What Healthy Food Is the Tastiest?

Hamilton Nolan · 04/04/14 01:35PM

Some food—cake, pie, pizza, nachos—tastes great. Some food—wheatgrass, chia seeds, kale—is healthy. But what one food tastes the best while still being healthy?

The "Black Tunnel" of Long Term Unemployment

Hamilton Nolan · 04/04/14 11:50AM

Long term unemployment is a twofold curse. Not only does it rob a person of their livelihood; it also makes them less likely to be hired again. That should not be the case. Here's a good reminder of why.

Americans Buying Less Mundane Crap

Hamilton Nolan · 04/04/14 10:13AM

"Consumer packaged goods" is the technical term for everything you buy when you go to "the store" to "get some stuff." For years now, you, the consumer, have been buying less of this stuff. What gives?

Sarah Hedgecock · 04/04/14 10:09AM

A pigeon rests on a wild iguana in a tree inside Seminario Park in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Thursday. Pigeons coexist with the wild iguanas at this park in the middle of the city surrounded by savannah. Image via Dolores Ochoa/AP.

Sharper Than a "Hatchet Job," The Unknown Known Lets Rumsfeld Speak

Michelle Dean · 04/04/14 09:18AM

After a showing of the new documentary The Unknown Known at the Angelika the other day, I shuffled out behind an older couple. He was white-haired and radiating dissatisfaction. And she was saying she'd enjoyed the movie. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had not come off all that bad, she said.

Taylor Berman · 04/04/14 06:47AM

An Afghan girl helps her brother down from a security barrier in the eastern Afghan city of Khost. Anja Niedringhaus, the Associated Press photographer who took this picture, was killed by an Afghan police officer on Friday. Kathy Gannon, an AP reporter, was shot twice in the same attack and is stable condition.