COVER

COMMENTARY

FEATURES

The New Dating Game (Society)

Smartphone apps have turned courtship into an addictive pastime. Can love really be just a swipe away?

LETTERS

THE CULTURE

My Favorite Martians (The Awesome Column)

Lunch with a group of surprisingly social people whose goal in life is to move to Mars

BRIEFING

Rail Boom (Nation)

Regulators scramble to rewrite rules as the nation's railways teem with crude oil

Jersey Turncoat (Nation)

Chris Christie fires a warning shot at a former ally