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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT A Matter of Degrees Why college is not an economic cure-all by Clive Crook BRIEF LIVES Ears Wide Shut For more than a year, Karen Hughes has been trying to sell George Bush’s America to the Middle East. Here’s why it isn’t working by Ilana Ozernoy WASHINGTON Do Polls Still Work? The last two elections have left pollsters somewhat bloodied but unbowed by Joshua Green PHOTO OP Fertile Ground photograph by Ahmad Masood POLL America and Israel The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about current and future U.S. support for Israel THE WORLD IN NUMBERS Carriers of Conflict For a preview of future instability and war in the Middle East, watch where Iraqi refugees are going by Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack Primary Sources The road back from Katrina; Nigeria’s restive delta; the long arm of the blue law; tripping your way to sobriety  Take Two: Hillary's Choice How Hillary Clinton turned herself into the consummate Washington player by Joshua Green INTERVIEWS Candidate HillarySex, Lies, and Videogames What if a computer program combined the action and graphics of a video game with the emotional power of great art? The result could revolutionize interactive entertainment—and even change the meaning of “play” by Jonathan Rauch Beyond Space InvadersTwilight of the Assassins It was the first act of airline terrorism in the Americas: thirty years ago, seventy-three people died in the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane. Now, one alleged mastermind lives freely in Miami, while another awaits trial on other charges in Texas. With Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez insisting the CIA was behind the bombing, why won’t the Bush administration at last resolve enduring suspicions? A tale of thwarted dreams, frustrated justice, and murder in the sky by Ann Louise Bardach A Note From Luis Posada150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC Education This is the tenth in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine's 150th anniversary. This installment is introduced by Jonathan Kozol, the National Book Award-winning author of several books on public education.  EDITOR’S CHOICE Babes in Toyland The Arcades Project, by Walter Benjamin; Carried Away, by Rachel Bowlby; Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping, edited by Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, and Sze Tsung Leong; Mall Maker, by M. Jeffrey Hardwick; Victor Gruen, by Alex Wall by Benjamin Schwarz Production Values American Idol lets us feel their pain by Dale Peck READING LIST Walk-In Closet Post-Brokeback, more gay love stories for straight people by Terry Castle A French Quarrel What Algeria’s past can—and can’t—tell us about the present day by Christopher Hitchens Cover to Cover A guide to additional releases by Benjamin Healy and Benjamin Schwarz  TRAVELS The Spell of San Miguel A Mexican hill town’s indolent beauty belies its fiery past by Martha Spaulding FOOD Out of the Frying Pan Dinner cooked in plastic bags may sound more like airplane food than haute cuisine—but today, thanks to a cutting-edge culinary technique, it’s both by Corby Kummer COMMERCE AND CULTURE The Iconographer In Julius Shulman’s photographs, modern architecture became seductive, comfortable, and immortal by Virginia Postrel TECHNOLOGY Making Haystacks, Finding Needles New programs let you easily categorize anything you come across on the Web or in your own files—and, more important, let you find it all again by James Fallows CONTENT Thank You, YouTube DIY video is making merely professional television seem stodgy, slow, and hopelessly last century by Michael Hirschorn POST MORTEM Unfair Dinkum Steve Irwin (1962–2006) by Mark Steyn THE PUZZLER Connect the DotsWord Court by Barbara Wallraff |
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