Volume 301 No. 1 | January/February 2008
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What do we owe China?
by James Fallows
The firebrand behind The Wire
by Mark Bowden
Learn to speak Potomac!
by Dana Milbank
Is Bangladesh going under?
by Robert D. Kaplan
POETRY
A poem
by Stephen Sandy
What, after Iraq, are the problems most urgently confronting us?
STATE OF THE UNION
A report from the new Middle East—and a glimpse of its possible future
by Jeffrey Goldberg
STATE OF THE UNION
What non-Boomers have to fear
by Megan McArdle
ROUNDTABLE
Megan McArdle, Clive Crook, and Philip Longman debate the repercussions of looming Baby Boomer retirements
STATE OF THE UNION
A modest proposal to fix the schools
by Matt Miller
STATE OF THE UNION
Why the media got it wrong
by Amy Waldman
COMMENT
Our inevitable withdrawal from Iraq could poison American politics for a generation.
by Jonathan Rauch
High-stakes belly dancing; air for sale!
by Matthew Quirk
Dental windfalls; management secrets of the KKK; the radical engineer
POLL
The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about the future of North and South Korea.
THE NATION IN NUMBERS
In exurbs and fringe cities, the mortage crisis is having a domino effect
by Matthew Yglesias
How Dior and Balenciaga fought it out
by Benjamin Schwarz
Katie Couric’s long day’s journey into evening
by Caitlin Flanagan
How sex doomed the British Empire
by Christopher Hitchens
A historian’s education in the ways of empire
by Paul Kennedy
A guide to additional releases: Nureyev's life; South Africa's fractious past; Red Lobster as muse
CULTURE AND COMMERCE
The practical (and tacky) fruits of a revolution in typeface design. [Web only: Video: "Fine Print"]
by Virginia Postrel
Web-only
INTERVIEWS
Virginia Postrel talks with Gary Hustwit—director of Helvetica—about
filmmaking, creativity, and the expressive implications of one of the world's most popular typefaces
by Virginia Postrel
THE PUZZLER
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Rules of thump; settling the score
by Barbara Wallraff
