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Supremacy by Stealth Does America bear the sole responsibility for preserving world order? Is it ethical to do so through covert means? Join a discussion of Robert D. Kaplan's cover story in the July/August Atlantic. Headlines Over the Horizon What developments around the world do you think have the most potential to grow into significant international-security threats? The Texas Clemency Memos Were those executed on death row during Bush's tenure as governor denied a fair hearing? Weigh in on Alan Berlow's article in the July/August Atlantic. Thinking Like an Apparatchik Weigh in on Christopher Hitchens's controversial review of Sidney Blumenthal's new book. See the complete forum index. |
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77 North Washington StreetLetters to the Editor  The Transformer Is Tony Blair what Bill Clinton should have been? by David Brooks Coming to America With its diverse and dispersed immigrants, our nation's capital is a model of the post-racial society we've been awaiting by Jonathan Rauch A New Deal for Teachers Here's how to fix our desperate urban schools: pay teachers more—much more—but tie compensation to performance and allow districts to fire bad teachers quickly by Matthew Miller Primary Sources Selections from recent reports, studies, and other documents. This month: evangelicals and prostitutes; 3.3 million "excess deaths" in Africa; the Subcommittee on Total Force The World in Numbers Waterworld by Jen Joynt and Marshall Poe The Bear Slayer During his quarter century of dictatorial rule Nicolae Ceausescu treated the brown bears of Romania almost as badly as he treated the people. Only his gamekeepers saw the grisly reality by David Quammen Supremacy by Stealth It's a cliché these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire. It is time to move beyond a statement of the obvious. How should we operate on a tactical level to preserve our imperium? What are the rules and what are the tools? by Robert D. Kaplan An Interview With Robert D. Kaplan: The Hard Edge of American ValuesHeadlines Over the Horizon Analysts at the RAND Corporation lay out ten international-security developments that aren't getting the attention they deserve The Texas Clemency Memos As the legal counsel to Texas Governor George W. Bush, Alberto R. Gonzales—widely regarded as a likely future Supreme Court nominee—prepared fifty-seven confidential death-penalty memoranda for Bush's review. They suggest that Gonzales repeatedly failed to apprise Bush of some of the most salient issues in the cases at hand by Alan Berlow Execution SummariesIn Praise of Nepotism Americans censure nepotism on the one hand and practice it as much as they can on the other. There's much to be said for "good" nepotism, the author argues—which is fortunate, because we're living in a nepotistic Golden Age by Adam Bellow "The Democratic Party Suicide Bill" Democrats knew that campaign-finance reform would cripple their fundraising ability—but they backed the idea anyway, largely on principle. The fate of McCain-Feingold ultimately rests with the Supreme Court. But principle has already cost the Democrats plenty by Seth Gitell Bloodlines An anthology of poems The Norwegian Grandson A poem by Robert Bly [audio]Love Me A short story by Garrison Keillor Literary Lives Bertolt Brecht A drawing by Edward Sorel  New & Noteworthy What to read this month reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz Thinking Like an Apparatchik "When speaking later of their experiences," our author writes of former Clinton associates, among them Sidney Blumenthal, who has recently published a political memoir, "several of them called to mind ex-members of a cult, its inner dynamic the assuaging of various exorbitant appetites on the part of the leader. It all makes sense as long as you stay inside the encampment, and it all has a hallucinatory quality in retrospect" reviewed by Christopher Hitchens Other Reviews What Was She Thinking?, by Zoë Heller, reviewed by James Marcus; All Shook Up, by Glenn C. Altschuler, reviewed by Eric Alterman; The Photograph, by Penelope Lively, reviewed by Elizabeth Judd; The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger, reviewed by Caitlin Flanagan Zoë Heller: Learning in PublicThe Poetry of Heartbreak The new collection of Robert Lowell's poems will doubtless stand from now on as The Work reviewed by Peter Davison The Difficult Grandeur of Robert Lowell  INNOCENT BYSTANDER: Manual Labors The can-do spirit and the culture of handbooks by Cullen Murphy TRAVELS: The Colfax Riot The author, pursuing genealogical research, stumbles on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana by Richard Rubin The Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff
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