Ta-Nehisi Coates on mass incarceration, why your boss may be irrelevant, the case for fathers as primary parents, naked people on reality TV, and more
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.
San Diego police believe they’ve finally cracked the case of a 14-year-old girl murdered in 1984. But what if they’re wrong?
David Hume, the Buddha, and a search for the Eastern roots of the Western Enlightenment
The well-being of children, the status of women, and the happiness of men will depend on whether more fathers are willing to take on primary parenting roles.
The Founders misread history and established a dysfunctional system of government. A case for a little less reverence.
A scientific look at people’s obsessions with besting their peers
In the fight over the team’s name, Ray Halbritter is an adversary unlike any the NFL has faced before.
A radical experiment at Zappos may herald the emergence of a new, more democratic kind of organization.
Why some doctors are writing prescriptions for time outdoors
The promises—and pitfalls—of the emerging technology
You can walk, bike, or ride a bus across Tilikum Crossing in Portland—but you can’t drive.
A visit to Heyse’s Tank Driving Fun School in eastern Germany
The Confederate flag has been taken down at South Carolina’s Capitol. Why not get J. Edgar Hoover’s name off the Bureau’s headquarters?
A very short book excerpt
The curious boom of broadcasted genitalia
An epic from Italy about female friendship and fate
Meet the bald Norwegians and other unknowns who actually create the songs that top the charts.
The Supreme Court justice may have left a stronger legacy off the bench.
Larissa MacFarquhar writes about do-gooders who “open themselves to a sense of unlimited, crushing responsibility.”
How did mass incarceration come to be a consensus political issue in America?
Responses and reverberations
What was the most consequential sibling rivalry of all time?
