Andrea Myklebust, one of Pepin County’s Democrats. | Photographs by Danny Wilcox Frazier Many Americans woke up after the election to discover that they lived in Trump Country. In one corner of Wisconsin, shocked liberals can’t escape an uneasy feeling: They were the reason why. January/February…

It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school’s principal, decided to try something extreme—by Finnish standards. One of his sixth-grade students, a Kosovo-Albanian boy, had drifted far…

Dan Gluibizzi It is a truism that America has become a more diverse country. It is also a beautiful thing to watch. Visitors from other countries, particularly those having trouble incorporating different ethnic groups and faiths, are amazed that we manage to pull it off. Not perfectly, of course,…

The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been in the room before. They were sombre, hollowed out, some fighting tears, humiliated by the defeat, fearful of autocracy’s…

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Stephen Lam / Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook employees have formed an unofficial task force to question the role their company played in promoting fake news in the lead-up to Donald Trump’s victory in the US election last week, amid a larger, national debate over the rise of fake and misleading…

Why did the forced removal of African Americans seem so plausible in Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912? Was it because it had all happened before? Detail from a map of Cherokee territory over time. The green line designates their territory at the point of their forced removal. Red towns were Cherokee…

At a meeting last month, Jared told his staff that the Observer needed to move on. “Kaplan is a classy guy, but he’s old-school,” Jared said. “If we were doing our jobs right, Gawker wouldn’t have a reason to exist. Curbed wouldn’t have a reason to exist. “Every Observer writer wants to be a…

Democrats can reclaim the “economic mantle,” Clinton said, adding, “I want to really marry the public and the private sector.” Credit Photograph by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker The basement of a hotel on Capitol Hill. A meeting room with beige walls and headachy light, cavernous enough to…

Carl Court / Getty Images On 29 November 2010, then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton stepped out in front of reporters to condemn the release of classified documents by WikiLeaks and five major news organisations the previous day. WikiLeaks' release, she said, “puts people’s lives in danger”,…

After fleeing ISIS-controlled Mosul, a family reaches the safety of a Kurdish encampment. As Iraqi and coalition forces invade Mosul, the last ISIS stronghold in Iraq, the grim details of the extremist group’s rule come to light. The Kurdish soldiers stood on a berm, next to a gunner’s dugout, in a…

Editor's note: This story contains explicit language. Theo Epstein's got a finger bleeding on his pick hand. There is blood on the strings and the fretboard, and he keeps hammering away on Pearl Jam and Led Zeppelin covers. He's sitting on a small orange amplifier, playing loud and fast. It's 1 in…

Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by the people who were on board. By Garrett M. Graff Eric Draper/George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum 27.8K Shares Nearly every American above a certain age…

Getty Fifteen years after 9/11, we're still entangled in the bad decisions America made following the disaster. But some in the CIA say the whole thing could have been over in six months. By Michael Hirsh Fifteen years ago, Americans given a glimpse of the future wouldn’t have been surprised to…

A little before 7 the other night, the prosecutor Marilyn Mosby stopped by my house in Baltimore for dinner. She was coming straight from work in one of her customary gray pantsuits, and because I was already nursing a beer, she took off her jacket with a sigh and poured herself a glass of white…

W hen I first started interviewing Chicago youth about their interactions with the police, I never expected that I would spend a year and a half embedded with one of the most notorious gangs in the city. I had devoted the first five years of my career as a sociologist to talking to homeless people…

The run-down mansion rising above the Freetown slum was the first giveaway, but it got even stranger. As Valentine Strasser’s home came into view, my guide screamed in Krio, “I go scared!” then yanked open the car door and bolted. He emerged 50 meters away, behind a tangle of banana trees. Fair…

Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama era, the ennobling language of campaign pundits prevailed. There was much discussion of “white working-class voters,” with whom the Democrats, and especially Barack…

Steeped in empowerment culture, young women don’t see a female president as that big a deal. Have they given up the fight too soon? By Joanna Weiss AP Photo 1.5K Shares Email The night Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination, as TV anchors gushed about the penultimate crack in the highest…

Why I Left the Right: How Studying Religion Made Me a Liberal It was January 20, 2001, and I was at George W. Bush’s inaugural ball. I had spent months campaigning for him, and it had not been easy. After the Florida electoral debacle complete with “hanging chads,” Katherine Harris (and her fifteen…

Usually, Jaime Prater felt excited on the first day of school. He’d get up early, put on the outfit he’d laid out the night before — he liked bow ties and sweater-vests — and hurry down the hall with the other kids in his building. But this morning in September 1989 felt different. This morning he…

Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass. Gundotra, described by colleagues we spoke with as…

(Illustration by Tim O’Brien) "Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of France knew he had been decisively defeated at a village called Waterloo, and he was now keen to…

Firefighters extinguishing a nail bomb explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse in 1970. By Marty Lederhandler/AP Images. Ever since 9/11, the threat of terrorist bombs on U.S. soil has become a major concern, drawing the attention of hordes of federal investigators and journalists. What few…

How Thomas Drummond, an Iowa newspaperman, ended up at the head of one of the last battles of the Civil War.

Even in the final months of the Civil War, Southern whites were buying and selling human beings.

Alongside slavery itself, the trade in human beings generated enormous profits. Its end, 150 years ago this week, must be remembered.

On Feb. 12, 1865, Henry Highland Garnet gave a searing sermon before the House and Senate. How did he get there?

Veterans of the conflict saw the gridiron as a perfect training ground for soldier-scholars.

James Baldwin: How to Cool It Read the landmark1968 Q&A on race in America. Most Popular By In Esquire's July 1968 issue, published just after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., the magazine talked to James Baldwin about the state of race relations in the country. In light of recent events in…

December 1864 saw the first issue of The Soldier’s Friend, which would exclusively serve disabled and wounded Union veterans.

Eric Jackson was sitting in his hotel room on Sea Island, Ga., watching his kids splash around in the pool, when he clicked "publish" on his latest blog post for Forbes.com. Jackson, an influential hedge-fund manager, had become fixated on Yahoo and the efforts of its chief executive, Marissa…

By Marc Ramirez | Staff Writer Photos by G.J. McCarthy | Staff Photographer Bob Welch wanted for his son what any good father would — the seeds of a positive

For six days in September 2012, some 300 participants came together at Sapienza University, in Rome, for the 10th International Congress of Coptic Studies. Among those presenting was Karen L. King. The author of five books, King is a highly respected specialist in early Christianity whose work…

Drake is the type of artist whose technical abilities make a noticeable jump with every release. When in late October he dropped three new tracks, a few members

Photo: Don O'Brien Deconversion isn’t easy. There’s backlash from family—confusion, anger, shame. It’s something I think about during the holiday season, especially. Christmastime can feel like an inundation of traditions left behind. In the world I grew up in, there were Advent Sundays and…

Larry Bird’s Greatest Shot Was the One He Didn’t Take The record shows that four decades ago, a wayward boy quit basketball at IU, then at another school. But that’s only part of the story. Larry Bird’s decision to walk away from the game didn’t just become the stuff of legend—it set him on the path…

Inside Oregons high-stakes Christmas tree industry, from fertilizer to ornaments.

The force is changing often reluctantly alongside the civilian society it serves.