The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.

A fast-growing Filipino chain is serving burgers and chicken that seem like typical American fare—until you taste them.

What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia

What the photographer Edward Burtynsky found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia

Inside the civil war between the Ivy League and the South

He spent his life trying to prove that he was a loyal U.S. citizen. It wasn’t enough.

He spent his life trying to prove that he was a loyal U.S. citizen. It wasn’t enough.

How Joseph Kurihara lost his faith in America

He spent his life trying to prove that he was a loyal U.S. citizen. It wasn’t enough.

For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.

In the mangroves with Florida’s poet of excess and grift

Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

Why would an armed officer stand by as a school shooting unfolds?

The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

“Nobody has generated more goodwill than Ringo,” says the producer T Bone Burnett. “Not a single person in the world.”

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment

Nothing I had done before could match the sense of accomplishment and sheer exhilaration.

Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography.

Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography.

James Murdoch on mind games, sibling rivalry, and the war for the family media empire

Photographs of the worst drought in the river basin’s recorded history

In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does America owe Hawai‘i now?

Survivalists, drifters, and divorceés across a resurgent wilderness