Dysfunctional public spaces inhibit pride and make a community feel abandoned. Great ones can become the heart and soul of a place.

This week's two episodes served as triumphant exclamation points at the end of a strong season

Speaking from long devotion to Alaska and with high aspirations for its future, Ernest Gruening, Alaska’s governor from 1939 to 1953 and its senator since it became a state, argues in favor of the proposed Rampart Canyon Dam, which Paul Brooks attacked in his article “The Plot to Drown Alaska” in the May ATLANTIC.