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- Cover Story
The Great Florida Experiment
Mosquitoes. TB. Sewage in the water. What the tea party has unleashed in the Sunshine State.
- FEATURES
Full Green Ahead
Damn the deniers, the doubters, and the bean counters. For the Navy, climate change is just another enemy.
Whose Fault?
For years, seismologists wondered whether frackers caused earthquakes. Then a 5.6 temblor shook the field to its core.
Played
In the Dominican Republic, is MLB giving kids the chance of a lifetime—or running a baseball sweatshop?
The Bonner Party
African safaris, Nazi art, and dinner with Indiana Jones: inside the shadowy nonprofit that throws some of DC’s finest junkets.
Forgotten Fruit
Industrial agriculture robbed us of the Blake, the Harrison, and the Fletcher Sweet. John Bunker is on a quest to bring back the apples that made America great.
- Outfront
10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down
Busting pro-gun myths
Who Really Calls the Shots at the NRA?
The NRA’s big shots
How High Is Too High to Drive?
Rolling, stoned
Glamorous Photos of Kids Smoking
Kids smoke the darndest things!
Walmart Workers Get Organized—Just Don’t Say the U-Word
Walmart’s union-lite
Inside the Radical Plan to Fight Foreclosures With Eminent Domain
Foreclosure solution—or crazy talk?
Quiz: Can You Diagnose America’s Sickest Presidents?
All the presidents’ ailments
- MIXED MEDIA
“Game of Thrones” Has Succeeded Beyond Its Creators’ Wildest Dreams
Geeking out with the Game of Thrones creators
Never Before Seen Photos From Legendary Street Photographer Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand’s street shots
Karen Russell’s Fantastical World
Karen Russell on writing fantastical worlds
Chris Kluwe Won’t Turn You Into a Lustful Cockmonster
Punter and profanity guru Chris Kluwe
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Book, film, and music reviews
- FOOD + HEALTH
Wheat Is Murder?
Gluten-free: health fix or fad?
Life of P
Approaching peak dirt
Contributors
The two-day adrenaline high of landing on and being catapulted off a Navy carrier had 1 Julia Whitty ready to enlist (“Full Green Ahead“).
2 Stephanie Mencimer envies Sunshine State reporters, who will never lack for interesting material (“The Great Florida Experiment“); her story is accompanied by Scott Anderson‘s first painting of a bikini-clad woman—and he really hopes it won’t be his last.
Michael Behar (“Whose Fault?“) has been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing; when not traveling on photo assignments, Ben Sklar parks his pickup in Austin, Texas.
Copy editor Ian Gordon (“Played“; “Kicking Ass“) reported on swimming and diving, lacrosse, tennis, basketball, baseball, and football for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel; he later covered exhibition log sawing for ESPN the Magazine.
Former Mother Jones intern 3 Corbin Hiar (“The Bonner Party“), the son of an airline employee, was quite familiar with free travel before he began reporting on congressional junkets; in 2011, illustrator 4 Victor Juhasz embedded as a combat artist with a medical helicopter unit deployed to Afghanistan.
5 Rowan Jacobsen (“Forgotten Fruit“) is writing an “apple bestiary,” due out in 2014;
6 Séan Alonzo Harris teaches photography at the Maine Media Workshops.
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