Eric Shear

We all have a slightly distorted idea about who we are and how other people see us.

Beloved American Chef Julia Child learned to cook in France, where butter is indispensable. When she taught her recipes to American audiences in the 1960s, she had a favorite mantra: “With enough butter, anything is good.”

“I have a searing memory of a day in my childhood.” William Leuchtenburg was a boy living with his family in New Jersey during Prohibition. His father, a postal worker, commuted into Manhattan to work at a post office near Penn Station. But Mr. Leuchtenburg’s salary was modest, so he supplemented the family income by running a small still in the basement of the family home and selling his liquor locally.

On days when Mark Shirley serves lunch at his food truck, Ole Time Smokehouse, he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. By the time most people in Farmville, North Carolina, are just getting out of bed, Mark’s barbeque has already been cooking for hours.

Ask your average environmental activist about their impression of commercial sea fishing and you’re likely to hear about turtles caught in plastic soda can rings or dolphins trapped in drift nets.

At Goodwood Brewing, the food is comforting, the beers come in flights, and the atmosphere immediately makes you feel like a regular. “I’m in the hospitality industry,” says Ted Mitzlaff, CEO of Goodwood Brewing & Spirits. “There’s nothing I love more than providing food, safety, and fun for my patrons.” The growing company has three locations in Kentucky and is adding a fourth. Their Louisville taproom hosts live music every weekend, including a Saturday afternoon “Bluegrass Jam,” where anyone is invited to bring an instrument, pull up a seat, and join in. Wednesdays are board game and bingo nights. Kids are welcome in the taproom. Sometimes Goodwood even hosts yoga classes, where they serve “beermosas.” “This place has personality and funk.” - Vyvian, Yelp review, Louisville Goodwood started with beer. “We were kind of at the forefront of the craft beer movement,” Ted explains.

Andy Cilek woke up on November 2, 2010, got dressed, and headed to the polls to cast his vote. He’d gotten dressed thousands of times in his life. He never imagined that his T-shirt would take him all the way to the Supreme Court.

But the Environmental Protection Agency says your small plot of land contains wetlands. Even though it’s in a subdivision surrounded by other houses, the EPA says you can’t continue construction—and they’re threatening to fine you tens of thousands of dollars a day.

In 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared Edward Poitevent’s Louisiana land—which had been in his family since the end of the Civil War—a critical habitat of the dusky gopher frog, a species that hadn’t been seen in Louisiana for 50 years.

America is suffering through a crisis for which there is no easy fix. The president is frustrated: The Supreme Court keeps knocking down his initiatives, dismissing them as unconstitutional expansions of federal power.

When the Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s OSHA vaccine mandate in January, Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor joined together in a firmly worded dissent. At issue, they said, was a “single, simple question”

Born in 1739 to an Irish immigrant doctor and a blue blood South Carolinian mother, Rutledge was strong-willed and proud.