April 2003
* Items marked with red asterisks are available online.
Cover story:
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Practice to Deceive
Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan.
by Joshua Micah Marshall
Features:
Memo to Dick Gephardt
Re: Becoming More Jewish
by Steve Waldman
*Homeland Security is for Girls
When it comes to worrying about terrorism, men are from Mars and women are from Venus.
by Garance Franke-Ruta
Bragging Writes
How presidential candidates try to impress reporters with their reading lists.
by Brent Kendall
*The Health of Nations
Instead of forcing seniors into HMOs, how about forcing them to exercise?
by Phillip J. Longman
Plane Threat
Terrorists have never shot down an American passenger jet with surface-to-air missiles. But it's only a matter of time.
by Soyoung Ho
Castro's Casting Couch
In Hollywood's love affair with Fidel, who's using whom?
by Damien Cave
On Political Books:
*Rebels With Applause
How stand-up political comedy stopped being subversive.
by Matthew Cooper
*Falls of Justice
What happens when a biographer attacks his subject--and gets his facts wrong?
by Charles Lane
Red Scare
Fifty years after his death, Stalin's crimes are still morally shocking--and politically vexing.
by Bruce Clark
Post-Ghetto Fabulous
Coming to grips with black women's success.
by Debra J. Dickerson
Remission of Gin
What 18th-century London can teach us about fighting vice.
by Justin Peters
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