Volume 299 No. 2 | March 2007
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A kidnapping at a Philippine resort triggered a yearlong hunt for pirate terrorists and their American hostages. A behind-the-scenes tale of intrigue, spycraft, and betrayal. [Web-only: Watch CIA surveillance footage and video interviews with the story's key players]
by Mark Bowden
Web-only
Mark Bowden, author of "Jihadists in Paradise," on hunting down the story of Abu Sabaya.
by Justine Isola
The software mogul Tim Gill has a mission: Stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started. How a network of gay political donors is stealthily fighting sexual discrimination and reshaping American politics
by Joshua Green
A singing workforce, Mongolian millionaires in Porsches, and saving the planet—inside the empire of a Chinese tycoon with more than money on his mind. [Web-only: "At Home With Mr. Zhang." A narrated slideshow.]
by James Fallows
150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC
This is the thirteenth in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine’s 150th anniversary.
POETRY
by Campbell McGrath
POETRY
by WisŁawa Szymborska
COMMENT
Bush is fading. Bush Republicanism is here to stay.
by Ross Douthat
Compiled by Matthew Quirk
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS
The disintegration of a Baghdad neighborhood
by Ilana Ozernoy and Ali Hamdani
The European baby bust; life on two dollars a day; the bovine menace
The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
FIRST PRINCIPLES
Cheap private schools are educating poor children across the developing world—but without much encouragement from the international aid establishment.
by Clive Crook
BRIEF LIVES
A vote for France’s first female president may not deliver the political change the country wants.
by Charles Trueheart
POST MORTEM
Saparmurat Niyazov (1940–2006), the nuttiest despot
by Mark Steyn
EDITOR’S CHOICE
Britain vs. France through the ages
by Benjamin Schwarz
Women prefer food to sex with their husbands—and that’s OK.
by Sandra Tsing Loh
Web-only
INTERVIEWS
Joan Sewell talks about her new book, I'd Rather Eat Chocolate, and the
politically incorrect reality that most married women just aren't that into
sex
by Sara Lipka
READING LIST
by Terry Castle
A review of Tales of Chekhov
by Mona Simpson
A new history of Orientalism reveals the vagary and variety of the field—and the danger of declaring any area of inquiry off-limits.
by Christopher Hitchens
A guide to additional releases: Mamet on Hollywood, murder in Chicago, Jane Smiley's latest, and more
TRAVELS
A visit to the home of the famed Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus [Web-only: "The Swedish Way." A narrated photo essay.]
by Emily Hiestand
FOOD
Banning trans fats probably makes sense from a public-health standpoint—but will the doughnut survive?
by Corby Kummer
CULTURE AND COMMERCE
It is the same in the eye of every beholder.
by Virginia Postrel
TECHNOLOGY
New programs back up everything you do— in real time, online, and automatically.
by James Fallows
Web-only
THE PUZZLER
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Kind husbands; the land of iTunesia
by Barbara Wallraff
