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Capitalize on your anti-materialism, and other advice
Features
How Skyscrapers Can Save The City
As the world's mega-cities expand to the bursting point, building up rather than out becomes ever more important. But history shows that skyscrapers do more than provide space: they connect people, foster creativity— and accelerate social progress.
Interview: Why measures aimed at saving our cities may actually threaten their survival.
Infographic: The ceaseless climb of the world's skyscrapers is a story of ever-evolving challenges. Here's how we reached the heights we have—and where we might go from here.
Book Review: Benjamin Schwarz on how Louis Sullivan—arguable inventor of the skyscraper and creator of some of America's greatest buildings—is finally getting his due.
Mind vs. Machine
Artificial intelligence has advanced to the point that computers can very nearly pass for human. What are they telling us about ourselves? To find out, the author enters himself in a famous battle of wits pitting man against computer.
Slideshow: Some of humanity's fears and dilemmas resulting from technology, from the Industrial Revolution to Y2K and beyond.
Inside the Secret Service
Granted exclusive access, our correspondent follows the agency on one of its toughest assignments.
Graphic—The Presidential Motorcade: A detailed look at security detail that moves the president on the ground.
Dispatches
Herman Cain, the GOP Wild Card
An unlikely candidate may disrupt the GOP's 2012 field.
Boca on the Black Sea
Stalin's subtropical paradise, now seeking sunbathers
Saying No to $1 Billion
Why the impoverished Sioux Nation won't take federal money
Putting Poppies in the Gas Tank
Can the CIA turn the Taliban's favorite crop into biofuel?
Rebirth of the Guinea Hens
In the wilds of Pennsylvania, a beleaguered flock of fowl rebounds.
Video: The Atlantic's national correspondent shows off his home and his guinea hens.
Doha: The New Movie Mecca
Qatar imports a film festival—and a Hollywood ethos.
What Perfection Sounds Like
How 3-D sound—coming soon—will change the way we hear
Books
The Moral Crusade Against Foodies
Gluttony dressed up as foodie-ism is still gluttony.
A Remembrance of Things
A memoir uses an exquisite collection of figurines to evoke one family's devastating history.
From Berlin to bin Laden
A history of the Baghdad Express illuminates the resilience of politicized Islam.
Cover to Cover
Academe on the latrine; the nuances of O'Nan; and more
Columns
When Freedom Is Bad for Business
In Iraq, American intervention has made it extremely hard to start a business.
Daydream Believer
How Justin Bieber found teenybop perfection
Alter Ego 
The 100 Greatest Quotes in 'The Wire' 
Synthetic Biology 
