Report Beyond Dead Pool A trip down the Colorado A hideous accounting trick is destroying America’s rivers Lake Powell is the American Pompei, preserved under oozing tonnages of mud Cash-register dams prop up a forsaken nineteenth-century fantasy By Wade Graham
Dispatch Wisconsin Supper Clubs Childhood memories may be haunted but the relish tray abides Pickled mushrooms and asparagus don’t mix well with alcohol; neither does ice cream The first rule of Supper Club is that they don’t take reservations; the last rule is that no one eats alone By Meaghan Garvey
Report The Greatest Show on Earth A Trump rally in Montana brings out the walking wounded and the Second Coming of William Jennings Bryan The lean, mean Chicago machine wants to own the inside of your skull An obsession with politics is a form of mental colonization by people who truly aren’t your friends; it’s un-American, and uncool. By David Samuels