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Inside Man
The story of Timothy Geithner’s rise is one of hard work, bureaucratic mastery, and the culmination of a 40-year evolution in Democratic thinking about finance. His experience made him indispensable to saving the economy—and quite possibly the wrong person to reform it.
Video: Joshua Green explains the secret of Geithner’s success
A Nation on the Brink
It’s not just Al-Qaeda. Water shortages, collapsing oil supplies, war, refugees, pirates, poverty—why Yemen is failing.
Letting Go of My Father
His elderly father insisted that he could manage by himself. But he couldn’t. The author found himself utterly unprepared for one of life’s near certainties—the decline of a parent. Millions of middle-aged Americans, he discovered, are silently struggling to cope with a crisis that needs to be plucked from the realm of the personal and brought into full public view.
Man Versus Afghanistan
Will General Stanley McChrystal be our deus ex machina in Afghanistan? Or just the latest commander to succumb to the impersonal forces of history and geography?
Slideshow: Stanley McChrystal and his team take on the war in Afghanistan
Dispatches
Exodus
Less traffic through the Suez Canal means less of everything else for Egyptians—including hope.
Wild Ride
The short and brutal life of a Nascar engine
Outback Steakhouse
Australia’s bush meat is tasty, healthy, and enviro-friendly. But can you get people to eat it?
Let Us Now Trash Famous Authors
James Agee’s Depression classic still stings the family of its subjects.
Slideshow: Author Christina Davidson discusses how Walker Evans's Depression-era photography is viewed by his subjects' descendents.
Hipster Moonshine
Hooch isn’t just for hillbillies anymore.
All the Sheikh’s Horses
By the skin of his teeth, Dubai’s ruler opens the world’s most ambitious—and outrageous—racetrack.
Dirigible Dreams
Is one of aviation’s most enduring technological hopes about to become a reality?
Books
Intimate History
A grand history and an elegiac new film explore Britain’s recent, and irrecoverable, past.
Video: Benjamin Schwarz comments on scenes from Terence Davies's nostalgic documentary
The Enthusiast
Bill Simmons has set a new and unbeatable standard by writing like a fan—just far better.
Quiet Desperation
Mrs. Bridge is an American masterpiece of prewar repression and postwar realism.
Lost in the Levant
Kai Bird’s affecting personal history of the Arab-Israeli tangle
Cover to Cover
Snake eyes; the asylum seeker
Interview/Slideshow: Images and insights from the author of a new photography book about abandoned mental asylums
Columns
Saints on Percocet
Drug-addicted healers are elevating hospital drama to metaphysical art.
E-Donnybrook
No matter who wins the battle between the Kindle and the iPad, it marks the return of machines as market-makers.
My Inflation Nightmare
Am I crazy, or is the commentariat ignoring our biggest economic threat?
Alter Ego 
The 100 Greatest Quotes in 'The Wire' 
Synthetic Biology 
