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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
Joshua Green talks about his experience profiling Hillary Clinton and shares his thoughts on her presidential prospects
by Abigail Cutler [Web only]
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
Jonathan Rauch, author of "Sex, Lies, and Video Games," talks about a new generation of innovative and emotionally complex video games.
by Jennie Rothenberg [Web only]
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
Militant Cuban exile Luis Posada discusses his actions, explains his motivations, and advises Ann Louise Bardach on what to write. [With an introduction by Bardach] [Web only]
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 Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon [Web only]
by Barbara Wallraff