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SAGE, INK Plan of Attack Because He Could Cartoons by Sage Stossel. POLITICS & PROSE Bush's Monica Moment Clinton's affair with Monica called his character into question; Bush's true colors emerged on 9/11. By Jack Beatty. INTERVIEWS Edwidge Danticat: Grappling With Haiti's Beasts Edwidge Danticat talks about reconnecting with her homeland—and coming to terms with its legacy of violence—through fiction. FLASHBACKS The Paradoxical Case of Tony Blair Articles from 1996 to the present chronicle Tony Blair's career, from his meteoric ascent to his fall from favor. INTERVIEWS Robert D. Kaplan: In the Line of Fire Journalist Robert D. Kaplan joined U.S. Marines as they stormed Fallujah, and returned to share his impressions. INTERVIEWS Robert Olen Butler: Faraway Voices Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler talks about tapping into different points of view and writing "from the place where you dream." INTERVIEWS David Bezmozgis: From Toronto With Love David Bezmozgis on his sudden literary success and his first collection of stories, a wry and intimate portrait of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family. INTERVIEWS Niall Ferguson: Our Imperial Imperative Niall Ferguson, the author of Colossus, laments the emasculation of American imperialism. INTERVIEWS Brian Greene: The Universe Made Simple Brian Greene, the author of The Fabric of the Cosmos, on opening readers' eyes to the hidden forces that govern our world. POLITICS & PROSE History's Fools In the wake of Iraq, the term "neo-conservative" may come to mean "dangerous innocence about world realities." By Jack Beatty. FLASHBACKS Looking Back at Brown v. Board of Education Articles from 1954 and 1960 offer a look at how the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation ruling was initially received. INTERVIEWS Where Did He Go Wrong?: An Interview with Geoffrey Wheatcroft Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the author of "The Tragedy of Tony Blair," examines the British Prime Minister's dramatic downward spiral. INTERVIEWS Dennis Lehane: Hookers, Guns, and Money Dennis Lehane talks about Mystic River, Hollywood, and "fiction of mortal event." INTERVIEWS Bernard Lewis: Islam's Interpreter Bernard Lewis talks about his seventy years spent studying the Middle East—and his thoughts on the region's future. FLASHBACKS Transcripts of a Troubled Mind The short, sad life of Breece D'J Pancake, whose writings in The Atlantic brought to life the dissipated Appalachian world in which he was raised. INTERVIEWS Jonathan Rauch: A Modest (Marriage) Proposal Jonathan Rauch talks about his quest to establish a middle ground in the gay-marriage debate. POLITICS & PROSE The Party of the People The Republicans, unlike the Democrats, have delivered what their constituency wants. By Jack Beatty. INTERVIEWS Scott Stossel: The Call to Service Scott Stossel, the author of Sarge, talks about the life and legacy of Sargent Shriver. INTERVIEWS Paul Maslin: Inside the Dean Campaign Howard Dean's political pollster talks about the campaign's extraordinary rise and crashing fall. FLASHBACKS Faster, Stronger, Smarter... Articles from 1912 to the present consider how far we should go to refine humanity through science. INTERVIEWS The Scourge of Agriculture: An Interview with Richard Manning Richard Manning argues that looking back to what "nature has already imagined" could be the solution for a world ravaged by farming. INTERVIEWS Paul Theroux: The Perpetual Stranger Paul Theroux talks about writing and traveling—and the liberation that both provide. INTERVIEWS Benny Morris: The Lonely Historian Benny Morris discusses the new version of his famously controversial book, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, which has left him alienated from both the left and the right. POLITICS & PROSE The Faith-Based Presidency You can question Bush's veracity, his grip on reality, and the rationality of his policies, but not his faith. By Jack Beatty. FLASHBACKS Drama in the Court! Articles from 1898 to the present consider what's at stake when high-profile court cases play out in the public eye. INTERVIEWS Jeffrey Rosen: The Softer Side of Ashcroft Jeffrey Rosen argues that it is not social conservatism but a quest for popular approval that drives John Ashcroft's public life. INTERVIEWS The Thoughtful Soldier: An Interview With Douglas Brinkley Douglas Brinkley, the author of Tour of Duty, on John Kerry's conflicted but heroic service in Vietnam. WRITING CONTEST Rewrite Shakespeare Read the winning entries, selected by the Princeton Review. A sidebar to "Would Shakespeare Get Into Swarthmore?" in the March issue. FLASHBACKS Money Into the Void Is the exorbitant expense of space exploration worth it? Articles from 1895 to the present consider the merits. INTERVIEWS Debra Dickerson: Getting Over Race Debra Dickerson, the author of The End of Blackness, on why she thinks the African-American community needs to "grow up." POLITICS & PROSE Free Trade vs. Good Jobs What led America's early leaders to break the law of free trade? Should we break it again? By Jack Beatty. INTERVIEWS Caitlin Flanagan: The Mother's Dilemma Caitlin Flanagan on parenting, home life, and the morally troubling nature of the mother-nanny relationship. INTERVIEWS Christopher Browning: An Insidious Evil Christopher Browning, the author of The Origins of the Final Solution, explains how ordinary Germans came to accept as inevitable the extermination of the Jews. INTERVIEWS Matthew Miller: Let's Make a Deal Matthew Miller, the author of The Two Percent Solution, talks about the promise of the political center and the life we might find there. For more from The Atlantic's online journal, see the Atlantic Unbound archive. |
