The Washington Monthly - December 2003 Issue

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Departments:
Letters

*Who's Who

Tidbits & Outrages

Monthly Journalism Award

*Tilting at Windmills
Above it all...
Admiring Cher...
Drugless medics...
by Charles Peters

Political Books in Brief:
Embed Cred
Nicholas Kulish reviews Bill Katovsky's Embedded.

Oh Little Town
Barbara Demick reviews Joshua Hammer's A Season in Bethlehem.

December 2003
* Items marked with red asterisks are available online.

Cover story:
* Meet the Press
How James Glassman reinvented journalism -- as lobbying.
by Nicholas Confessore

Features:
*A Time to Choose
How Democrats started losing the abortion debate.
by Amy Sullivan

*In the Tank
The intellectual decline of AEI.
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells

*Armchair Provocateur
Reading Laurie Mylroie, the Neocons' favorite conspiracy theorist.
by Peter Bergen

*The Good Spy
How the quashing of an honest investigator led to 40 years of JFK conspiracy theories.
by Jefferson Morley

Baath House
Cleaning out the Iraqi embassy.
by Eric Pfeiffer

Monster Truck Rally
The "activists" who defend the SUV.
by Zachary Roth

Tournament of Poses
Why Congress wants to pick college bowl winners.
by Brent Kendall

On Political Books:
*From Here to Eternity
The unintended consequences of war.
by Jon Meacham

*James's Addiction
Carville can't stop giving the Democrats good advice.
by Jamie Malanowski

Gubernatorial Goldrush
Why the Terminator is no Gipper.
by Jonathan Rowe

Money Talks
Robert Rubin remembers Clintonomics.
by Stephen Mufson

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