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- Cover Story
Overshared
Think you’re friends with Facebook? Think again.
- FEATURES
The Troll on the Hill
Rising GOP star Justin Amash is battling government spying—and his party’s leadership—one tweet at a time.
Privacy Is Dead. Long Live Transparency!
Modest proposal: Accept surveillance is inevitable, but demand that all data be public.
The Incredible, Hypothetical Egg
Food hackers are taking on factory farms with imposter animal products that’ll make you forget the real stuff.
Triumph of the Drill
Presidents hate them. Industry execs say they’re pointless. So why are we still giving billions in tax breaks to Big Oil?
From Russia, With Love
Laid off and broke, more surburban families are peddling pot to get by.
Friend or Foe?
Why did a 17-year-old, poetry-writing cop kill three Marines? No one knows, but his tale may be key to Afghanistan’s future.
- OutFront
His Excellency Will See You Now
Do Catholic bishops control your doctor?
Bad Acronyms: Congress Keeps Rejecting Ordinary Names to Yield Memorable Statutes
When Congress spells to sell.
Flight Club
The birdmen of Scotland.
Last Rights
Killing Jesus.
The Anchor of Astroturf
Campbell Brown’s classroom chicanery.
Unhappy Meals
Fast-food wages: millions and millions disserved.
Ask a FISA Court Judge!
Classified counseling.
The Spy Who Billed Me
How Wall Street snoops on Capitol Hill.
Medium Cool
Covering climate change.
- MIXED MEDIA
Time on Her Side
Prison talk with Orange Is the New Black author Piper Kerman.
Person, Place, or Icon
Nouns with friends.
Allie Brosh’s Great Depression
Allie Brosh draws depression.
“The Soul Is Contained in the Voice”
StoryCorps’ Dave Isay on recording souls and sounds.
Ladies First
From A to Z with Jezebel‘s Anna Holmes.
- FOOD + HEALTH
The Loin in Winter
Season’s eatings.
Are We Becoming China’s Factory Farm?
This little piggy went to China!
Contributors
Stephanie Mencimer (“His Excellency Will See You Now“) was introduced to both grammar and family planning by Catholic nuns.
1 Tim Murphy (“The Troll on the Hill“) crashed on the couch of one of Rep. Justin Amash’s high school classmates.
2 Sydney Brownstone (“The Incredible, Hypothetical Egg“), a former Mother Jones editorial fellow, writes for Fast Company. The story’s illustration is by 3 Ross MacDonald, whose first job was on a chicken farm; the photograph is by Matthew Reamer.
Though he’s now a DC bike-share addict, reporter Andy Kroll (“Triumph of the Drill“) fondly remembers pumping gas into his first car, a hand-me-down Geo Prizm.
Hannah Levintova (“From Russia, With Love“) was born in Boston but grew up speaking Russian at home; in November, she will report from Moscow on an exchange program sponsored by the International Center for Journalists.
4 Mads Nissen decided to document Russia’s LGBT scene after traveling to the country to teach narrative photography.
5 Matthieu Aikins (“Friend or Foe?“) has covered Afghanistan since 2008 for publications including The Atlantic, GQ, and Harper’s.
6 Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini worked as an assistant on New York City fashion shoots before becoming a conflict photographer.
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