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"If we doubted Clinton's character, we were reassured by his intelligence and command of the scene. Bush lacks these compensations. His vaunted 'moral clarity' is as much strut as conviction. He achieves certainty by arresting thought." |
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 Blind Into Baghdadby James Fallows The U.S. occupation of Iraq is a debacle because a vast amount of expert planning was willfully ignored. Spies, Lies, and Weapons:
What Went Wrongby Kenneth M. Pollack A detailed account of why we were so far off in our estimates of Saddam's weapons programs. The Fifty-first State?by James Fallows Are we ready for a long-term relationship with Iraq? |
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When George Meets John How will Bush and Kerry fare upon being pitted against one another in the upcoming campaign debates? Sontag vs. Kael How do Pauline Kael and Susan Sontag compare? Sharpton's Quixotic Campaign Is "leader of black America" still a necessary position in contemporary politics? See the complete forum index. |
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Changing Mindsets and Fortunes in the Poorest Nations
"To potential investors and aid agencies, the stirrings of hope say: Don't stop now. And to the people of any number of nations willing to give it a try, the tentative signs of progress say: It can be done." By Barbara Crossette. |
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Media: Sasquatch for President
The beauty of Bigfoot is that we know so little about him—unlike our overcovered presidential candidates. By William Powers. Social Studies: Reagan Missed Greatness, But He Nailed Rightness Ronald Reagan cared about only a few important things: beating Communism, cutting taxes, bolstering defense. And he got those right. By Jonathan Rauch. Political Pulse: Burying the Hatchet The Iraq debate has made life more difficult for governments on both sides of the Atlantic. By William Schneider. Legal Affairs: The Torture Memos: The Case of the Gradually Disappearing Supreme Court Could the battles over Supreme Court nominations become so acrimonious that it becomes impossible for anyone to win Senate confirmation? By Stuart Taylor Jr. Media: Missing a Beat Political reporters always had a hard time getting a handle on Ronald Reagan's charisma. By William Powers. Legal Affairs: The Torture Memos: Putting the President Above the Law Little did the Framers suspect that their Constitution would be twisted by a president to claim powers more appropriate to Roman emperors, Russian czars, King George III. By Stuart Taylor Jr. Political Pulse: Leaving His Mark Ronald Reagan's legacy belongs to the whole country, not just one political party. By William Schneider. Wealth of Nations: Reagan Defeated Communism. Washington Was More of a Challenge. Ronald Reagan sped the birth of a new world order, but he failed to change what he wanted to change the most: the scale and reach of the federal government. By Clive Crook. More from National Journal. |
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145 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC The Stereoscope and the Stereograph (June 1859) "Form is henceforth divorced from matter. Give us a few negatives of a thing, and that is all we want of it." In 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes famously proclaimed that our relationship to art and the world around us had been forever altered. 45 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC American Planes: The Lessons of History (June 1959) "Some clear and not too pleasant lessons are to be learned from a reflective perusal of the more than half century in which we have developed our air travel." In 1959 an aircraft engineer criticized the slow pace of progress in aviation. 