Here’s the Beef with Chicken from China
The Trump USDA favored a powerful lobby over American food safety
By James McWilliams
Here’s the Beef with Chicken from China
The Trump USDA favored a powerful lobby over American food safety
By James McWilliams
ARTICLES
What Is Freedom of Conscience?
Its long history in Europe and England prepared the American Revolution. Where has this trait gone?
By Marilynne Robinson
Tuskegee Truth Teller
Peter Buxtun, like many medical whistleblowers, got little thanks for exposing a notorious scandal
By Carl Elliott
The Chief of Entertainers
Trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie was a jazz prophet, a musical genius, and a scatterbrained whirlwind
By David Grogan
Tales of War and Redemption
Even in the face of the ultimate human failing, we must be responsive to suffering and attuned to joy
By Phil Klay
“We’ll Do Everything We Can”
Sometimes, to save a patient, doctors must move beyond textbooks and embrace the ineffable
By Patrick Tripp
What Is Freedom of Conscience?
Its long history in Europe and England prepared the American Revolution. Where has this trait gone?
By Marilynne Robinson
Tuskegee Truth Teller
Peter Buxtun, like many medical whistleblowers, got little thanks for exposing a notorious scandal
By Carl Elliott
The Chief of Entertainers
Trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie was a jazz prophet, a musical genius, and a scatterbrained whirlwind
By David Grogan
Tales of War and Redemption
Even in the face of the ultimate human failing, we must be responsive to suffering and attuned to joy
By Phil Klay
“We’ll Do Everything We Can”
Sometimes, to save a patient, doctors must move beyond textbooks and embrace the ineffable
By Patrick Tripp
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
poetry
Four Poems 
“The Analytic Hour,” “How to Mourn the Dead,” “Elegy for India’s Daughter,” and “When you are old, father”
By Nausheen Eusuf
anniversaries
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fiction
commonplace book
book reviews
Bungle in the Jungle
A new biography considers what might have been in Indochina
By Charles Trueheart
