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July/August 2004 Issue
July/August 2004 Cover
James Fallows, "When George Meets John"; Joshua Green, "Dumb and Dumber"; Mark Bowden, "Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench"; Joshua Micah Marshall, "Kerry Faces the World"; Robert D. Kaplan, "Five Days in Fallujah"; Benjamin Wittes, "Enemy Americans"; William F. Buckley, Jr., "Aweigh"; P. J. O'Rourke, "I Agree With Me"; fiction by Robert Olen Butler; and much more. View Magazine
  • When George Meets John
    James Fallows
  • Dumb and Dumber
    Joshua Green
  • Pompadour With a Monkey Wrench
    Mark Bowden
  • Kerry Faces the World
    Josh Marshall
  • Five Days in Fallujah
    Robert D. Kaplan
  • In the Line of Fire
    Sage Stossel

Analysis: Trump’s newest indictment may be far more serious than his first.

Culture

Denial

By Leonard Nathan
July/August 2004 Issue
Saved Stories
audioear pictureHear the author read this poem (in RealAudio)

A black umbrella furled
in deepest mourning waits
in the hall, tears
drying on its shoulders.

None of us will claim it
when we depart, swearing
we have another
just like it at home.