Features
The Insourcing Boom
An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of manufacturing to the United States
Mr. China Comes to America
How labor developments in China and new technology in the U.S. may reverse the decades-long relocation of American jobs to Asia
Video: James Fallows shares photos and reflections from his trip to Foxconn's controversial factory.
The Case for More Guns (And More Gun Control)
How do we reduce gun crime when Americans already own nearly 300 million firearms? Maybe by allowing more people to carry them.
Video: Jonathan Rauch tells Jeffrey Goldberg why more gay people should be armed.
The Bookstore Strikes Back
When Nashville lost its only in-town bookstores, the author, a novelist, decided to step into the breach.
Video: A tour of Ann Patchett's shop
Fiction: Reply to a Dead Man
"My heart started beating rapidly after the third time I read the letter. I could have sat there and guessed for a hundred years and never come up with what my brother had to say."
Dispatches
A Boat of Biblical Proportions
For a new theme park, Creationists (with a little help from a geneticist, some Amish men, and generous tax breaks) are building a replica of Noah’s ark—exactly as God instructed.
Kisses and Hugs in the Office
How the once-intimate sign-off is feminizing the workplace, for better or worse
Perks and Recreation
In Silicon Valley, a new wave of tech companies is trying to enforce fun.
Gallery: A tour of wacky workspaces at Twitter, Airbnb, and other Silicon Valley firms.
The Data Vigilante
Students aren’t the only ones cheating—some professors are, too. Uri Simonsohn is out to bust them.
Columns
The Demonic Genius of Daniel Tosh
The Comedy Central star brings the Colosseum to your couch.
Video: James Parker demonstrates why Tosh.0 is morally superior to America's Funniest Home Videos.
What Makes Her Click
Intel's Genevieve Bell talks about why we adopt some gadgets and spurn others—and why tech companies underestimate female users.
Interview: An extended version of this conversation
Books
The Education of Virginia Woolf
The novelist's literary essays celebrated reading for the love of it.
Books of the Year 2012
The Atlantic's literary editor picks the five best of the crop.
How the Mullahs Won
Salman Rushdie’s artistic decline
Cover to Cover
An Alice Munro collection that's "autobiographical in feeling," if not in fact; Zadie Smith's uneven new novel; and more
Star Trails 
'Very Large Green Triangles': Matmos 
The Great Transition 
