Many states require insurance to pay for seeing chiropractors. A few cover marriage counseling, and a handful reimburse for massage therapy. Increasingly, health experts rely on the political system to decide what should be reimbursable by insurers, Medicare, and Medicaid. The results haven't been promising for the expanding definition of care.

The war in Syria has devastated its economy. But some people have found ways to get rich.

The GOP is moderating on policy questions, even as it grows more dangerous on core questions of democracy and the rule of law.

In three distinct and different places, a similar sense of loss—of liberal values, of hope—is overwhelming.