Volume 301 No. 2 | March 2008
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Using militias and marketing strategies, Christianity and Islam are competing for believers by promising Nigerians prosperity in this world as well as salvation in the next. A report from the front lines [Web only: Slideshow: "A struggle for souls and survival"]
by Eliza Griswold
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INTERVIEWS
Eliza Griswold, author of "God's Country," talks about the forces driving religious conflict in Nigeria and what the rivalry between Christians and Muslims could mean for Africa's most populous country.
by Justine Isola
Our secular future
by Alan Wolfe
China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here’s why it’s so effective anyway.
by James Fallows
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INTERVIEWS
James Fallows, author of "The Connection Has Been Reset," explains how he was able to probe the taboo subject of Chinese Internet censorship.
by Abigail Cutler
The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements.
by Christopher B. Leinberger
The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough
by Lori Gottlieb
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INTERVIEWS
Lori Gottlieb, the author of "Marry Him," talks about soul mates, all-consuming love, and why it makes sense to compromise those ideals.
by Sara Lipka
POETRY
by Linda Gregerson
COMMENT
America’s evangelicals are growing more moderate—and more powerful.
by Walter Russell Mead
Playing for all the marbles; the color of money; a slushier Iditarod; China's torch song
by Matthew Quirk
Judging politicians by their covers; the irrational goalie; looking death in the eye
POLL
The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about the prospects for democracy around the world.
THE NATION IN NUMBERS
America’s aging and congested road, rail, and air networks are threatening its economic health.
by Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes
Modernism's western rebirth
by Benjamin Schwarz
How a pushy, Type A mother stopped reading Jonathan Kozol and learned to love the public schools
by Sandra Tsing Loh
A newly reissued novel evokes the charms and hatreds of a lost world—and the enduring contradictions of anti-Semitism.
by Christopher Hitchens
A guide to additional releases: a prodigy's rise and fall; Gordimer's and Coetzee's latest fiction; Chicago's greatest brothel
FOOD
Three Tuscan recipes to welcome spring
by Corby Kummer
CONTENT
TV can avoid the music industry’s fate and survive the digital age, but only by beating the Internet at its own game.
by Michael Hirschorn
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THE PUZZLER
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Baby making; turn off the phone!
by Barbara Wallraff
