States are grappling with how to care for a growing population of registered offenders in long-term care facilities.

Kamala Harris is selling the administration’s policies without trying to defend its record.

Photographs of Los Angeles’s lowriding scene

Atlantic writers look ahead at their beats.

Everybody wins: In exchange for a bit of volunteer work, the students get free housing, and retirement facilities get people who can teach the elderly how to send emails and use Skype.

It’s probably leaching chemicals into your cooking oil.

Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who accurately forecast the bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting economic contraction, has become famous for his pessimism—he has been the gloomiest of the doomsayers. Which is what makes his current outlook surprising: Roubini believes that the Obama administration’s policy makers—and especially the much-maligned Tim Geithner—have gotten a lot right. Pitfalls may still abound, but he is now projecting an end to the recession, and he sees growth ahead.