25 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC The Nuclear Age (June 1979) "Nobody wanted to pray, but each of us blessed the bomb without guilt, and Sarah chanted, 'Fission, fusion, critical mass.'" A short story by Tim O'Brien. Reagan in Retrospect "'Reagan ... restored a belief that an extraordinary, but mortal, person can give leadership and a sense of direction to the American national government.'" In 1987 William Schneider assessed Ronald Reagan's impact on American politics. D-Day Remembered "Follow along with Able and Baker companies. Their story is lifted from my fading Normandy notebook, which covers the landing of every Omaha company." In 1960 a combat historian recalled the horrors of Omaha beach on D-Day. 35 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC The Right of Abortion (June 1969) "We continue to maintain strict antiabortion laws on the books, denying freedom of choice to women and physicians and compelling the 'unwilling to bear the unwanted.'" In 1969 a Manhattan lawyer argued in favor of abortion rights. The Day After Tomorrow? "We could go back to ice-age temperatures within a decade, triggered by our current global-warming trend." In 1998 William H. Calvin argued that global warming could lead to an abrupt cooling that would threaten human survival. Perennial Oil Worries "Unless we exercise foresight, events will thrust us into a crisis that will lead to a substantial erosion of our domestic oil supply and give Middle Eastern suppliers dangerous leverage over our transportation system." In 1972 Stewart Udall issued a prescient warning. 5 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC Napoleon in Rags (May 1999) "There was no rock style of the late sixties or early seventies that Dylan didn't touch in some way, no matter how alien its aesthetic might have seemed to him." In 1999, Francis Davis considered Bob Dylan's influence on today's music scene. 2004 RUTH LILLY POETRY PRIZE This week Kay Ryan was awarded the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Read and listen to four of Ryan's poems that originally appeared in The Atlantic: "Hailstorm" (2003), "Among English Verbs" (1998), "This Life" (1993), and "Emptiness" (1993). The Gay-Marriage Experiment "The only way to find out what would happen if same-sex couples got marriage certificates is to let some of us do it." In the April, 2004, Atlantic Jonathan Rauch argued in favor of letting each state decide the gay-marriage question for itself. 100 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC The Diplomatic Contest for the Mississippi Valley (May 1904) "The Louisiana Purchase was the turning-point in the events that fixed our position as the arbiter of the New World." In 1904, Frederick J. Turner traced the early years of America's westward expansion. The Murder of Emmett Till The Justice Department has announced that it will reopen the investigation into Emmett Till's murder, fifty years ago. In 2001, The Atlantic ran Studs Terkel's interview with Mamie Mobley, Till's mother, in which she talked about seeing her son's body for the first time. 40 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC The Mad Strangler of Boston (May 1964) "But the victims... submitted to murder as meekly as though they had been hypnotized and told the fatal stocking being placed around their necks was actually a pearl necklace." Perry Mason creator Erle Stanley Gardner on the case of the Boston Strangler. 120 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC The Red Sunsets (April 1884) "When this volcanic dust ceases to glorify our skies at dawn and eve, we shall part with the most remarkable and picturesque accident to the earth's physical life that has been known." An 1884 article linked "strange heavens" worldwide to the Krakatoa eruption. 15 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC Afghanistan Post Mortem (April 1989) "Afghanistan may evoke the military past, but its importance is as a preview of the battleground of the future." From 1989, Robert Kaplan's unsettling lessons from ten years of Soviet-Afghan war. 45 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC The Sacrificial Egg (April 1959) "Someone oppressed by misfortune had brought the offering to the crossroads in the dusk. And he had stepped on it and taken the sufferer's ill luck to himself." From 1959, Chinua Achebe's first short story published in the United States. Bystanders to Genocide The first massacres of the Rwandan genocide began ten years ago this week. In 2001, Samantha Power examined the "countless missed opportunities" by the Clinton Administration to "mitigate a colossal crime." 25 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC Iraq (April 1979) "The visual contrasts in Iraq are jarring: on the one hand, traces of Babylon, Assyria, and Sumeria; on the other, the most advanced plutonium breeder reactor." In 1979, Claudia Wright profiled Iraq as an emergent power in the Middle East. Peter Ustinov's Albanian Travelogue "In this kind of country, inadvertent ironies keep coming out of left field." In 1966 the actor and playwright Peter Ustinov traveled to Albania and, in this wry commentary, conveyed his impressions of the country. 40 YEARS AGO IN THE ATLANTIC What Happened to Women's Rights? (March 1964) "The one 'right' which women have always had, frequently scorned, never fought for, is the one to which they now rush in fevered haste, the right to get married." In 1964 Paul Foley lamented the stagnation of the women's movement. More Flashbacks from The Atlantic. Browse back issues and highlights from The Atlantic's history.
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