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Michelle Obama says hello to sixth graders from Fairfax, Viginia's Willow Springs Elementary School during a surprise visit to the Decatur House in Washington, D.C., on May 22nd, 2013. The Decatur House is a National Trust for Historic Preservation Site that received a $ 1 million grant to fund educational programming.

PS Picks: The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s ‘Preservation Personals’ Feature

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore

Reinventing the Special Olympics

Moving from a segregated to a unified model is a major shift for the 50-year-old organization. But do the new changes go far enough?

David M. Perry

PS Picks: HBO’s Adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore

The Limits of Home Cooking

A richly reported new book offers powerful insights into the cooking habits—and daily struggles—of working-class Americans.

Peter C. Baker

How Health Insurers, Big Pharma, and Slanted Science Are Ruining Good Mental Health Care

In Saving Talk Therapy, Enrico Gnaulati argues that in-depth, long-term, interpersonal psychotherapy remains one of the best tools for alleviating emotional suffering.

Peter C. Baker

PS Picks: Wendy Guerra’s ‘Revolution Sunday’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore

Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married

In Duped, Abby Ellin explores what people need from each other, and the lies and suspensions of disbelief that sometimes help them get it.

Peter C. Baker

Objects That Matter: Milk

In 2009, researchers found that cows with names produce more milk, confirming the quaint Wisconsin dairy adage, "Speak to a cow as you would to a lady."

Emily Moon

PS Picks: Josie Rourke’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Angela Serratore

Author and Illustrator MariNaomi Examines the Lives of Complex Characters

We spoke to MariNaomi about what she recommends reading, watching, and listening to.

Katie Kilkenny