Soul Searching is our series about how the most secular generation in history is changing the face of religion.

You might not know this, since it doesn’t appear anywhere on the medication itself, but the morning-after pill doesn’t necessarily work for women over 176 pounds.

A few years ago, William Bratton, former commissioner of the NYPD and the man responsible for exporting “broken windows” and stop-and-frisk across the country, went to a play that he enjoyed immensely. In the production, two teenagers named Emmett Till and Anne Frank have a sincere conversation about the…

Pastor Harry Reeder is a busy man, and one who has managed to combine his two passions—the word of God and the Civil War—into a single, continuous practice through sheer force of will.

In 2012, the 81-year-old nun Megan Rice—along with co-conspirators Gregory Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli—put every anti-war protester in America to shame when she snuck undetected into the Y-12 National Security Complex, threw blood on the walls, and hung Biblically significant banners from the secretive maximum…

Almost a decade ago, as it struggled to fulfill the Bush administration’s then-unprecedented hiring mandate, Customs and Border Protection spent a reported $1 million to plaster its agency’s green-and-white logo on the hood of a NASCAR race car. 

As gun enthusiasts, people who sell guns, and the President of the United States all travel to Atlanta for this year’s annual National Rifle Association convention, the organization that quite literally rewrote the Second Amendment, is promoting a new initiative: NRA Carry Guard, a three-tiered service package that…

Trump’s first 100 days have been messy—and not just for the president, though a federal judge recently struck down yet another controversial executive order. For those of us opposed to the policies and agendas furthered by this administration, it’s been a long few months as shock turned to grief which turned, in many…

There is a particular kind of make-believe woman who floods my inbox every time I post to Craigslist’s 18-plus section, which I’ve been doing more often recently in my search for the actual women who use the site.

When I ask Carrie Lightfoot to describe the most utopian and expansive version of the America she’s working towards, this is what she says: Obviously there’d be less crime, because criminals are lazy, and if all women had guns they would no longer be considered prey.

On Tuesday, the Alabama Senate, in an an overwhelming majority, voted in favor of a bill that would allow a Birmingham Presbyterian megachurch to form its own police department. As “police experts” told the Associated Press, such a force would be unprecedented in the United States.

Welcome to Rank and File, a series that tells the stories of young veterans and the changing face of the military. Read our introduction here.