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COMMENT Some Convenient Truths Runaway global warming looks all but unstoppable. Maybe that’s because we haven’t really tried to stop it
by Gregg Easterbrook
PHOTO OP Go West, Young Han
photograph by Joe Chan
FIRST PRINCIPLES The Height of Inequality America’s productivity gains have gone to giant salaries for just a few
by Clive Crook
BRIEF LIVES The Reverend Rudolph Giuliani learns to speak “evangelese”—and tests the waters for a presidential bid
by Hanna Rosin
THE ODDS GOP R.I.P.?
by Chuck Todd
WASHINGTON Catastrophe Management Michael Chertoff tells Atlantic contributor Stuart Taylor Jr. what it’s like to run the Department of Homeland Security. An edited transcript. (For the full transcript, click here)
by Stuart Taylor Jr.
POLL Nuclear Iran The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about Iran’s nuclear quest. Special extended Web version
Primary Sources Muslim public opinion the world over; the disappearing middle-class neighborhood; the specter of the sexual “superpeer”
Declaring Victory
The United States is succeeding in its struggle against terrorism. The time has come to declare the war on terror over, so that an even more effective military and diplomatic campaign can begin.
by James Fallows
FOLLOW-UP Can We Still Declare Victory?
Yes. James Fallows explains why the foiled airline bombing plot actually strengthens the argument for declaring victory in the war on terror
by James Fallows [Web only]
INTERVIEWS Endgaming the Terror WarAll the Presidents’ Doodles
James Fallows talks about the surprising strides we've made against al-Qaeda—and why declaring victory will make us safer
by Abigail Cutler [Web only]
A history in sketches
INTERVIEWS Doodlers-in-ChiefHunting the Taliban in Las Vegas
Sina Najafi talks about his quirky publication, Cabinet Magazine, and its forthcoming book of doodles by U.S. presidents
by Shaun Raviv [Web only]
In trailers just minutes away from the slot machines, Air Force pilots control Predators over Iraq and Afghanistan. A case study in the marvels—and limits—of modern military technology
by Robert D. Kaplan
The Hive
Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge
by Marshall Poe
INTERVIEWS Common KnowledgeInside the Billionaire Service Industry
Marshall Poe on the marvels and pitfalls of Wikipedia, the fastest-growing encyclopedia in human history.
by Jennie Rothenberg [Web only]
Need designer lighting for your jet? Fancy a dressage horse for your daughter? Have staffing issues in your 50,000-square-foot house? A growing army of experts stands ready to bear any burden for the ultrarich
by Sheelah Kolhatkar
150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC Technology & Innovation
This is the eighth in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine's 150th anniversary. This installment is introduced by James Fallows, a national correspondent of The Atlantic.
POETRY Little Hat
by Suzanne Cleary
POETRY Everyone Was In Love
by Galway Kinnell
EDITOR’S CHOICE Orson Agonistes
Orson Welles: Hello Americans, by Simon Callow; Framing the Early Middle Ages, by Chris Wickham
by Benjamin Schwarz
Feckless Youth
What Kennedy magic?
by Christopher Hitchens
READING LIST Establishing Shots
The picture books that style makers use
by Sally Singer
Zip It
Erica Jong’s stunning self-absorption
by Cristina Nehring
New Fiction
The Emperor's Children, by Claire Messud
by Elizabeth Judd
ROUNDUP Dark Passage
A selective investigation of recent mysteries and thrillers
by Jon Zobenica
Cover to Cover
A guide to additional releases
by Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwarz
TRAVELS The Road from Ravenna
In the footsteps of the last Roman emperor
by Cullen Murphy
FOOD Wine Therapy
What makes the wines of San Patrignano so distinctive? It’s not just the grapes
by Corby Kummer
COMMERCE AND CULTURE Signs of Our Times
In under a century, neon signs—part sculpture, part lighting, part billboard—have gone from marketing tool to tacky trash to folk art
by Virginia Postrel
TECHNOLOGY File Not Found
Why a stone tablet is still better than a hard drive
by James Fallows
POST MORTEM The Maestro of Jiggle TV
Aaron Spelling (1923–2006)
by Mark Steyn
THE PUZZLER Hex SignWord Court
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon [Web only]
by Barbara Wallraff