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Emmylou and the EPA Take on Big Coal
Tough new standards may save Appalachia’s mountaintops.
August 2010
COVER STORY
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What We Can Learn: An Excerpt from Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?
How Europe builds better products for better lives.
Features
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Reforming Foreign Aid
Will the Obama administration fix a byzantine system?
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The Quiet Revolution
Venezuelans experiment with participatory democracy.
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Fighting an ‘un-American’ Policy
Mara Boyd took the fight against the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy to the White House lawn.
News
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Where the Press is Free to Die
Death of jailed journalist raises questions in Cameroon, one of Africa's most corrupt nations
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Tax Dodgers, Inc.
Congress tries—and so far fails—to combat "legal" corporate tax avoidance, which costs the U.S. Treasury billions each year
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Dear ITT Ideologist: McChrystal’s Predicament, and an Insecure Israeli
Dear ITT Ideologist, I'm a recently cashiered general, depressed because I can no longer play pro consul in... more
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Bad Air in ‘Green’ Buildings
Much-touted LEED-certified buildings may not be so perfect.
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Slavery in Our Time
For the first time, the U.S. government acknowledges modern-day slavery in the United States.
culture
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books
Female Rail Tale
Linda Grant Niemann goes beyond clichés to show what it's really like to work on the railroad.
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film
Todd Solondz’s Dystopia in Suburbia
In his sixth film, Life During Wartime, the film director offers another twisted modern fairy tale that revels in taboos.
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books
Howard Zinn’s Final Act of Protest
In his last book, the late, great historian—and former bombardier—examines his troubling actions during W.W. II.
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Culture
Social Media: Peril + Promise
Will social networks change our world, or just reinforce it?
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King of the Crazy Suit
Meet Jonathan Lee Riches, the most litigious man in history.
Columnists
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Back Talk
The End of Men, or the End of Reason?
The worst aspect of The Atlantic's recent cover story is its fundamental assumption: that any advances for women automatically mean the emasculation of men.
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Back Talk
U.S. Nuclear Plants: Old and Incontinent
Many nuclear plants are near the end of their life expectancy and show signs of dangerous deterioration. Their licenses have been renewed.
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Editorial
In an Afghan Hole? Dig Deeper
Like a hapless crew on a foundering ship, those holding the reins in the Afghan war have begun to scramble for reputation preservers. And they are scarce.
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