The U.S. once regarded a standing army as a form of tyranny. Now it spends more on defense than all other nations combined.Photograph by Grant Cornett Sixty-two legislators sit on the House Armed Services Committee, the largest committee in Congress. Since January, 2011, when Republicans took control of the House, the committee has been chaired by Howard P. McKeon, who goes by Buck. He has never s
Tomorrow is the funeral for Aaron Swartz, the programmer and sometime activist who killed himself last Friday, while facing federal trial. No one knows, or will ever really know, what caused Swartz to take his own life. But his suicide, in the face of possible bankruptcy and serious prison time, has created a moment of clarity. We can rightly judge a society by how it treats its eccentrics and dev
Quijada’s invented language has two seemingly incompatible ambitions: to be maximally precise but also maximally concise.Photograph by Dan Winters / Typography By AJ Frackattack There are so many ways for speakers of English to see the world. We can glimpse, glance, visualize, view, look, spy, or ogle. Stare, gawk, or gape. Peek, watch, or scrutinize. Each word suggests some subtly different quali
The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.Photograph by George Skadding / Time Life Pictures / Getty “I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty,” by Upton Sinclair, is probably the most thrilling piece of campaign literature ever written. Instead of the usual flummery, Sinclair, the author of forty-seven books, inc
The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding.Photograph by Richard Avedon / “Salman Rushdie, London, England, September 26, 1994” / © 1994 The Richard Avedon Foundation 1989Afterward, when the world was exploding around him, he felt annoyed with himself for having forgotten the name of the BBC reporter who told him that his
In exchange for leniency, untrained informants are sent out to perform dangerous police operations with few legal protections.Illustration by Luke Shuman On the evening of May 7, 2008, a twenty-three-year-old woman named Rachel Hoffman got into her silver Volvo sedan, put on calming jam-band music, and headed north to a public park in Tallahassee, Florida. A recent graduate of Florida State, she w
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