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The War on Fat

Entertainment Nov 29 2007, 10:26 AM ET

A trip through the Atlantic's archives offers revealing insights into American body politics… More »

Beinart Talks Back

Entertainment Apr 12 2006, 11:32 AM ET

The author of The Good Fight defends his vision of the American Left… More »

Logging On For Love

Technology Feb 7 2006, 12:12 PM ET

The author of this month's cover story talks about love and the new research that's being produced by Internet matchmaking services… More »

Rebels Without a Cause

Technology Mar 9 2005, 11:23 AM ET

Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, the authors of Nation of Rebels, on how the myth of a counterculture derailed the political left… More »

Islam’s Interpreter

Entertainment Apr 29 2004, 4:00 AM ET

Bernard Lewis talks about his seventy years spent studying the Middle East—and his thoughts on the region's future… More »

The Fiction of Life

Entertainment May 7 2003, 4:00 AM ET

Azar Nafisi, the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, on the dangers of using religion as an ideology, and the freedoms that literature can bring… More »

Iran on the Brink

International Aug 1 2002, 11:57 AM ET

In 1997, the election of the popular reformist Mohammed Khatami as president raised hopes that the nearly twenty-year enmity between Iran and the U.S. might soon subside. For a while it seemed that images of the hostage crisis, of Iranian masses burning American flags and shouting "Marg bar Amrika" (Death to America), and of clerics decrying the "Great Satan," were being replaced by that of a conciliatory Khatami on CNN calling for "dialogue" and "understanding."…… More »

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