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*Tilting at Windmills
Pulling out...
Tabling the problem...
Promoting the messenger...
Taken for granted...
by Charles Peters

Political Books in Brief:
Bork Chop
Stephen Pomper reviews Robert H. Bork's Coercing Virtue.

Hidden Assets
Matthew Dallek reviews Robert H. Jackson's That Man.

November 2003
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Cover story:
* The Next Swing Voter
For over two decades, the bond between the GOP and the U.S. military has been getting stronger. Since the invasion of Iraq, that may be changing.
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Features:
The Weakest Link
Why the Bush administration insists against all evidence to the contrary on an Iraq-al Qaeda connection.
by Spencer Ackerman

*America's Virtual Empire
U.S. soldiers are great warriors, but unwilling imperial guards. If we want to secure our interests, we must draw on other sources of power.
by Gen. Wesley Clark

*The Running Men
How candidates decide to run for president reveals how prepared they are to win.
by Walter Shapiro

Radio Free D.C.
News, traffic, weather, whiny bureaucrats.
by Brian Montopoli

Spinning Hurricane Isabel
The ideological significance of fallen trees.
by Sandy Bergo

On Political Books:
*Franklin, my dear...
The limits of political friendship.
by Bruce Clark

*Sad Little Rich Country
While American life is getting better, we aren't getting happier.
by David Wessel

Kill Bill
The relentless effort to blame 9/11 on President Clinton.
by Jamie Malanowski


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