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Paul Starobin ..... Recent articles by Paul Starobin: My Lunch With LitvinenkoIn 2002, Atlantic contributing editor Paul Starobin sat down with Alexander Litvinenko for an interview over lunch. They talked about Litvinenko's defection, his relationship with notorious Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, and his suspicions about Putin and the FSB. Following Litvinenko's recent poisoning, Starobin dug out his notes. The Man With the Golden PhoneBefore Mark Warner was a politician, he was a wildly successful entrepreneur—and his success as a huckster shows why he may be a formidable challenger for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Murder in KazakhstanTwo of the men Paul Starobin interviewed for his December Atlantic piece have since been killed. Starobin comments. Misfit AmericaIs our evolving national character a liability in our foreign relations? Sultan of the SteppesKazakhstan's Soviet-schooled dictator—part economic modernizer, part Muslim progressive, part vainglorious despot—has enough oil to make himself into anything he wants. The Accidental AutocratVladimir Putin is not a democrat. Nor is he a czar like Alexander III, a paranoid like Stalin, or a religious nationalist like Dostoyevsky. But he is a little of all these—which is just what Russians seem to want. Dawn of the Daddy StateIf terrorism has made a global trend toward greater state power inevitable, then it's important to get authoritarianism right. Here's how. The Angry AmericanSocial rage as a measure of the country's moral and political well-being. |
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