France today has more Muslims than practicing Catholics, and couscous has arguably become the country's national food

JOSEPH WHITEHILL of Topeka, Kansas, who makes his first appearance in the Atlantic aw/ it’i/Z certainly be heard from again, is a seafarer who has gone inland to do his writing. “Noting in the Writer‘s Yearbook,” he wrote in his accompanying letter, “that the Atlantic ʽFirst‘ section is reserved for unestablished writers, I beg to call your attention to the fact that I am about as unestablished as you can get and still be eating.”

» Next to winning the war, there is no subject so fraught with national consequence as the Department of Justice’s investigation of the patent pools. The process of invention is the mainspring of our business activity. How shall it be regulated in the post-war world?

After a century of evolution, shopping malls are now urban centers, with post offices, hotels, counseling centers, and even amusement parks—all in a weather-protected, safe, clean place. Now signs of real life are starting to appear

Disinterested research casts doubt on claims that lead poisoning from paint is widespread among American children. Ironically, lead-paint removal can be a cause of poisoning

The misery and privation of the mountain towns of Appalachia became a campaign issue in 1960, when JFK passed through West Virginia. After a spurt of direct federal aid for the region, the nation’s attention faded. The energy crisis has swung the spotlight back to Appalachia, where coal lies both shallow and deep, where the fight about whether to stripmine or deep-mine rages, and where the people who live and work the land feel a fierce need to control their own destinies.