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April 3, 2008

The Peril of Obama

The glamour of Obama may be hard to resist, but could it get the country into trouble if he wins the presidency?


March 21, 2008

McCain's Purple Cow

John McCain's actions on behalf of Vicki Iseman barely differ from the earmarking he has spent a career railing against.


March 5, 2008

The End of the American Exception

Economically speaking, America could soon be more European than Europe.


February 28, 2008

"We're On Our Way Home Now, Duckie!"

Sailing, swimming, and sipping nightcaps with William F. Buckley Jr.


February 21, 2008

A New Era in Pakistan

What the end of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf means for the war on terror.


February 14, 2008

'Roid Rage

What the professional sports world doesn't get about Washington.


February 2008 Unbound

Inside the Clinton Shake-Up

How Hillary's campaign managed itself into a ditch—and how it might get itself out.


January 31, 2008

Waiting for Gore

Department of Wild Speculation.


January 2008 Unbound

What's Next for Wall Street?

The presidential campaign has financial executives more concerned about who wins than they have been in years—or it ought to.


January 30, 2008

A Report From Iraq

Ambushed in Mosul, Bing West visits the last urban redoubt of al Qaeda in Iraq and sees a calmer battlefield—but political troubles ahead.


January 9, 2008

Doom, Gloom, Then Ecstasy

A behind-the-scenes report from New Hampshire primary night at the Hillary camp.


December 13, 2007

Oil Shocks

Clive Crook warns that it may soon be time to panic about the price of oil.


December 5, 2007

Compass Without Direction

The movie version of Philip Pullman's Golden Compass creates a luminous fantasy world, but loses the book's magnetic force of meaning.


December 4, 2007

The NIE in Doubt?

Well-placed sources suggest that Iran may have in fact accelerated its weapons program.


November 2007 Unbound

It's the Tribes, Stupid!

Quelling anarchy in Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere, will require building on tribal loyalties—not imposing democracy from the top down.


November 1, 2007

The Next Frontier

The creation of AFRICOM, the U.S. military's new Africa Command, offers the hope of steady, low-key progress in the war on terror.


October 26, 2007

Among the Kurds

Atlantic editor Graeme Wood describes his sojourn with the militant young bookworms of the PKK.


October 24, 2007

The Navy’s New Flat-Earth Strategy

The U.S. unveils a collaborative plan for policing the seas.


October 19, 2007

The Colbert Notion

Stephen Colbert plans to run for president in South Carolina. Here's a campaign strategy—and a list of who should worry.


October 18, 2007

Earth, Fire, Water

Revisiting the Armenian genocide.


October 4, 2007

Burma’s Next Chapter

Will the collapse of Burma’s oppressive junta bring democracy or ethnic turmoil?


September 2007 Unbound

Outsourcing Conflict

For all the notoriety of private military contractors like Blackwater, they represent an important aspect of the future of war. And that future is not all bad.


September 2007 Unbound

Military Air

The future of economy class?


September 17, 2007

Will the Petraeus Strategy Be the Last?

Bing West, a Marine officer in Vietnam and former assistant secretary of defense, offers a view from Iraq's restive Anbar province on Congress's recent Iraq hearings.


September 11, 2007

Bottom-Up Progress

Robert D. Kaplan gives credence to the testimony of Petraeus and Crocker and warns against a hasty withdrawal from Iraq.


September 5, 2007

The First Test of the Surge

We are about to find out what happens in Iraq after the U.S. troops leave.


August 24, 2007

Rereading Vietnam

The Vietnam analogy looms ever larger in the debate over Iraq, but the U.S. military has memories of that conflict that the public doesn't.


August 2, 2007

Raging Bulls

Atlantic staff editor Timothy Lavin runs with the bulls in Pamplona and lives to tell the tale.


June 26, 2007

Reviving the Beatles

Beatles fan Mark Bowden chats with Pat Dinizio about his band's new Beatles tribute album, "Meet the Smithereens"


May 10, 2007

New Jersey Gives Rudy a Boost

A look at how New Jersey's most conservative G.O.P. chairman may have just saved Giuliani's campaign millions.


May 4, 2007

Foreign Policy: Munich Versus Vietnam

"At the moment, the Vietnam analogy has the upper-hand. But don't count Munich out."


May 2, 2007

The Perils of Reagan Republicanism

Candidates who invoke the spirit of Reagan may live to regret it.


April 12, 2007

Karl Rove's Voter Fraud Fetish

The Bush administration cracks down on a phantom menace.


April 10, 2007

Smoke and Mirrors

What the State Department is not accomplishing in Iraq.


January 22, 2007

Was the Iraq Study Group Report Really a Flop?

For a document that was supposedly "dead-on-arrival," it's certainly having a strong influence.


December 29, 2006

That's Character

The dignity of Ford's post-presidency.


December 5, 2006

My Lunch With Litvinenko

In 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.


October 22, 2006

We Can't Just Withdraw

Iraq may be closer to an explosion of genocide than we know.


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