I be if they start winning? Tim Alberta Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Courtesy of Tim Alberta.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. How Telling People to Die Became Normal Merciless trolling is a fact of online life that may never go away. Kaitlyn Tiffany