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Lessons of Abu Ghraib One shocking thing about the photographs is that for some people they weren't shocking
by Mark Bowden
SECURITY Plan of Attack The United States is not just facing an insurgency in Iraq—it's facing "netwar," the newest kind
by Bruce Hoffman
BRIEF LIVES The Pragmatist The UN's Lakhdar Brahimi understands that neither peace nor justice may be possible in Iraq
by Laura Secor
THE LIST Olympic Elite The world's most athletic nations
by Nathan Littlefield
AT LARGE I Agree With Me When was the last time a conservative talk show changed a mind?
by P. J. O'Rourke
THE ODDS Saddam’s Fate Since his capture, last December, Saddam Hussein has been held by the U.S. military. He is no doubt wondering about his eventual fate, and so are others.
by Marshall Poe
All the President’s Memoirists A picture of life inside the Bush White House, as captured by former members of the Administration in recent books
POST MORTEM Sell the Holbein, Keep the House The Duke of Devonshire (1920-2004)
by Mark Steyn
Primary Sources A report card on Iraq; why gambling is good for business; the Muslim passion for Mel Gibson; winners and losers in the modern marriage pool
THE NATION IN NUMBERS Resegregation’s Aftermath
by Brad Holst
When George Meets John
A viewer's guide to this fall's version of "asymmetric warfare"— the presidential debates.
by James Fallows
Dumb and Dumber
Why are campaign commercials so bad?
by Joshua Green
Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench
Al Sharpton's goal has never been the presidency; he wants to become the leader of Black America. Problem is, that job no longer exists.
by Mark Bowden
Kerry Faces the World
What would a John Kerry foreign policy look like? In some ways a lot like one the current President's father could endorse
by Joshua Micah Marshall
Five Days in Fallujah
Our correspondent accompanied the first unit of Marines to assault Fallujah after the murder and mutilation last April of four American civilians.
by Robert D. Kaplan
INTERVIEWS In the Line of FireEnemy Americans
Journalist Robert D. Kaplan joined U.S. Marines as they stormed Fallujah, and returned to share his impressions
by Sage Stossel [Web only]
Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi are American citizens. The Bush Administration has claimed the right to imprison them indefinitely without charge or trial, on the grounds that they are "enemy combatants" in the war on terror. Does a new kind of war require new kinds of laws?
by Benjamin Wittes
Aweigh
A master and commander decides, after a lifetime on the water, that he will no longer go down to the sea
by William F. Buckley Jr.
POETRY Gift
by Brooks Haxton
How to Pick the Winner ...
by Seymour Chwast
POETRY Denial
[with audio]
by Leonard Nathan
New & Noteworthy
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom, by Rhys Isaac; Hatchet Jobs, by Dale Peck; The North American Prairie, by Stephen R. Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman; The Crow Indians, by Robert H. Lowie; War Under Heaven, by Gregory Evans Dowd; Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?, by David Fromkin; The First World War, by Hew Strachan; Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy, by David Stevenson; The Killing Ground, by Tim Travers
by Benjamin Schwarz
The Kids Are All Right
Teens aren't as warped as some of the books about them
by Tom Carson
The Old Man
Even for educated readers, Leon Trotsky survives as part kitsch and part caricature. But the reissue of a majestic biography reveals him as he always was—a prophetic moralist
by Christopher Hitchens
Odd Couple
Susan Sontag and Pauline Kael: a curious combination
by David Thomson
NEW FICTION Laff Tracks
Four Souls, by Louise Erdrich.
by Jon Zobenica
The Terrors
One of the foremost scholars of Soviet history assesses an ambitious new biography of Stalin
by Robert Conquest
INNOCENT BYSTANDER Wonders Never Cease
Updating Philon of Byzantium's famous list
by Cullen Murphy
PERSONAL FILE Organize Your Life!
The modern condition is to be overwhelmed by everything. Now comes David Allen, who can teach even you how to stop stewing and start doing
by James Fallows
MUSIC One Swell Party
Cole Porter's real secret was not the gay life a new film biography will highlight. It was how he made his songs
by David Schiff
FICTION The One in White
"Captain," I say, "you've got about two hundred Mexican soldiers waiting for you in the plaza."
by Robert Olen Butler
INTERVIEWS Faraway VoicesTHE PUZZLER Room With a View
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler talks about tapping into different points of view and writing "from the place where you dream."
by Jessica Murphy [Web only]
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Fugitives
by Barbara Wallraff
Proper-Name Index
by Benjamin Healy