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Features
The End of White America?
Culturally, America is already post-white. Demographically, we're headed there, too.
Flashbacks: Articles from the turn of the 20th century onwards show that the breakdown of racial hegemony in America has been a slow, challenging process
American Girl
The radical normalcy of Michelle Obama.
[Web only: Video: "South Side Story"]
Race Over?
An inside look at how the Obama campaign tackled the thorniest issue of all
Interviews: Archbishop Desmond Tutu reflects on terrorism, torture, and what the first African American president might mean for Africa.
Then and Now
How has America changed since 2000?
Spotlight: Reports and commentary by James Fallows, Mark Bowden, Christopher Hitchens, Pat Buchanan, Robert D. Kaplan, and others.
The Founders’ Great Mistake
The true culprits behind the excesses of the Bush presidency
State of the Union: The filibuster is obstructive, anachronistic, and undemocratic. It's time to kill it off for good.
The Man in the Middle
What Chuck Schumer thinks he knows about the middle class; a profile
Dispatch: Market crashes are inevitable, but financial innovation and globalization have massively increased our vulnerability to them. Unless we make big regulatory changes—changes on a global scale—we should prepare for more years like this one.
The Hardest Job in Football
Producing NFL games is an art peculiar to the modern age. Meet Bob Fishman, master of the form
Dispatches
Security Blanket
Afghanistan’s most venerable relic faces its greatest challenge.
Road Worriers
With volatile gas prices, imploding suburban real estate, and an incoming administration, the New Urbanists seize their moment.
Dirty Sexy Money
Is porn recession-proof?
Food Fight
Iron Chef, Armed-Forces style
Found in Translation
The Basques reclaim their cultural identity, one word at a time.
Old-Fashioned
Our correspondent toasts a growing trend: the return of the classic cocktail
Strange Paradise
Panama has pristine jungles, a nascent ecotourism industry—and the dark allure of a Graham Greene novel.
[Web only: Slideshow: "Panama’s Brooding History"]
iGov
How geeks are opening up government on the Web
Books
Globaloney
A new report from the country’s top intelligence office predicts a fundamental change in America’s foreign policy—but not the change Barack Obama has promised.
Imperfect Union
A brilliant new book probes the intimate, unequal relationship between Virginia Woolf and the woman who cared for her.
Mercy!
Toni Morrison’s new historical novel is a monotonous series of flashbacks, larded with anachronisms.
Cool Cat
Our new president has a feline’s legendary nimbleness and luck—but there are downsides to being a cat.
Columns
Lost In Space
Is Battlestar Galactica a great television epic—or proof that there is no such thing?
[Web only: Video: "Far Out"]
End Times
Can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism?
Alter Ego 
The 100 Greatest Quotes in 'The Wire' 
Synthetic Biology 
