CURRENT ISSUE
September 2011
Features
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What Ails the Taj Mahal?
A debate rages over preserving the awe-inspiring, 350-year-old monument that now shows signs of distress from pollution and shoddy repairs
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What 9/11 Wrought
The former editor of the New York Times considers the effects of the terrorist attacks on the 10th anniversary of the fateful day
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Road Music
Grab a partner. Bluegrass and country tunes that tell America's story are all the rage in hilly southern Virginia
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Reversal of Fortune
It wasn't until after he failed as an artist that Morse revolutionized communications by inventing the telegraph
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Picky Eaters
Could the California sea otters' peculiar dietary habits be impeding their resurgence?
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A+ for Finland
The country's achievements in education have other nations, especially the United States, doing their homework
Departments
Super Model
As photographer William Wegman tells it, his cinnamon-gray Weimaraner wasn't content to just sit and stay
On the March: September 1861
During this month, the civil war expands to Kentucky and West Virginia, and President Lincoln rejects an attempt at emancipation
Letters
Beyond Bourbon Street
From out-of-the-way jazz joints to po' boy shacks, a native son shares his favorite haunts in the Big Easy
Mail Pooch
For nine years, Owney rode the rails and the wagons on top of mailbags as the mascot of the mailmen
Sound Scholarship
Down But Not Out
Fans still argue about who really won the 1927 "long count" fight between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey
What's Up
The Struggle Within Islam
Terrorists get the headlines, but most Muslims want to reclaim their religion from extremists
Strike Up the Brand
In an ever more competitive world, nations strive for the perfect slogan