David Samuels, "Grand Illusions"; Ron Rosenbaum, "How to Trick an Online Scammer"; Brian Mockenhaupt, "The Army We Have"; Clive Crook on the lost American Dream; Virginia Postrel analyzes the color of your house; Mona Simpson assesses Primo Levi; Thomas Mallon on the JFK assassination; a new Saudi effort to deprogram terrorists; and much more.
With Rumsfeld and Powell gone, and Cheney’s power diminished, this is Condoleezza Rice’s moment. Can she salvage America’s standing in the Middle East—and defuse the threat of a nuclear Iran? Behind the curtain in Washington and Jerusalem with the secretary of state
And other ingenious acts of cyber-vengeance
To fight today’s wars with an all-volunteer force, the U.S. Army needs more quick-thinking, strong, highly disciplined soldiers. But creating warriors out of the softest, least-willing populace in generations has required sweeping changes in basic training.
This is the 16th in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine’s 150th anniversary.
Maybe it’s time to stop calling America the “land of opportunity.”
Hurricane futures; the Swiss at sea; Bill Gates finally graduates
Will Internet bootleggers kill Hollywood, or make it stronger?
Our dynastic Congress; the chess gender gap; surgeons who love Nintendo
The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about the future of Afghanistan.
The Saudi government is betting that instead of just locking terrorists away, it can reform them.
At home with the modernists
The most exhaustive book yet written about the Kennedy assassination should lay the conspiracy theories to rest once and for all—but it won’t.
Primo Levi’s Holocaust memoirs stand among the best literature of the 20th century, but his greatest creation was himself.
Gertrude Bell scaled the Alps, mapped Arabia, and midwifed the modern Middle East.
A guide to additional releases: a raft of Kissingeria; Robert E. Lee's letters; Penelope Lively's new novel; and more
In Florida, a quest for the classic family motel [Web only: Slideshow: "Motel Nostalgia."]
The color of a house is a sign of owner individuality—and a test of neighborhood tolerance.
Computers may not be able to make decisions for you (yet), but they can sharpen your judgment.
Publishers and authors should stop cowering; Google is less likely to destroy the book business than to slingshot it into the 21st century.
Dubious distinctions; the F-word
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