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COMMENT Coalition of the Waiting The U.S.-European alliance is not on its last legs— and when Bush goes, it could emerge stronger than ever
by Jonathan Rauch
FIRST PRINCIPLES Ordinary People A remarkable celebration of unremarkable lives deflates pat social theories of both the right and the left
by Clive Crook
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Containment Strategy Iran. North Korea. Uganda? Why the Pentagon ranks Africa’s AIDS crisis as a leading security threat
by Stephan Faris
THE FUTURE Election Day 2008 A letter from Florida
by Christopher Buckley
POLL Pakistan: Ally or Adversary? The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about Pakistan and its president, Pervez Musharraf
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS Iran: A Minority Report Mapping the rise of discontent
by Graeme Wood
Primary Sources Afghan schools under attack; the perils of stock-tip spam; marriage as a matter of life and death; Vietnamese astrology gets it right
They Made America
Who are the most influential figures in American history? The Atlantic recently asked ten eminent historians. The result was The Atlantic’s Top 100—and some insight into the nature of influence and the contingency of history. Was Walt Disney really more influential than Elizabeth Cady Stanton? Benjamin Spock than Richard Nixon? Elvis Presley than Lewis and Clark? John D. Rockefeller than Bill Gates? Babe Ruth than Frank Lloyd Wright? Let the debates begin.
by Ross Douthat
How to Get a Nuclear Bomb
It wouldn’t be easy. But it wouldn’t be impossible. A reporter travels the world to find the weaknesses a terrorist could exploit
by William Langewiesche
Postcards From Tomorrow Square
Our man in Shanghai samples budget beer, survives subway scrimmages, and starts living the contradictions of China’s breakneck modernization
by James Fallows
Striking a Pose
Fifty years ago, yoga was the province of California communes and fringy New Agers. Now it’s teetering on the brink of overexposure and commodification. So, is it a spiritual antidote to the upscale Western lifestyle, or just the latest manifestation?
by Hanna Rosin
INTERVIEWS Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC American Icons
Hanna Rosin, the author of "Striking a Pose," discusses yoga's journey from Himalayan mountaintops to the studio down the street.
by Jennie Rothenberg [Web only]
This is the eleventh in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine's 150th anniversary. This installment is introduced by Mark Bowden, an Atlantic national correspondent.
POETRY Five Household Statues of Buddha
by Dick Allen
POETRY On Being Fifty-Something
by Debora Greger
EDITOR’S CHOICE Walt's World
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler
by Benjamin Schwarz
Books of the Year
Selected by The Atlantic’s literary editor, Benjamin Schwarz
ROUNDUP Books in BriefOf Sex and Marriage
In time for the holidays—a comprehensive selection of books highlighted in The Atlantic Monthly in 2006 [Web only]
Stop it, you’re killing my libido
by Cristina Nehring
True North
A career-spanning anthology reveals again why Alice Munro is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years
by Mona Simpson
New Fiction
The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro
by Deborah Eisenberg
NEW FICTION Out of Character
On Richard Ford’s latest
by Joseph O'Neill
Rich Man’s Burden
The steely resolve of Andrew Carnegie
by Christopher Hitchens
CURRENT AFFAIRS Cover to Cover
A guide to additional releases
by Benjamin Healy
TRAVELS In Hot Water
Midwinter pool hopping in Iceland
by Wayne Curtis
FOOD Dumbing Down Wine
Chain stores threaten to destroy independent wineshops— and your chances of finding interesting wine
by Corby Kummer
CULTURE AND COMMERCE In Praise of Chain Stores
They aren’t destroying local flavor—they’re providing variety and comfort
by Virginia Postrel
TECHNOLOGY Microsoft Reboots
A preview of the new versions of Windows and Office
by James Fallows
CONTENT Get Me Rewrite!
A modest proposal for reinventing newspapers for the digital age
by Michael Hirschorn
POST MORTEM She Said What She Thought
Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006)
by Mark Steyn
THE PUZZLER Minding Your P's and Q'sWord Fugitives
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon [Web only]
by Barbara Wallraff