The End of White America?
Culturally, America is already post-white. Demographically, we're headed there, too.
January/February 2009
In This Issue
Michael Hirschorn on how The New York Times could survive; Mark Bowden considers the hardest job in football; Ta-Nehisi Coates profiles Michelle Obama; Hua-Hsu on post-white America; James Parker on Battlestar Gallactica; Wayne Curtis on the return of the classic cocktail; and much more.
Features
American Girl
The radical normalcy of Michelle Obama.
[Web only: Video: "South Side Story"]
Race Over?
An inside look at how the Obama campaign tackled the thorniest issue of all
Then and Now
How has America changed since 2000?
The Founders’ Great Mistake
The true culprits behind the excesses of the Bush presidency
The Man in the Middle
What Chuck Schumer thinks he knows about the middle class; a profile
The Hardest Job in Football
Producing NFL games is an art peculiar to the modern age. Meet Bob Fishman, master of the form
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Louie Palu Security Blanket
Afghanistan’s most venerable relic faces its greatest challenge.
Craig A. Tucker Road Worriers
With volatile gas prices, imploding suburban real estate, and an incoming administration, the New Urbanists seize their moment.
John Cuneo Dirty Sexy Money
Is porn recession-proof?
Food Fight
Iron Chef, Armed-Forces style
Found in Translation
The Basques reclaim their cultural identity, one word at a time.
Justin Ide Old-Fashioned
Our correspondent toasts a growing trend: the return of the classic cocktail
Gavriel Jecan/Corbis Strange Paradise
Panama has pristine jungles, a nascent ecotourism industry—and the dark allure of a Graham Greene novel.
[Web only: Slideshow: "Panama’s Brooding History"]iGov
How geeks are opening up government on the Web
Books
Thomas Fuchs Globaloney
A new report from the country’s top intelligence office predicts a fundamental change in America’s foreign policy—but not the change Barack Obama has promised.
Brett Ryder Imperfect Union
A brilliant new book probes the intimate, unequal relationship between Virginia Woolf and the woman who cared for her.
Mercy!
Toni Morrison’s new historical novel is a monotonous series of flashbacks, larded with anachronisms.
Jim Young/Reuters/Corbis Cool Cat
Our new president has a feline’s legendary nimbleness and luck—but there are downsides to being a cat.
Columns
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScl/AURA) Lost In Space
Is Battlestar Galactica a great television epic—or proof that there is no such thing?
[Web only: Video: "Far Out"]End Times
Can America’s paper of record survive the death of newsprint? Can journalism?
Also in this issue
Jason Ford/Heart Agency What's Your Problem?
How to poison your guests, and other advice
Other articles in this issue
Quick Study
The mailbox monopoly; back to futures
Peter Arkle In a Word
Mind control-alt-delete; liminal laundry
