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Features
How Do I Love Thee?
A growing number of Internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment
Interviews: The author of this month's cover story talks about love and the new research that's being produced by Internet matchmaking services
The Checkpoint
For Israeli soldiers checkpoint life is dull, alienating, and stress-inducing. For the Palestinians it is frustrating, humiliating, and anger-provoking. Yet it’s the human face of the occupation—and as close as some Israelis and Palestinians will ever come
The Preacher
Bishop T. D. Jakes wants his flock not only to do good but to do well, and his brand of entrepreneurial spirituality has made him perhaps the most influential black leader in America today
The Right Way
Seven steps toward a last chance in Iraq
Special Report: By Kenneth M. Pollack and the Iraq Policy Working Group of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution
Civil Rights & Black Identity
Articles by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr., with an introduction by Randall Kennedy.
Not Conspicuously Intelligent Design
A cartoon by Bruce McCall
Agenda
Demolition Men
Ariel Sharon and Junichiro Koizumi point the way to a centrist resurgence in American politics
Justice Delayed
Why we still don’t have a way to put terrorists on trial
Dangerous Games
The most heated competition in the 2008 Olympics could take place not in a stadium but in the Taiwan Strait
Schools for Scandal
Republicans might—or might not—want to look backward for lessons on handling life under a cloud
Capitalism: The Movie
Why Americans don’t value markets enough—and why that matters
Primary Sources
Keeping tabs on the war on terror; bigger, brainier downtowns; synonyms make you stupid
Books
Another 5001 Nights at the Movies
American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, edited by Phillip Lopate
Home Alone
The dark heart of shelter-lit addiction
Mommies Dearest, Part 2
More top literary reasons why it sucks to have chic parents
New Fiction
Becoming Strangers, by Louise Dean
A Close Read
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit
Interviews: Essayist Rebecca Solnit, the author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost, discusses the art of falling off the map
What’s Left?
A new book by the West’s most influential Marxist shows him to be both “the most profound essayist wielding a pen” and on the wrong side of history
Pursuits
Open for Business
A post-Katrina visit to the restaurants of New Orleans, where eating out has become essential group therapy
Spy’s-eye View
Google Earth and its rival programs offer (civilians) a new way to look at the world
Going Coastal
Away from the heat and bustle of Morocco’s historic cities lie some of the friendliest and most tranquil places in North Africa
Mister Available
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005)
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Alter Ego 
The 100 Greatest Quotes in 'The Wire' 
Synthetic Biology 
