Volume 299 No. 3 | April 2007
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Climate change in the next century (and beyond) could be enormously disruptive, spreading disease and sparking wars. It could also be a windfall for some people, businesses, and nations. A guide to how we all might get along in a warming world
by Gregg Easterbrook
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INTERVIEWS
Gregg Easterbrook talks about his cover story, "Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?," and the unexpected by-products of climate change.
by Timothy Lavin
The violence in Darfur is usually attributed to ethnic hatred. But global warming may be primarily to blame.
by Stephan Faris
A reality-TV show is teaching the Chinese how to succeed in business. [Web-only: Watch video clips from the show]
by James Fallows
Across our inner cities, the code of omerta has spread from organized crime to ordinary citizens. “Stop snitching” has become a motto to live—or die—by, as John Dowery Jr. discovered. [Web-only: Watch related video clips]
by Jeremy Kahn
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SIDEBAR
Jeremy Kahn rides along with Baltimore's Homicide Operations Squad in search of murder witnesses
by Jeremy Kahn
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INTERVIEWS
Jeremy Kahn, author of "The Story of a Snitch," talks about the growing problem of witness intimidation and the challenges of reporting a story about it.
by Abigail Cutler
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FLASHBACKS
Articles dating back to the 1800s trace the evolution of America's gang problem.
by Matthew Borushko
150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC
This is the 14th in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine’s 150th anniversary. For the full text of these articles, visit www.theatlantic.com/ideastour.
Inside the Bush administration’s steroids scandal
by John Freeman Gill
[with audio]
by Susan Hahn
[with audio]
by Maxine Kumin
COMMENT
The way to end culture wars is to slug them out state by state.
by Jonathan Rauch
Clones for dinner; Tolkien's last words; beatifying John Paul II
Compiled by Matthew Quirk
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS
Mass migration has left many towns in Mexico half-empty, but much wealthier.
by Matthew Quirk
The boldest profession; hot or not?; Iran's oil woes; a nation of multitaskers
POLL
The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about Russian President Vladimir Putin's leadership and relations with the West
FIRST PRINCIPLES
What war on the middle class?
by Clive Crook
POST MORTEM
Denny Doherty (1940–2007)
by Mark Steyn
EDITOR’S CHOICE
The history of Vogue
by Benjamin Schwarz
When it comes to high-end handbags, you are what you tote.
by Lynn Yaeger
When girls leave home for college, it affects them far more deeply than it does boys—and there’s no way parents can protect them once they go.
by Caitlin Flanagan
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INTERVIEWS
Lynn Peril talks about the evolution of girls' college experiences, and her new book, College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now.
by Katie Bacon
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FLASHBACKS
Articles from the 1890s through the 1960s explore the academic, social, and sexual debates surrounding women at college
by Eva Hoffman
Clive James champions justice and common sense, with style.
by Christopher Hitchens
A guide to additional releases: the London Blitz; a life of Beatrix Potter; poor people the world over; and more
TRAVELS
Watching the people, playing the ponies, and drinking the water in Saratoga Springs
by Wayne Curtis
FOOD
What to look for when buying knives
by Corby Kummer
CULTURE AND COMMERCE
Once upon a time, lofts were cheap spaces for struggling artists. Today they are phony and pricey, and that’s just fine.
by Virginia Postrel
TECHNOLOGY
Newly sophisticated “machine translators” let you browse foreign Web sites in real time.
by James Fallows
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James Fallows on what most surprised him about this topic and the biggest development that happened after press time.
by James Fallows
CONTENT
Why the social-media revolution will go out with a whimper
by Michael Hirschorn
THE PUZZLER
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Fast and unloose; late-model blues
by Barbara Wallraff
