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The Wars of John McCain

Is there any war McCain thinks can’t be won?

How the West Was Wired

Two idealistic Taiwanese businessmen happened into the most rural part of China and thought: Let’s bring it from the 15th century to the 21st. [Web-only: Slideshow: China's Wild West narrated by James Fallows]

The Petraeus Doctrine

Iraq-style counterinsurgency is fast becoming the U.S. Army’s organizing principle. Is our military preparing to fight the next war, or the last one?

All Counterinsurgency Is Local

Prosecuting the war in Afghanistan from provincial capitals has been disastrous; we need to turn our military strategy inside out.

Land of Green Gables

[Web-only: Slideshow: Anne's Land narrated by Wayne Curtis]

Lifting the Bamboo Curtain

As 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.

Primary Sources

Dread Pirate bin Laden; more than five for fighting; schizo in Gitmo

The Great Disruption

How scarcity, affluence, and biofuel production are wreaking havoc on food prices

Space Invaders

How preparations for tomorrow’s satellite wars could ruin life as we know it today

Heart of Darwin

The places in and around London that shaped the naturalist as a young man

What Rumsfeld Got Right

How Donald Rumsfeld remade the U.S. military for a more uncertain world [Web only: Video: "Donald Rumsfeld—The Change Agent"]

The Master and Medvedev

Why Vladimir Putin’s successful effort to handpick his replacement may backfire

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China’s Silver Lining

Why smoggy skies over Beijing represent the world’s greatest environmental opportunity

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Emboldening the enemy; carry more cash; socially green; GPS gets lost

Asphalt Dreams

Can better highways save Afghanistan?

The Accidental Foreign Policy

How an early gaffe and an excruciatingly long primary season helped Barack Obama find a distinctive voice on foreign affairs

Thai Noon

A few hours northeast of Bangkok, American-style cowboy culture thrives. [Web only: Slideshow: "Thailand's Cowboy Country"]

Unforgiven

The rift between a beleaguered prime minister and a grieving novelist mirrors the division confounding Israel.

How to Grow a Gang

By deporting record numbers of Latino criminals, the U.S. may make its gang problem worse.

Prophesying Palestine

A look back at Atlantic predictions from the 1920s and '30s about prospects for a Jewish homeland.

A Smuggler’s Story

Meet Oleg Khintsagov, a small-time hustler in Russia who can get you dried fish, furs, Turkish chandeliers … and weapons-grade uranium. He’s not the only one.

Oh! Kolkata!

Calcutta has been renamed. Now, with investment on the rise, tech companies moving in, and a growing middle class, can it be reborn? [Web only: Slideshow: "The Streets of Kolkata"]

Bay of Capitalist Pigs

How Havana might change after Castro

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Miami: The Next Big Start-Up City?

How the city became a center for innovation

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A Brief History of Romantic Comedies

From The Atlantic's Chris Orr

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Life in 'the New Arctic'

A moving portrait of a fading landscape

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The Rise of New York City

A fascinating look at Manhattan in the 1940s

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What Is Methane Hydrate?

"Flaming ice" is a vast natural energy source

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NASA's Time-Lapse of the Sun

Now with epic dubstep music

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Shaken Not Tuned: Cocktail Experiments

Can a tuning fork improve a cocktail?

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Is He Cheating? A 1950s Guide

'That little blonde secretary from the office?’

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New Yorkers: Vintage Vacuum-Tube Amps

Risking electric shock to restore old amplifiers

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The DIY Piano-Bicycle

Everybody needs a hobby

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What Does It Take to Make Real Craft Gin?

Tour the Green Hat Gin distillery

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Letter From the Editor

The June 2013 issue

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What Straights Can Learn From Same-Sex Couples

New insight from decades of research

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The End of the Mall Rat

A tribute to that pillar of teen culture

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