A note from the interim editor-in-chief
As we were wrapping up edits on the stories in this issue, a few things happened in the nation’s politics. An incumbent president and presumptive nominee abandoned his reelection in the face of a historic pressure campaign. His party then rallied, with unexpected speed, around his vice president, a candidate who has a chance to break barriers so significant as to be cheapened by the cliché “glass ceilings.
So, why do we persist in packaging journalism this way? I’d give two reasons. First, organizing stories around our timeline is what I’d call a productive constraint. It forces us to favor the enduring over the ephemeral—to investigate misdeeds that would otherwise remain hidden, to explore the structures that shape events, and to interrogate history.
In this September/October issue—led by a groundbreaking investigation into a sprawling alleged fraud with threads connecting to both Ken and Angela Paxton—I hope you’ll encounter that hallmark of the magazine: variety. Theleans decidedly toward stories of the deadly serious sort, but I believe you’ll also find here inspiration and even levity. Whether you crack this issue open the day it arrives or let it linger around the house for weeks or months won’t matter too much.
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