In The Latest Issue

The Truth About Home Cooking
Bestselling food writer Mark Bittman makes the case that eating at home is good for your health, good for your family—and, with the right approach, far easier than you think

Mark Bittman’s Whole Roast Chicken

Mark Bittman’s Vegetable Soup

Mark Bittman’s Skillet Pear Crisp

The Future of Food: Experts Predict How Our Plates Will Change
Foodies and futurists on vertical gardens, low-carbon fridge stocks and more solutions

A Troubled American Moment
As conspiracy theories abound, voters are uncertain about what to believe

Banking by Another Name
Traditional lenders aren’t doing their job. Enter a raft of startups to do it for them

Ebola Panic Goes Viral
America is in panic mode over Ebola and Enterovirus D-86. That’s human nature —but it’s hard to battle an epidemic from a crouch. Here’s how managing fear can give us an edge over disease

The Paperless Classroom is Coming
A national push to get a computer into each student’s hands will upend the way American children are taught

A New Generation Speaks in Hong Kong
The city’s protests may be waning—but the battle for democracy will continue

The Culture

Pop Chart

Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr.’s New Father-Son Act
The Judge casts the leading actors in a family affair

Bill Murray’s Bad Saint
The actor gets a heart transplant in the hokey St. Vincent

Review: Stars’ No One Is Lost
The high-risk, high-reward Canadian group releases its seventh album

Gina Rodriguez’s Happy Accident
The actress may be the biggest miracle in Jane the Virgin

Kerry Howley’s Fighting Words
One writer’s journey through the world of mixed martial arts

Meet the Computer Age’s Original Minds
Walter Isaacson’s new book celebrates unlikely pioneers

Brain Builder
Creating the world’s smartest artificial mind

The App Fueling Hong Kong’s Protest
FireChat lets users communicate even when they can’t get online or send text messages

Why We Just Might Avoid a Climate Catastrophe
Do worry. But here are the reasons to be happy

On Becoming a Better Feminist
Like many celebrities, I support #HeForShe. I just needed some help getting my message out

10 Questions with Jennifer Garner
The actor talks about what she does on the Internet, sex ed and beating Ben Affleck at the box office

Conversation

Briefing

World

Milestones

Marian Seldes
Star of stage and screen

Nobel Prize
Discoverers of “brain’s GPS”

Little Peace in Sight for Ferguson

In Nobody’s Playbook
Three high school football players die within a week

Who Is Khorasan?
Simple: al-Qaeda

Age-Proof Your Muscles
New research pinpoints the ideal moves to protect the male body as it ages

A Tale Of Two Viruses
Ebola and enterovirus D68 have Americans on edge. Here’s how the government is trying to contain them

The Contest Behind the Election
A flurry of changes to ballot laws opens old wounds