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COMMENT Containing Iran Cold War strategies might help us handle Tehran’s nuclear ambitions
by Jonathan Rauch
PHOTO OP Emigration Reform
by Hector Mata
WASHINGTON Purple Mountains Could the interior West—long seen as an archetypal red region—be turning blue? The fate of the Republican Party may hinge on the answer
by Ryan Sager
THE LIST Leaps of Faith When pop stars get religion
by Ross Douthat
BRIEF LIVES Ford’s Theater Can Harold Ford become the first black senator from the old Confederacy since Reconstruction?
by Michael Crowley
FIRST PRINCIPLES A Confederacy Of Eunuchs What a lousy time for the leaders of the world’s economic powerhouses to be gripped by political weakness
by Clive Crook
THE LAW Of Clerks and Perks Why Supreme Court justices have more free time than ever—and why it should be taken away
by Stuart Taylor Jr. and Benjamin Wittes
POLL War in Iraq
Primary Sources Pakistan’s out-of-control army; the sorry (but egalitarian) state of American health care; the happiness census
The Monster of Florence
A true crime story
by Douglas Preston
INTERVIEWS The Journalist and the MurdererThe Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Douglas Preston discusses his investigation of the "Monster of Florence"—and the strange plot twist that made him a suspect in the case
by Justine Isola [Web only]
How a video-store clerk and small-time crook reinvented himself as America’s nemesis in Iraq
by Mary Anne Weaver
Jihad 2.0
With the loss of training camps in Afghanistan, terrorists have turned to the Internet to find and train recruits. The story of one pioneer of this effort—the enigmatic “Irhabi 007”—shows how
by Nadya Labi
INTERVIEWS Web of TerrorExtreme Parenting
Nadya Labi discusses the murky world of online jihad
by Abigail Cutler [Web only]
Does the Baby Genius Edutainment Complex enrich your child’s mind—or stifle it?
by Alissa Quart
150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC Idealism & Practicality
This is the sixth in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine’s 150th anniversary. This installment is introduced by James Fallows, a national correspondent for The Atlantic
Arabic
by Alexander Nemser
Frequently Asked Questions
Humor
by Evan Eisenberg
EDITOR'S CHOICE Chairs, Rag Mags, Indian Wars
Phaidon Design Classics; A Dash of Daring, by Penelope Rowlands; Yellowstone Command, by Jerome A. Greene
by Benjamin Schwarz
Cheap Thrills
A story of American women in financial jeopardy
by Sandra Tsing Loh
New Fiction
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
by Elizabeth Judd
Summer Reading
What some notables are stacking on their beach blankets this year
The Persian Version
Under the caked muck of theocracy in today’s Iran, ancient and lovely literary springs still bubble
by Christopher Hitchens
NEW FICTION A Close Read
Stoner, by John Williams
by Christina Schwarz
Cover to Cover
A guide to additional releases
by Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwarz
TRAVELS Greetings from Airworld!
Six days in five airports—a survivor’s guide
by Wayne Curtis
FOOD Deliverance
The future of shopping for fresh fruits and vegetables
by Corby Kummer
TECHNOLOGY The Electric Mind Meld
Two new elegantly conceived programs help you unjam your digital life
by James Fallows
COMMERCE AND CULTURE The Next Starbucks?
How massage went from the strip club to the strip mall
by Virginia Postrel
SPORTS Spin Doctors
Racket technology saved tennis, and Roger Federer is proof
by Tom Perrotta
POST MORTEM The Swedes’ Swingingest Swinger
Vilgot Sjöman (1924–2006)
by Mark Steyn
THE PUZZLER Dinner With the CryppsWord Fugitives
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon [Web only]
by Barbara Wallraff