FEATURES
The Fallacy of Endless Growth
What economists get wrong about the future.
By Christopher Ketcham; Photography by Alejandro Durán
Revising the Bible
Evolutionary biology meets Adam and Eve in the archives.
By Ginger Strand
The Top 30 Thinkers Under 30
This year’s most exciting young thinkers and advocates in policy and social justice.
By Rosie Spinks & Avital Andrews
Changing the World After 80
These change-makers are proving that you’re never too old to make a difference.
By Avital Andrews
Revolutions Hiding in Plain Sight
You can find a radical history in even the most commonplace objects. Here are four everyday things that represent a turn in the way we live.
By Malcolm Harris
PRIMER
Letter From the Editor
What Makes a Revolutionary Idea
By Nicholas Jackson
Since We Last Spoke
There’s a Name for That: The Invisibility Cloak Illusion
By Peter C. Baker
Since We Last Spoke
Quick Study: A Virtual Escape From Chronic Pain
By Tom Jacobs
The Small Stuff
Quick Study: Euphemisms Affect Parents’ Attitudes Toward Corporeal Punishment
By Tom Jacobs
Since We Last Spoke
Research Gone Wild: Power Poses Are Nonsense
By Sarah Witman
Know It All
Superfoods Aren’t Really All That Super
Why do we keep reaching for them as a quick health fix when the science says they’re not so special?
By Michael Fitzgerald
FIELD NOTES
March of the Refugees
By Kastalia Medrano
Jharia: India’s Coal Capital
Photograph by Johnny Haglund
Sharing a Sunset at Arches National Park
By Eva Holland
Goseong, South Korea: Watching Over the DMZ
Photograph by Tomas Van Houtryve
Dinner at a Prison in Lira, Uganda
Photograph by Lynsey Addario
Embodying the Spirit of Change in North Lawndale, Chicago
By Peter C. Baker
THE FIX
This Native Tribe Is Reintroducing a Disappeared Species on Its Own Land
And the federal government can’t do much about it.
By Jimmy Tobias
Inside the Mind of America’s Favorite Gun Researcher
John Lott is a one-man pro-gun research machine whose work has been cited nearly 200 times by the National Rifle Association. The problem? Many of his peers have major misgivings about his methods.
By Peter Moskowitz
THE CULTURE PAGES
Culture Features
A Library as Large as Africa
By Aaron Bady
Scenes: The Refugees’ Theatre
As the population of displaced Syrians swells in Germany, one storytelling series aims to expedite integration through first-person narrative.
By Morgan Meaker
Scenes: Standing Up for Transgender Acceptance
The history of man and climate, written into the bedrock of Mongolia.
By Kevin Stark
Pacific Standard Picks: Twitter and Tear Gas
By Kristina Kutateli
Guest Programmer: Anita Kunz
As Told to Katie Kilkenny
Shelf Help: The Boy Who Loved Too Much
By Peter C. Baker
Shelf Help: Islamophobia and Racism in America
By Peter C. Baker
Book Reviews: How the U.S. Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein’s magisterial new book tracks how the government segregated America—and how new policy, and new education, could save us.
By Peter C. Baker
One Last Thing: Party Plates
By Meghan Walsh; Photograph by Jarren Vink
