Nuclear Options
President Obama and his advisers are facing a series of questions on Iran and Israel. Every answer is discouraging.
Features
The Point of No Return
The Iranian nuclear threat will soon come to a head. A preemptive attack by Israel could be disastrous. It might happen anyway.
Video: Jeffrey Goldberg discusses the Middle East's shaky future with Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis.
Living With a Nuclear Iran
Henry Kissinger believes that containing Iran will depend on one thing: showing its leaders that we're willing to go to war.
Whale Crossing
As sea traffic booms, can new shipping lanes and speed limits save the right whale from extinction?
The News Merchant
TV news is driven, more and more, by the latest scoops on JonBenet, Caylee, and Natalee. The inside story of how tabloid-TV stories are made, bought, and paid for—and the man who's often behind it all.
Prison Without Walls
With prisons stretched to the breaking point, some cities are trying a radical new idea: letting convicts roam free, under constant electronic surveillance.
Dispatches
Earthbound
The space-shuttle program is coming to a quiet end. Is the same true for the era of space exploration?
Japan Surrenders
The author returns to his old Tokyo neighborhood and finds an inward-looking country that has lost its ambition.
Slideshow: Family photos from the Fallows's late-1980s residency in a Tokyo suburb.
High Strung
The inexplicable collapse of a tennis phenom
Flogging Genghis Khan
Mongolia revives its strongman. Will the hordes follow?
A Death on Facebook
Intimacy and loss in the age of social media
A More Perfect Union
In San Francisco, two dominant trends of the cocktail world are converging, with exquisite results.
Video: A San Francisco bartender updates two old-fashioned drinks with fresh, local ingredients.
On Bolivia’s Coca Trail
High anxiety amid giant Tree Ferns and landslides in Bolivia’s little-traveled—and dazzling—Carrasco National Park
The Pen Gets Mightier
One entrepreneur’s latest effort to revolutionize how we think, learn, play music, and order coffee in Chinese
Books
Killing Her Softly
A measured, sympathetic—and ultimately damning— portrait of the 20th century’s most wickedly funny novelist
Chosen
The toxin of anti-Semitism isn’t a threat only to Jews.
Video: Hitchens discusses the root causes of Jew-hatred—and his own surprising discovery of Jewish heritage—with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and novelist Martin Amis.
Cover to Cover
Los Angeles modernism revisited; Alan Bennett's new memoir; the pain of fish; the final word on the Final Solution; and more
Columns
The Great Stock Myth
Why the market’s rate of return—and your nest egg—may never recover
And the World Turned
Cheesy, clichéd, and still strangely bewitching, soap operas are falling victim to their own bastard children.
Video: James Parker comments on two scenes from As the World Turns, pointing out the soft music, the peculiar dialogue, and the monologue to the unconscious lover.
Alter Ego 
The 100 Greatest Quotes in 'The Wire' 
Synthetic Biology 
