Volume 300 No. 3 | October 2007
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How Bill Clinton, Ira Magaziner, and a team of management consultants are creating new markets, reinventing philanthropy—and trying to save the world. [Web only: Slideshow: "The Clinton Effect."]
by Jonathan Rauch
Socially responsible investing is neither as profitable nor as responsible as advertised. But if you insist, here’s how to do it right.
by Henry Blodget
It’s easy to see how evolution can account for the dark streaks in human nature—the violence, treachery, and cruelty. But how does it produce kindness, generosity, and heroism?
by Olivia Judson
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INTERVIEWS
Olivia Judson, author of "The Selfless Gene," discusses the evolutionary roots of altruism and fellow feeling
by Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
INTERVIEWS
What the future holds for Pakistan—and for America
by Joshua Hammer
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INTERVIEWS
Joshua Hammer, author of "After Musharraf," talks with Atlantic senior editor Joy de Menil about Pakistan's future and its implications for the United States
by Joy de Menil
150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC
Articles by Jane Addams, George Soros, and others on the art of giving.
POEM
A poem
by James Lasdun
POEM
A poem
by David Thorburn
POEM
A poem
by Phillis Levin
Dispatches from the Aspen Ideas Festival
COMMENT
Has presidential power reached its zenith under Bush? Don’t bet on it.
by Charlie Savage
TV writers feel the pinch; the boys of November; Clarence Thomas tells all
Compiled by Matthew Quirk
The pirate polity; AK-47 alert; points for posture; the religiosity gender gap
POLL
The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign policy authorities about the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS
The world’s most essential oil field may be in decline.
by James D. Hamilton
FIRST PRINCIPLES
Some economists are beginning to doubt the benefits of free trade. What’s wrong with them?
by Clive Crook
SCIENCE
Can meteorologists armed with supercomputers and a few tons of soot stop a hurricane from reaching the Gulf Coast? Can they stop it without getting sued?
by Graeme Wood
Editor’s Choice: Finding the private lives of medieval men and women in the pages of their prayer books
by Benjamin Schwarz
The “greatest sports book ever written” is a mystery to Americans, for reasons all too revealing of national character.
by Joseph O’Neill
In Philip Roth’s latest, the characters are treated with disregard—and the readers with something like contempt.
by Christopher Hitchens
A guide to additional releases
TRAVELS
Bhutan may be modernizing rapidly, but it’s still one of the most unspoiled places on Earth. [Web only: Slideshow: "A Happy Place."]
by Mark Jenkins
TECHNOLOGY
Protecting files and programs need not make you crazy—or even cost you a cent
by James Fallows
CONTENT
By bringing order to the Web, Facebook could become as important to us as Google
by Michael Hirschorn
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THE PUZZLER
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Our cars, ourselves; affair-whether friends
by Barbara Wallraff
