Cover Story
The Virtue of an Educated Voter
The Founders believed that a well-informed electorate preserves our fragile democracy and benefits American society as a whole
by Alan Taylor
Articles
Chicago Hope
Can the collaboration between a progressive boarding school and a big-city charter academy transform American Public High School Education?
by Lincoln Caplan
Writing the Unimaginable
When future generations look back at the fiction of our time, what will they make of the failure to address the crisis of climate change?
by Amitav Ghosh
Put a Bird on It
How did a beguiling South American hummingbird end up in the basement of a Pennsylvania museum?
by Erik Anderson
Turbulence
Death can come at any time, from above or below, but life requires putting fear aside
by Brandon Lingle
Thine as Ever, P. T. Barnum
A scholar offers three utterly fictitious letters he wishes the famous showman had written
by A. H. Saxon
Little Bowls of Colors
Writing in a foreign language can reveal secrets long buried in our mother tongue
by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough
Departments
Editor's Note
Letter From …
Tuning Up
American Places
Poetry
Works in Progress
Fiction
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
A Life Written in Invisible Ink
In her rebellious and much-celebrated poetry, Adrienne Rich both deciphered and created the feminist world she inhabited
