Best of America

• Editor’s Note: Father Time

  

  I lost my dad last year.

  Sure, lots of memorable stuff happened to me in 2011. My daughters started first grade. I read and will never forget Unbroken.…

• The 20 Best Reads of 2011

  

  From magazines, newspapers and the Internet, the most unforgettable articles that crossed our editors’ desks (or screens) all year.

• The Year’s Most Miraculous Happy Endings

  

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• Christopher Hitchens on Freedom of Speech

  

  In 1941, with war looming and our liberties imperiled, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reminded the nation not to lose sight of the ideals that make us strong —…

• We Hear You America: How the 2011 Campaign Made Winning Towns Better

  Find out how lucky winners of Reader’s Digest We Hear You America prize grants used their funds to make their communities better.

• Taken by the Wind—and Back to Earth

  

  Thunder was drumming in the distance when Reginald Eppes woke up at five in the morning on April 27. He checked the weather forecast on his phone. A…

• Budget Crises Make Mayors Feel Like “Bad Guys”

  [America's mayors are facing tough fiscal times. Reader’s Digest‘s We Hear You America program is offering money and promotional support to help enrich the quality of life in…

• We Hear You America: Mayors of the Week

  

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• The Boy Who Defied Death

  

  Doug Knutzen got the call at his auto shop: Emergency at the beach. Twelve-year-old Dale Ostrander of Spanaway, Washington, had been playing in the surf with his church…

• Baby Evan: A Miracle of Science

  

  Evan Stauff was only three months old when his mom, Kathleen, woke to find him tense and rigid one April morning in their North Bend, Oregon home. “Dave,…
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