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Elizabeth Wasserman

The War on Fat

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

Beinart Talks Back

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

Logging On For Love

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

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

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

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

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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