Issue

The Surgeon General makes his case.

It was a story so disturbing that we all still remember it. But what if it wasn’t true?

Four million Americans came into the world that year. Here are some who have already made their mark on 2006.

Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year

Cassius Clay Gives a Thrashing to Sonny Liston

On what they still called their “home screens,” Americans got to watch the future.

The Ford Mustang changed the industry because its creator realized that “people want economy so badly, they don’t care what they pay for it.”

What we spent to get through 1964

Just as the year changed the nation, so its World Series changed American sports.

It was a disaster from the beginning.