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The Agenda My Big Fat Straight WeddingWhat’s the difference between homosexuals and heterosexuals? In matters outside the bedroom, American culture and law are at last acknowledging that there is none. 
Dining with DionysusA cooking school in the Greek islands shows that simplicity plus necessity equals great cuisine. Slideshow The Grecian FormulaCorby Kummer reveals the secrets of Greek cuisine in a narrated photo tour from his Aegean island cooking class. 
Cover Story Rhetorical QuestionsWho will win the presidential debates? What does each candidate’s use of words say about how he would govern as president? Foreign Affairs Lifting the Bamboo CurtainAs China and India vie for power and influence, Burma has become a strategic battleground. Four Americans with deep ties to this fractured, resource-rich country illuminate its current troubles, and what the U.S. should do to shape its future. More Articles On Foreign Affairs |
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Politics The Front-Runner's FallHillary Clinton’s campaign was undone by a clash of personalities more toxic than anyone imagined. E-mails and memos—published here for the first time—reveal the backstabbing and conflicting strategies that produced an epic meltdown. The Clinton MemosRead the full collection of the campaign's strategy memos and emails. 
The Critics Girl, InterruptedHow Patty Hearst’s kidnapping reflected and ravaged American culture in the 1970s Politics & Society Reconcilable DifferencesObama and McCain both say they want to usher in a new, less divisive brand of politics. Which of them has the better chance? Is bipartisanship still possible? 
Sidebar Darwin's RevengeStatues of two 19th-century rivals battle it out in London's Natural History Museum 
Gut ReactionsThe termite’s stomach, of all things, has become the focus of large-scale scientific investigations. Could the same properties that make the termite such a costly pest help us solve global warming?
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Notes on the Conventions
Atlantic articles spanning nearly a hundred years consider the changing role of political conventions in America's electoral process.
Past Present
After Musharraf
What the future holds for Pakistan—and for America. By Joshua Hammer (October 2007)
Past Present
Understanding Putin
Vladimir 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. In 2005, Paul Starobin profiled Russia's enigmatic leader.
Past Present
Is There Life After Rankings?
U.S. News & World Report's latest college rankings list has just been released. In 2005, The Atlantic published a report from one college president, whose school now shuns the U.S. News ranking system—and has not only survived but thrived.
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Kay Ryan Named Poet Laureate
Read a sampling of Ryan's Atlantic poems, including "Among English Verbs" (1998), "This Life" (1993), "Emptiness" (1993), and "Hailstorm" (2003).
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