Paying to Be Locked Up
Private prison companies treat immigrant detainees like convicted criminals—and reap huge profits from the people they hold
By Keramet Reiter Monday, December 3, 2018
New Zealand: Beauty and the Beef
Will the nation’s identity continue to be pastoral, or will its urbanites create a hip young image of environmental awareness?
By Gwyneth Kelly Monday, December 3, 2018
The Delta Blues
A photographer documents former boomtowns in the South
By Naomi Shavin Monday, December 3, 2018
A Pleasure to Read You
Shouldn’t literature enchant, surprise, and teach us? And to make this happen, shouldn’t we be the most expert readers we can be?
By Arthur Krystal Monday, December 3, 2018
Fighting the Endless War
Four questions about the future of the U.S. military
By Andrew J. Bacevich Monday, December 3, 2018
Where the Sun Finally Set
A new look at the island empire’s prize possession
By Nisid Hajari Monday, December 3, 2018
The British in India by David Gilmour
Black Lives and the Boston Massacre
John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve always understood it, the ultimate
expression of principle and the rule of law
By Farah Peterson Monday, December 3, 2018
No Harmony in the Heartland
Two small towns in northeast Iowa are caught up in the national struggle over immigration
By Tom Zoellner Monday, December 3, 2018
Of Faith and Tragedy
A scholar of early Christianity on how her work informed her life
By B. D. McClay Monday, December 3, 2018
Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels
License to Thrive?
Ride-hailing services are prospering. So why aren’t their drivers?
By Rachel Adams Monday, December 3, 2018
Enigma From the East
A Soviet émigré’s never-ending battle to be understood
By Gary Saul Morson Monday, December 3, 2018
Between Two Millstonesby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; translated by Peter Constantine
Ancient Sites Beneath the Sea
Archaeologists are enlisting high-tech tools to study prehistoric “drowned sites”
By Brad Edmondson Monday, December 3, 2018
The Sleeper
In a rural hospital, a patient passes the night without knowing how lucky he is to have avoided death
By Frank Huyler Monday, December 3, 2018
Whiskey Foxtrot One-One
My father was training to fight a war, but his real battle was with himself
By Jon Zobenica Monday, December 3, 2018
Screened at Birth
The science of newborn gene sequencing
By Marcus A. Banks Monday, December 3, 2018
The Guru of Athens
Can age-old philosophy lead the way to happiness?
By Caroline Alexander Monday, December 3, 2018
Aristotle's Wayby Edith Hall
Seven New Poems by Walt Whitman 
“Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman,” “Let Them Say Whatever They Want,” “Returning to the Sea-Shore,” “I Hear It Is Charged Against Me,” “Like a Ghost I Returned,” and “Some Tuesdays I Go to Lisbon”
By Joseph Harrison Monday, December 3, 2018
Launching the Greatest Fleet
How American war surplus helped build the world’s most successful merchant marine
By John Psaropoulos Monday, December 3, 2018
Making Himself at Home
A German-born composer and his English oratorios
By Sudip Bose Monday, December 3, 2018
Handel in Londonby Jane Glover
Come to the Cabaret
Remembering Mabel Mercer, whose voice was intimate and wise
By Willard Spiegelman Monday, December 3, 2018
