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CalendarLetters to the Editor  The Nuclear Power Beside Iraq Now that Iran unquestionably intends to build a nuclear bomb, the international community has few options to stop it—and the worst option would be a military strike by James Fallows PHOTO OP The Remains of the Bay photograph by Stephen Voss WASHINGTON The Numbers War In Washington, measuring the changing size of the Iraqi insurgency has become the battle to watch by Joshua Green POLL Who Has Bush's Ear? The Atlantic recently asked members of Congress about their perceptions of influence in the White House FIRST PRINCIPLES The Benefits of Brutality Why America's immigration outlook—current grumblings notwithstanding—remains so much healthier than Europe's by Clive Crook BRIEF LIVES The Man With the Golden Phone Before Mark Warner was a politician, he was a wildly successful entrepreneur—and his success as a huckster shows why he may be a formidable challenger for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination by Paul Starobin CROSS-EXAMINATION Marital Differences The national divide over gay marriage is a recipe for legal confusion—but we should learn to live with it by Benjamin Wittes THE WORLD IN NUMBERS The Web Police Internet censorship is prevalent throughout the world. Can the Web be tamed? by Matthew Quirk Primary Sources Diagnosis at a distance; why private school might not be worth it; Pretty Boy Floyd as statistical outlier; the upside of global warming  The Desert One Debacle In April 1980, President Jimmy Carter sent the Army’s Delta Force to bring back fifty-three American citizens held hostage in Iran. Everything went wrong. The fireball in the Iranian desert took the Carter presidency with it. [Enhanced for online viewing, with audio, video, photos, maps, and more.] by Mark Bowden Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas In the mountains of strife-torn Nepal, some lessons about modern warfare from a British throwback by Robert D. Kaplan Horsemen of the Esophagus Among the super-gluttons, on the front lines of competitive eating by Jason Fagone The Talented Mr. Chávez A Castro-loving, Bolivar-worshipping, onetime baseball-player wannabe, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez is perhaps the world’s most openly anti-American head of state. With Latin America in the midst of a leftward swing, how dangerous is he? by Franklin Foer 150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC Nature & Environment This is the fourth in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine's 150th anniversary. This installment is introduced by Bill McKibben, the author of The End of Nature, Wandering Home and the forthcoming Deep Economy. POETRY Bambino Sutra [with audio] by David Barber Telephone Surveillance Permission Form Humor by Bruce McCall  EDITOR’S CHOICE Modernism, Minimalism, Fundamentalism Glenn Murcutt: buildings + projects 1962-2003, by Francoise Fromonot; Hariri & Hariri Houses, by Gisui Hariri and Mojgan Hariri; The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, by Amy Hempel; Fundamentalism and American Culture, by George M. Marsden by Benjamin Schwarz Rhymes With Rich One woman’s conscientious objection to the “mommy wars” by Sandra Tsing Loh New Fiction Everyman, by Philip Roth by Joseph O’Neill Exodus The ominous push and pull of the U.S.–Mexico border by Marc Cooper New Fiction The Whole World Over, by Julia Glass by Elizabeth Judd NEW FICTION A Close Read Luck, by Joan Barfoot by Christina Schwarz Blood for No Oil! A new manifesto finds a model in the Truman era for returning liberals to political centrality in America. But the comparison is hopelessly inexact by Christopher Hitchens INTERVIEWS Beinart Talks BackFURTHER READING Wars on Terrorism by Bruce Hoffman Cover to Cover A guide to additional releases by Benjamin Schwarz and Benjamin Healy  TRAVELS The Father of the Pina Colada? Visitors to Barbados can see where George Washington slept—really by Wayne Curtis FOOD Madrid Fusion The pleasures and perils of the Spanish gastronomic avant-garde by Corby Kummer TECHNOLOGY Tinfoil Underwear Tools to protect your privacy on the Internet go just so far, and the businesses that dominate it have no incentive to let them go any farther by James Fallows SPORTS Passing Grades Scouting is state-of-the-art, yet judging which NFL players will pan out remains a gamble. Maybe they’re not the ones who should be studied by Allen Barra THE PUZZLER Peace of the PuzzleWord Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM He Made the Refrains Run on Time Romano Mussolini (1927–2006) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month’s issue Compiled by Benjamin Healy |
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