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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT Divided We Stand Republicans and Democrats should be careful what they wish for by Jonathan Rauch BRIEF LIVES The X Factor Americans probably care less about Teresa Heinz Kerry's outspokenness than about her exoticism. The question is what they think of it by Michelle Cottle THE LIST Search Terms that Sell by Nathan Littlefield THE LAW Suspended Sentencing The consequences of "the single most irresponsible decision in the modern history of the Supreme Court" by Benjamin Wittes THE ART OF POLICY "To Hell With Lipitor!" Medicare reform—an explanation by P. J. O'Rourke NATIONAL SECURITY Tick, Tick, Tick Pakistan is a nuclear time bomb—perhaps the greatest threat to American security today. Here's how to defuse it by Graham Allison THE ODDS Arnoldus Pontifex? by Elizabeth Shelburne Primary Sources How gay marriage could reduce the federal deficit; what your eleven-year-old has in common with presidential debaters; Cuba's looming chaos THE WORLD IN NUMBERS Calling All Nations by Nathan Littlefield  Bush's Lost Year By deciding to invade Iraq, the Bush Administration decided not to do many other things: not to reconstruct Afghanistan, not to deal with the threats posed by North Korea and Iran, and not to wage an effective war on terror. An inventory of opportunities lost by James Fallows The Long Hunt for Osama Where has he been? How did we ever let him get away? Our correspondent—one of the few Western journalists ever to have met Osama bin Laden—traces the al-Qaeda leader's footsteps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and describes the sometimes hapless American pursuit by Peter Bergen If Memory Doesn't Serve Sarah Jessica Parker or Sarah Michelle Gellar? Ashanti or Beyoncé? All will come clear on the Day of Reckoning by Ian Frazier The Crusader Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York, has risen to national prominence by emulating Teddy Roosevelt and fearlessly taking on powerful interests. His aggressiveness has made him a lot of enemies—but it may propel him to the governor's mansion and beyond by Sridhar Pappu COLLEGE ADMISSIONS 2004 The Big Picture Our annual survey of the admissions landscape uncovered recent and upcoming changes to the process, growing concern about tuition increases, and serious questions about whether colleges are fulfilling their mission by James Fallows & V. V. Ganeshananthan COLLEGE ADMISSIONS 2004 Who Needs Harvard? The pressure on smart kids to get into top schools has never been higher. But the differences between these schools and the next tier down have never been smaller by Gregg Easterbrook INTERVIEWS Crying in the Kitchen Over PrincetonCOLLEGE ADMISSIONS 2004 Measure by Measure A new effort to determine how well schools teach by Jay Mathews COLLEGE ADMISSIONS 2004 Independent Counsel For private admissions consultants business is booming. But is their expensive expertise worth the cost? by Nicholas Confessore COLLEGE ADMISSIONS 2004 The Third Way Liberal arts or a professional education? More and more students are choosing to combine elements of both. A leading proponent describes the emerging trend he calls "practice-oriented education" by Richard M. Freeland FICTION Florence of Arabia (Part II) One woman's crusade to bring female emancipation to the Middle East. A short story by Christopher Buckley Leak A drawing by Guy Billout POETRY Progress [with audio] by Leonard Cochran POETRY Praise [with audio] by Laurie Lamon POETRY Bamboo [with audio] by David Solway  EDITOR'S CHOICE The Glass of Fashion What to read this month—and what not to by Benjamin Schwarz A Gloom of One's Own Demanding women with demanding lives, and the men who love them by Sandra Tsing Loh No Way, Madame Bovary A new but not improved translation by Clive James READING LIST Rote From Underground Progressive books that—like Michael Moore—(ought to) make progressives wince by Marc Cooper NEW FICTION The Real Thing Joseph O'Neill reviews William Trevor's short story collection A Bit on the Side. by Joseph O'Neill Mind the Gap Turkey is everyone's idea of a "successful" modern Muslim state. A new novel will make you think twice by Christopher Hitchens  INNOCENT BYSTANDER Never Mind Old science doesn't die ... by Cullen Murphy A LOOK BACK 125 Years Ago in The Atlantic The flight of jobs overseas is a hot-button issue in the 2004 election. But the problem is by no means new. As this October 1879 editorial by William Vaughn Moody makes clear, concerns about losing jobs to developing nations have been with us for a long time. FOOD Good-bye, Cryovac Imagine college food for which students will fake IDs, write rap songs, and line up outside the dining-hall door by Corby Kummer THE PUZZLER Cryptic Journey by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM The Twentieth-Century Darwin Francis Crick (1916-2004) by Mark Steyn Proper-Name Index by Benjamin Healy |
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