Tag: cover story
Jake Tapper: Finally, Justice for C. J. Rice
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C. J. Rice was first arraigned in 2011 on the 11th floor of 1301 Filbert Street, a towering, steel-framed criminal-court complex two miles from the South Philadelphia neighborhood where he’d grown up. In 2013, on the fifth floor of the same building, Rice was tried on four counts of attempted murder, found guilty, and sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison.
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Peak Season” | The New Yorker
A watermelon sampled in summertime is a watermelon at the height of its powers. Though our modern existence gives us access to most foods year-round, a fruit or vegetable tasted in its season—a peach, a tomato, an ear of corn—is a pleasure apart. In her new cover for the August 14, 2023, issue, the architect and artist Victoria Tentler-Krylov turns her attention to one of the urban spaces that most rewards us when we are citybound in August: the green
A Sweet, Surrealistic TV Show
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Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained.
Today’s special guest is Atlantic associate editor Morgan Ome. Morgan recently reported on the ripple effects of the U.S. government’s reparations program for Japanese Americans, and
Gayle Kabaker’s “In The Swim of Things”
As record levels of heat press upon many regions of the world, our thoughts have turned to finding ways to cool off. We have traded our sneakers for sandals, turned our fans up high, and sought out spots near bodies of water. In her new summer cover, Gayle Kabaker depicts what seems like the ideal refreshing spot: standing in shimmering water, looking out over a pristine landscape. I talked to the artist about why the tropics make her feel inspired,
The 35 Best Podcasts of 2022
Widespread remote work may have changed where people listened to podcasts, but many are back to their prior routines and hitting “Play” like it’s 2019. Fittingly, certain trends from yesteryear have stuck around for this resurgence: The audio space is still packed with true crime, which is often entertaining yet rarely remarkable. Shows about right-wing extremists and conspiracy theories are still popular. (Now, though, we’re finally hearing about the left’s fringe, too.) But a lot of what’s emerging in 2022
Cover Story: Investigating the U.S. Government’s Family-Separation Policy
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, joined staff writer Caitlin Dickerson to discuss her cover story, a years-long investigation into the secret history of the Trump administration’s family-separation policy. Dickerson’s story argues that separating children was not an unintended side effect, as previously claimed, but its core intent. How did officials work to keep families apart longer? Did they obscure the truth to both Congress and the public? What will happen if the Trump administration is restored to
Sheryl Sandberg and the Crackling Hellfire of Corporate America
In publishing, there are some books that are too big to fail. Very early on you get the message that this is a Major and Very Important Book. In 2013, that book was Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, which sold more than 1.5 million copies in its first year. She was the chief operating officer of Facebook, back when most of us had no understanding of the platform’s fearsome powers—in the halcyon
The Myth of the Golden Years
“You’ll want to read this,” my wife said, handing me the Sunday Boston Globe. The cover story that week in late September 2020 was about a 62-year-old woman who had colon cancer that had metastasized. She died in a local hospital; her husband was also in poor health and could not take care of her at home. After she died, he moved into an area facility. Reading of someone so close to my own age succumbing to a highly