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- Cover Story
Revert to Mean
Petty. Weak on policy. And yet New Mexico’s governor has been hailed as the GOP’s next big hope. Sound familiar?
- FEATURES
Empty Nest Syndrome
Disappearing puffins, stray whales, deviating currents: Something is very wrong on the East Coast.
The Man Behind Newsweek
Why are the magazine’s new owners so anxious to hide their ties to an enigmatic Christian figure?
That ’70s Wage
Fast-food workers are stuck in a time warp.
Get Out of Jail Fee
Lobbyists, guns, and money: inside the shadowy—and very well-connected—bail bonds industry.
“There’s No Law for Me Here”
What happens when you refuse to become an FBI informant? You don’t want to find out.
Take This Job and Unplug It
What’s the answer to the stupefying off-hours digital creep? Your boss, for one.
- OutFront
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Hillary’s helpers…
Sex, Drugs, and Little Rock
…and her vast left-wing conspiracy
Law and Odor
This little piggy went to court.
Moral Majority?
Southern progressives bring morality back.
Texts to Syria
Texting Syria.
Warmth and Peace
Think climate change isn’t a national-security issue? Ask these historical winners and losers.
I Wanna Testify
And the Oscar for best testimony goes to…
Broccocalypse Now
California brownin’.
- MIXED MEDIA
The Last Kind Words
Back to the Old West with author Larry McMurtry
Shredders and Shedders
Heavy metal ♥ kittehz
Into the Crazy Closet
Cartoonist Roz Chast comes out of her “Crazy Closet.”
National Lampoon
Funny or Die‘s serious comedy.
- FOOD + HEALTH
Google’s Magic Bus
Is the Google bus green?
The Wilted Age
Get ready for $7 broccoli.
Contributors
1 Patrick Caldwell checked out a fundraiser at DC’s premier gay dance club to report on Hillary Clinton’s die-hard supporters (“Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow“).
2 Bridget Huber (“Law and Odor“) is an 11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism fellow at UC-Berkeley.
3 Clive Thompson (“Take This Job and Unplug It“) claims to have abstained from checking email on weekends for the past two years.
Rowan Jacobsen (“Empty Nest Syndrome“) spent 10 days covered in fish guts aboard the Henry Bigelow, a NOAA trawler, to report on the warming Gulf of Maine; the article’s map is by 4 Karen Minot, who has produced 28 graphics for the magazine since 2007.
Ben Dooley (“The Man Behind Newsweek“) covers politics and security in Asia for a Japanese wire service.
5 Gregg Segal’s photography (“That ’70s Wage“) has appeared in Time, Esquire, Fortune, and GQ.
ilovedust (“Get Out of Jail Fee”) is an English design company with studios in London and Portsmouth.
The most trouble 6 Nick Baumann had while traveling to meet a source entangled in a terrorism investigation (“‘There’s No Law for Me Here’“) was slipping in the shower while in Nairobi and busting a rib; David Degner lives in Cairo and has extensively photographed Egypt’s recent tumult.
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