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Byline: Charles Bethea Special Sauce The Slutty Vegan burger chain puts the party in plant-based eating. On a recent Saturday evening at the flagship branch of Slutty Vegan, an Atlanta-based [...]

Charles Bethea A dozen preschoolers arrived at the Highlander School, in East Atlanta, on a recent morning. Situated near a few gentrifying neighborhoods and a highway, the school offers what [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Infestation The Environmental Protection Agency has ten regional offices in the country, including one in Atlanta, which closed-like most government buildings-during the pandemic. The agency had planned [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Trouble Brewing TRU Colors set out to make money and fight gang violence at the same time. In April of last year, America's largest beer company, Molson [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Speed Demons Madison Cawthorn, the twenty-six-year-old Republican congressman from western North Carolina, has been racking up traffic tickets. In March, a cop pulled him over for crossing [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Members Only In the spring of 2006, Charles T. Craton III, a businessman in northwestern Georgia, best known for his work on Chick-fil-A's 'Eat Mor Chikin' campaign, [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Window Theory In 2016, Charlie Munger, the billionaire vice-chairman of Warren Buffett's holding company, announced his intention to donate two hundred million dollars to the University of [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Not Brian Severin Beckwith and Anna Brettmann, a young couple from Ithaca, New York, have been hiking from Georgia to Virginia on the Appalachian Trail since late [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Get Out Cobb County, a wealthy area northwest of Atlanta, recently advertised a new escape room on its Facebook page. 'You've been wrongfully sentenced to life without [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Between the Lines John Spiegel, a retired banking executive, and his wife, Karen, a retired college-textbook publisher, describe themselves as 'lifetime committed Republicans.' They split their time [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Taking on Greene Democrats hoping to represent Georgia's Fourteenth Congressional District face long odds, which they've occasionally lengthened. A former nudist-camp director with a suspended medical license [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Holdout Two weeks before Joe Biden's Inauguration, L. Lin Wood answered his telephone. The defamation attorney and conspiracy theorist was at home, in Atlanta, watching a human-trafficking [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Statues On a recent gray morning, John Brown Gordon sat astride his horse outside Georgia's capitol building. Gordon, a Confederate general, was Georgia's governor in the eighteen-eighties. [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Newly Eligible Aly Yamamoto, a seventeen-year-old in Georgia, won't turn eighteen until March, which has been bugging her lately. 'Two months too late to vote in the [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea November Madness Recount, audit, formality, scam: opinions varied as Georgia took another look at the five million ballots its citizens cast in the Presidential election. Joe Biden [...]

Byline: Jason Adam Katzenstein Phase II [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Proper Air tif18 Janeece Smith is an agent at Klickitat Valley Realty, in Goldendale, Washington, about three hours southeast of the six-block strip, in Seattle, that protesters [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Teen Spirit tif14tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaMcCaleb Nesseler-Cass14 On a recent Thursday, in Portland, Oregon, McCaleb Nesseler-Cass got out of bed five minutes before his ten o'clock check-in [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Shopping Trip tifIllustration by Jo?o Fazenda16tifIllustration by Jo?o Fazenda17 There was no complimentary hand sanitizer for the concerned customers of Gorge Guns, in Hood River, Oregon, on [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Touch My Hat tif30 Bryson Gray, a twenty-eight-year-old rapper who has opened for 50 Cent and 2Chainz, was sitting in front of his computer at his house, [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Pencils Down! tif23 Midway through an introductory session in the modest office of Mighty Prep tutoring, in Studio City, Los Angeles, Patrick Cunningham handed a high-school junior, [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Fashion Victims tif22 The goody bags at the National Rifle Association's Concealed Carry Fashion Show, which took place, in Texas, during New York Fashion Week, did not [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Escorts tif28 Three blocks from the Alabama governor's mansion, in Montgomery, a police officer stood outside a small brick building as the sun rose. 'It's just a [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Slow and Sparse tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda21tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaMac DeMarco21 Last fall, the singer-songwriter Mac DeMarco crouched backstage at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, in Colorado, chain-smoking Marlboro [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Rhodes Runner tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda14tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaPete Buttigieg14 In 1988, Spy magazine published a piece by Andrew Sullivan titled 'All Rhodes Lead Nowhere in Particular.' [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Roll On tif14 Recently, the Georgia congresswoman Dar'shun Kendrick drafted a 'testicular bill of rights,' which would restrict men's access to erectile-dysfunction pills, sex toys, and pornography, [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Haters tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda24tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaHoward Schultz24 Dave Mahler hosts Seattle's afternoon sports-talk-radio show 'The Dave (Softy) Mahler Show,' on KJR 950 AM. One day [...]

Byline: Charles BetheaUnderwater tif16On a recent chilly Saturday, Jon Leland, a director at Kickstarter, sat in a SoHo coffee shop writing a guided meditation for an upcoming sound festival. 'It's [...]

Byline: Charles BetheaGoing Green tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda15The first biannual Cannabis Media Summit took place a few weeks ago, hosted by Duane Morris, a law firm with a cannabis practice. [...]

NO MATTER HOW OTHERWISE WELL-ADJUSTED, serious runners have a fraught relationship with time. They scrutinize it, log it, trim it down to fractions of a second--even try to stop it [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Going Up tifIllustration by Jo�o Fazenda38 It's hard to get permission to climb skyscrapers without ropes. Recently, Alex Honnold got lucky. 'It's cooler here than I thought,' [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea The Scream tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaJim Carrey14tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaJim Carrey14 House Republicans have called for the impeachment of Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General, who is [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Relations tifIllustration by Tom Bachtell14tifIllustration by Tom BachtellAnn Kerr and Steve Kerr14 A few hours before game three of the N.B.A. finals, last week, when the Golden [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Whistle Stop tifIllustration by Tom Bachtell20tifIllustration by Tom BachtellStacey Abrams20 Last week, Stacey Abrams headed north from Atlanta, in a big white bus, to persuade rural Georgians [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Incredible tifIllustration by Tom Bachtell34 The National Rifle Association held its annual conference earlier this month, at a Dallas convention center. Thousands of people milled around hundreds [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Medicinal tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaRicky Williams20tifIllustration by Jo�o FazendaRicky Williams20 Ricky Williams, the Miami Dolphins running back, retired from the N.F.L. in 2012. 'I wanted to go [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Waste Not tifIllustration by Tom Bachtell19 Two dozen gleaners-not to be confused with foragers or dumpster divers-showed up for the second annual International Gleaners Symposium, held recently [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Sign Here tif29 Last week, in Parkland, Florida, after classes had resumed and news trucks had left, two sixteen-year-old juniors at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sat [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Hate Patrol tif20 Last week, Heidi Beirich gave a visitor a tour of the Southern Poverty Law Center's office, in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. The following day, the [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Pulling a Moore The most famous Roy Moore in history, through at least the mid-twentieth century, was likely a New Yorker named Roy E. Moore, often referred [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Beacon Twelve thousand photographers, graphic designers, creative directors, and filmmakers attended a recent conference hosted by Adobe, in Las Vegas. For many, Barack Obama's official White House [...]

Byline: Charles Bethea Spitting Image Jim Warlick was peering into a dark tractor-trailer parked in an airplane hangar in northeast Georgia. Inside was a four-thousand-pound Oval Office, broken down into [...]