Calendar
What to watch for in the weeks ahead
Features
Lincoln's Great Depression
Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life, and if he were alive today, his condition would be treated as a "character issue"—that is, as a political liability. His condition was indeed a character issue: it gave him the tools to save the nation
Interviews: Joshua Wolf Shenk on how melancholy both tore Abraham Lincoln apart and gave him strength
Roy and His Rock
Roy Moore, the "Ten Commandments Judge," has embarked on an odyssey that is taking him and his controversial monument far beyond his home state of Alabama. He wants the Republican Party to bow down
Imperial Grunts
With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
From the storm systems of Florida to those of Washington, D. C.
Step
A drawing by Guy Billout
Agenda
Does Oil Have a Future?
Even the industry has its doubts
Mahmoud the Bashful
For Iran's new president, running from the 1979 hostage-taking is like John Hancock's running from the Declaration. What's his problem?
The Executioner's Swan Song?
The death penalty is not about to vanish overnight—but the Supreme Court's tolerance for it is diminishing rapidly
Primary Sources
The prospects for a united Korea; a new study of old studies; TV dads gain financial ground; AIDS in the Islamic world
Books
Another World
The Stripping of the Altars, by Eamon Duffy; The Mind of the Master Class, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese; Crazy Horse, by Mari Sandoz
The Secret of the Old Saw
Nancy Drew has two mommies
Gender Bending, Part 2
Women's books that men should read
Triumph at Trafalgar
In his victory over the French and the Spanish, Admiral Horatio Nelson's biggest guns were the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
New Fiction
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith
Interviews: The author of White Teeth and The Autograph Man talks about her new comedy of manners-cum-campus novel and the pitfalls of literary celebrity.
A Close Read
Willful Creatures: Stories, by Aimee Bender
Latex Conquers All
A revised compendium of the curses and clichés that beset modern feminism
Pursuits
The Old Man and the Daiquiri
A pilgrimage through Hemingway's Havana
Sweet Home Louisiana
Sampling artisanal rum from New Orleans—and one of the city's signature desserts
Great Scott
James Montgomery Doohan (1920—2005)
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Alter Ego 
The 100 Greatest Quotes in 'The Wire' 
Synthetic Biology 
