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A Culture of Violence Revisiting the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in a time of police shootings and church murders James Bennet The Atlantic Monthly September 2015 Issue In this issue, we’ve published the winner of the annual high-school essay contest that The Atlantic is conducting with the College Board. Nicolas Yan, who is 17, was certainly not the only young writer to..

Africans in America In the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the history of a people. By Chad L. Williams| HUMANITIES, November/December 2013 | Volume 34, Number 6 Host, writer, and producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. —courtesy WNET + Click on image to enlarge. Photographic portrait of W.E.B. Du Bois taken by J. E. Purdy. —Library of Congress ..

How Dare You Say That! The Evolution of Profanity From ‘Odsbodikins’ to ‘belly,’ the banned words of our ancestors look as bizarre today as tribal rituals Illustration: Kristian Hammerstad By John H. McWhorter July 17, 2015 5:28 p.m. The Wall Street Journal At street level and in popular culture, Americans are freer with profanity now than ever before—or so it mig..

How Do You Speak American? Mostly, Just Make Up Words by Sarah Laskow 17 Jul 2015 Atlas Obscura John F. Kennedy knew how to speak American. (Image: NASA/Wikimedia) Nearly a century ago, just after World War I had ended, there was a groundswell of linguistic patriotism in America. All of a sudden, scholars, writers and politicians were interested in studying, defining and promo..

The 'fourth wave' Asian immigrants changing US economy, society HIROYUKI KOTAKE, Nikkei Washington bureau chief July 9, 2015 12:00 am JST Rockville, Maryland, has seen an influx of Chinese and Indian immigrants recently. WASHINGTON -- The face of the U.S. is changing fast, and it's looking more and more Asian. As more people from countries in the region, especially China and I..

Has America Given Up on the Dream of Racial Integration? Across the country, communities are starkly divided, with African Americans living in one section and whites living in another, and a lot of people seem to be okay with that. Seattle Municipal Archives AlanaSemuels The Atlantic Monthly Jun 19, 2015 BEAUMONT, Tex.—There are termites everywhere in this first-floor apa..

"살점 하나하나 다 아프지만 용서할게"…美증오범죄 유족 오열<연합> 세계일보 2015-06-20 16:13:37 사우스캐롤라이나 관행 따라 법정서 차례로 가해자에게 발언 백인 청년의 권총 난사로 희생된 흑인들의 가족들이 보여준 애끊는 고통과 힘겨운 용서가 미국 사회를 다시 울렸다. 19일(현지..

An American Odyssey: Stunning Color Photos of the United States from the Late 1800s Vintage Everyday These rediscovered Photochrom and Photostint postcard images from the private collection of Marc Walter were produced by the Detroit Photographic Company between 1888 and 1924. Using a photolithographic process that predated the autochrome by nearly 20 years, they offered peopl..

Why Women Choose Not to Have Children Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic Monthly Apr 17, 2015 As detailed in essays by 16 different writers, both male and female: because they don't want to, and because not wanting to is perfectly reasonable Lauren Giordano/The Atlantic Pope Francis is widely believed to be a cool Pope—a huggable, Upworthyish, meme-ready, self-deprecating leader..

The Complexity of Being Richard Nixon Often remembered as a brooding, vengeful, and almost cartoonish figure, his life was far more complicated than its caricature. Wikimedia Evan Thomas The Atlantic Monthly Jun 15, 2015 Richard Nixon liked to be alone. He rarely used the Oval Office, preferring his hideaway office in the Old Executive Office Building. A poor sleeper, he would ..