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COMMENT The New Nixon It'll be George W. Bush, if he doesn't change his economic policies soon
by Jonathan Rauch
PHOTO OP Peripheral Vision
photographs by Christopher Morris
FOREIGN AFFAIRS The Wrong Lesson Our counterinsurgency efforts abroad are starting to resemble the British Empire's. This could mean gains now—and trouble later
by Caroline Elkins
INTERVIEWS The Secret History Caroline Elkins, the author of Imperial Reckoning, talks about unearthing the sinister underside of Britain's "civilizing" mission in KenyaTHE LIST Local Realities
by Sage Stossel [Web only]
by Marshall Poe and Abigail Cutler
POLL Hillary in 2008? Political insiders weigh in on the presidential prospects of Hillary Clinton.
by James A. Barnes and Peter Bell
BRIEF LIVES The Show-Me Sheikh The grand mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, is peddling a new kind of radical Islam—traditionalism without the extremism
by G. Willow Wilson
PHENOMENON Marathon Men
by Chris Cillizza
HYPOTHETICALS A Roll of the Dice The future of Iraq. A board game
by Spencer Ackerman
Primary Sources A liberal's case for the death penalty; can Iraq stop worrying about Iran?; bottomless appetites; congressional cheats
Compiled by Marshall Poe and Ross Douthat
THE NATION IN NUMBERS Pffffttt The U.S. real-estate bubble is likely to leak, not pop
by Don Peck
Countdown to a Meltdown
America's coming economic crisis. A look back from the election of 2016
by James Fallows
Meltdown: A Case Study
What America a century ago can teach us about the moral consequences of economic decline
by Benjamin M. Friedman
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three)
Death row and a brothel in Las Vegas; a pilot's lecture on creationism; genealogy and the Mormons; higher learning in Austin; a gun show in Fort Worth; and the rain-struck opening of the Clinton Library
by Bernard-Henri Lévy
North Korea: The War Game
Some of this country's most prominent foreign-policy strategists recently conducted a Pentagon-style war game. Dealing with North Korea could make Iraq look like child's play
by Scott Stossel
Wolfowitz: The Exit Interviews
As he prepared to leave office, the deputy secretary of defense engaged in a series of conversations with the author on Iraq, democracy, intelligence, 9/11, and how he believes America must make its way in the world
by Mark Bowden
POETRY Birthday
[with audio]
by Henri Cole
EDITOR'S CHOICE Elements of Style
Sinatra, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan; Chanel, edited by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton; Edmund Wilson, by Lewis M. Dabney; The Lights That Failed, by Zara Steiner
by Benjamin Schwarz
Calamity Jane
The incoherent life (so far) of Jane Fonda
by Tom Carson
Fidelity With a Wandering Eye
Love is noble, love is hard, and women cheat just as readily as men
by Cristina Nehring
READING LIST The Lady Is a Tramp
Five books about endlessly inspiring, morally vacuous women
by Sally Singer
New Fiction
The Wonder Spot, by Melissa Bank
by Elizabeth Judd
A Breath of Dust
"I wasn't even bothering whether I understood what I was saying," T. S. Eliot said of The Waste Land. A new guide to the poem inadvertently suggests we should take him at his word
by Christopher Hitchens
A Close Read
Fascination, by William Boyd
by Christina Schwarz
BEST SELLERS ABROAD Japan
by Makiko Kitamura
You Might as Well Live
Nick Hornby's characters could care less
by Jon Zobenica
SPORT Masters of the Hunt
So the British have banned the killing of foxes and other wild mammals with the aid of dogs. Now what? A report from the sponge-wet moors of Barmy Britannia
by P. J. O'Rourke
THE PUZZLER Code Pairs
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Fugitives
by Barbara Wallraff
POST MORTEM A Gentleman, of a Kind
Prince Rainier of Monaco (1923-2005)
by Mark Steyn
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy