What McCain Didn't Know About Sarah Palin
And why he probably would have picked her anyway
Bill Clinton Is Back
"Given the pettiness of recent intraparty squabbling, in particular Clinton's own behavior in the primaries, his speech was a reminder of his astonishing political skill... his legacy and his future as his party's elder statesman are more than intact."
Hillary Goes Out With a Whimper
"Clinton didn't seem angry or betrayed or entitled or any of the things that critics have attributed to her—she seemed merely unenthused, and so did the audience."
Of Beer, Algae, and Sailing
Our correspondent reports from the Olympic sailing competition in Qingdao.
In Defense of the Beta Blocker
Is this a performance drug that could actually increase the fairness of Olympic contests?
At Putin's Mercy
"The pitiable David-and-Goliath asymmetry of Georgia's dustup with Russia has obscured both the United States' culpability in bringing about the conflict, and the nature of the separatism that caused it in the first place"
All Bets Are Off
A population of gambling enthusiasts plays bemused host to a series of equestrian events unrelated to racing or betting
An Air-Conditioned Nightmare
In Afghanistan, some soldiers are pampered. Should they be?
Who Says Penn is Finished?
He could be back sooner than you think
Darwin's Revenge
Statues of two 19th-century rivals battle it out in London's Natural History Museum
The Scene of the Crime
Caitlin Flanagan offers a guided tour of '70s-era Berkeley, where the infamous Patty Hearst kidnapping saga unfolded
The Hillary Clinton Memos
A complete index to the internal communications referenced in "The Front-Runner's Fall"
The Joyous Peculiarity of David Carr
Corby Kummer—David Carr's editor at The Atlantic—takes stock of Carr's gritty new memoir, The Night of the Gun.
The Olympics' Second City
Our correspondent attends the first Olympic soccer game at Shanghai stadium and explains why Shanghai is only grudgingly playing co-host for this year's Olympics
Behind the Indian Embassy Bombing
"You would think that the Bush administration would be coaching the Karzai government not to antagonize Pakistan unnecessarily by cozying up to India."
This Must Be the Place: Byun 
The All-American Soap Box Derby (1936) 
Video Documentary: The Impact of a Principal 
