COVER

WORLD

Turkey's Triumphs

After a historic cease-fire by Kurdish rebels and a U.S.-brokered Israeli apology, Turkey reasserts itself as a regional power player

PHOTO ESSAY

In the Beginnings

Photographer Sebastião Salgado went to the ends of the world to find the memory banks of Earth's early, unspoiled glories

10 QUESTIONS

UNITED STATES

How Gay Marriage Won

The gay and lesbian community has gone from Stonewall to the altar in two generations

COMMENTARY

ESSAY

Bracket Bluster (The Awesome Column)

Jocks may be playing in the NCAA tournament, but nerds are the ones profiting from it

LETTERS

Women in the Workforce (Inbox)

Leaning on the Job; Revolutionary Road; Train of Thought; Institutional Dysfunction