Features
God’s Country
Using militias and marketing strategies, Christianity and Islam are competing for believers by promising Nigerians prosperity in this world as well as salvation in the next. A report from the front lines [Web only: Slideshow: "A struggle for souls and survival"]
Interviews: Eliza Griswold, author of "God's Country," talks about the forces driving religious conflict in Nigeria and what the rivalry between Christians and Muslims could mean for Africa's most populous country.
And The Winner Is...
Our secular future
“The Connection Has Been Reset”
China’s Great Firewall is crude, slapdash, and surprisingly easy to breach. Here’s why it’s so effective anyway.
Interviews: James Fallows, author of "The Connection Has Been Reset," explains how he was able to probe the taboo subject of Chinese Internet censorship.
The Next Slum?
The subprime crisis is just the tip of the iceberg. Fundamental changes in American life may turn today’s McMansions into tomorrow’s tenements.
Marry Him!
The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough
Interviews: Lori Gottlieb, the author of "Marry Him," talks about soul mates, all-consuming love, and why it makes sense to compromise those ideals.
Agenda
Born Again
America’s evangelicals are growing more moderate—and more powerful.
Calendar
Playing for all the marbles; the color of money; a slushier Iditarod; China's torch song
Primary Sources
Judging politicians by their covers; the irrational goalie; looking death in the eye
The End of History
The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about the prospects for democracy around the world.
Clogged Arteries
America’s aging and congested road, rail, and air networks are threatening its economic health.
Books
California Cool
Modernism's western rebirth
Tales Out of School
How a pushy, Type A mother stopped reading Jonathan Kozol and learned to love the public schools
The 2,000-Year-Old Panic
A newly reissued novel evokes the charms and hatreds of a lost world—and the enduring contradictions of anti-Semitism.
Cover to Cover
A guide to additional releases: a prodigy's rise and fall; Gordimer's and Coetzee's latest fiction; Chicago's greatest brothel
The Caudillo’s Cloister
Searching for tranquility in the monastery Franco built [Web only: Slideshow: "An Unquiet Grave"]
Simple Pleasures
Three Tuscan recipes to welcome spring
The Revolution Will Be Televised
TV can avoid the music industry’s fate and survive the digital age, but only by beating the Internet at its own game.
Word Fugitives
Baby making; turn off the phone!
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