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CalendarLetters to the Editor
COMMENT Demolition Men Ariel Sharon and Junichiro Koizumi point the way to a centrist resurgence in American politics
by Jonathan Rauch
PHOTO OP Flu Shot photograph by Daniele La Monaca
CROSS-EXAMINATION Justice Delayed Why we still don’t have a way to put terrorists on trial
by Benjamin Wittes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Dangerous Games The most heated competition in the 2008 Olympics could take place not in a stadium but in the Taiwan Strait
by Jennifer Lind
WASHINGTON Schools for Scandal Republicans might—or might not—want to look backward for lessons on handling life under a cloud
by Joshua Green
THE STATES The Six-Year Itch
by Chuck Todd and Marc Ambinder
FIRST PRINCIPLES Capitalism: The Movie Why Americans don’t value markets enough—and why that matters
by Clive Crook
Primary Sources Keeping tabs on the war on terror; bigger, brainier downtowns; synonyms make you stupid
How Do I Love Thee?
A growing number of Internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment
by Lori Gottlieb
INTERVIEWS Logging On For LoveThe Checkpoint
The author of this month's cover story talks about love and the new research that's being produced by Internet matchmaking services
by Elizabeth Wasserman [Web only]
For Israeli soldiers checkpoint life is dull, alienating, and stress-inducing. For the Palestinians it is frustrating, humiliating, and anger-provoking. Yet it’s the human face of the occupation—and as close as some Israelis and Palestinians will ever come
by Ted Conover
The Preacher
Bishop T. D. Jakes wants his flock not only to do good but to do well, and his brand of entrepreneurial spirituality has made him perhaps the most influential black leader in America today
by Sridhar Pappu
The Right Way
Seven steps toward a last chance in Iraq
by Kenneth M. Pollack
SPECIAL REPORT A Switch in Time: a New Strategy for Iraq150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC Civil Rights & Black Identity
By Kenneth M. Pollack and the Iraq Policy Working Group of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution [Web only]
Articles by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr., with an introduction by Randall Kennedy.
Not Conspicuously Intelligent Design
A cartoon by Bruce McCall
by Bruce McCall
POETRY Pyracantha and Plum
by Jane Hirshfield
EDITOR’S CHOICE Another 5001 Nights at the Movies
American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, edited by Phillip Lopate
by Benjamin Schwarz
Home Alone
The dark heart of shelter-lit addiction
by Terry Castle
READING LIST Mommies Dearest, Part 2
More top literary reasons why it sucks to have chic parents
by Sally Singer
New Fiction
Becoming Strangers, by Louise Dean
by Christina Schwarz
ESSAYS A Close Read
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit
by Christina Schwarz
INTERVIEWS Terra IncognitaWhat’s Left?
Essayist Rebecca Solnit, the author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost, discusses the art of falling off the map
by Jennie Rothenberg [Web only]
A new book by the West’s most influential Marxist shows him to be both “the most profound essayist wielding a pen” and on the wrong side of history
by Christopher Hitchens
BEST SELLERS ABROAD Germany
by R. Jay Magill Jr.
FOOD Open for Business
A post-Katrina visit to the restaurants of New Orleans, where eating out has become essential group therapy
by Corby Kummer
TECHNOLOGY Spy’s-eye View
Google Earth and its rival programs offer (civilians) a new way to look at the world
by James Fallows
TRAVELS Going Coastal
Away from the heat and bustle of Morocco’s historic cities lie some of the friendliest and most tranquil places in North Africa
by Jeffrey Tayler
Answers to the January/February Puzzler
THE PUZZLER TwofersWord Fugitives
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon [Web only]
by Barbara Wallraff
POST MORTEM Mister Available
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005)
by Mark Steyn
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
by Benjamin Healy