In New Jersey or Virginia, there are two gubernatorial races of various levels of excitement. In far northern New York, there is  a very contentious House race. If you live in Atlanta, New York City, Boston, or any number of other cities, you have mayoral and city council races in which to vote. And, perhaps most interestingly, in Maine, voters will decide whether or not to uphold the recent decision to allow gay marriage. So,…

How do you erect an entire museum to an idea as divisive and abstract as patriotism? A trip to Atlanta’s newest tourist attraction invites the question.

Bob Hope, Kenny Gamble, and Patti LaBelle smile from the back of a moving bus in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood. Inside star-shaped cutouts, their faces beam from a billboard advertising “the only museum of its kind in America”—the National Museum of Patriotism, now open in its new home near the Georgia…

If you’re at all worried about hyper-intelligent machines taking over the planet, soothe your apocalyptic anxieties with this video of the BumBot, a prototype police robot being proposed (with a straight face) by Atlanta mayoral candidate Rufus Terrill. It’s like the Inspector Clouseau of robot cops.

In New Jersey or Virginia, there are two gubernatorial races of various levels of excitement. In far northern New York, there is  a very contentious House race. If you live in Atlanta, New York City, Boston, or any number of other cities, you have mayoral and city council races in which to vote. And, perhaps most interestingly, in Maine, voters will decide whether or not to uphold the recent decision to allow gay marriage. So,…

If you’re at all worried about hyper-intelligent machines taking over the planet, soothe your apocalyptic anxieties with this video of the BumBot, a prototype police robot being proposed (with a straight face) by Atlanta mayoral candidate Rufus Terrill. It’s like the Inspector Clouseau of robot cops.

How do you erect an entire museum to an idea as divisive and abstract as patriotism? A trip to Atlanta’s newest tourist attraction invites the question.

Bob Hope, Kenny Gamble, and Patti LaBelle smile from the back of a moving bus in Atlanta’s Midtown neighborhood. Inside star-shaped cutouts, their faces beam from a billboard advertising “the only museum of its kind in America”—the National Museum of Patriotism, now open in its new home near the Georgia…