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Will It Ever End?

It could. A plan for Mideast peace.


 
 
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Rationalizing the Remains of 9/11
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Obama's Spy Surprise
 
 
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ECONOMY

Will they outgrow American financial institutions?

MIDEAST

Three recent books chart the winding path from Kermit Roosevelt with his suitcases stuffed with cash to George W. Bush's gloomy Nobel Prize prospects.

MILITARY

On gays, Obama's Joint Chiefs chair is caught between his boss and a conservative military.

RELIGION

The left can breathe easy. Rick Warren is not Obama's Billy Graham.

TERROR

What to do with what's left of the 9/11 hijackers?

IRAQ

It's too late to fix Iraq before the pullout date. All U.S. troops can do now is keep trying to slow the killing and get out. They call it 'Iraqi good enough.'

PROJECT GREEN

How hunters lead to 'evolution in reverse'

TELEVISION

No one on TV can be merely good or evil anymore. That's why we're suffering from Antihero Overload.

CULTURE

If you want rap music with a shelf life longer than milk, take a listen to Q-Tip's 'The Renaissance.'

MOVIES

'Notorious' revisits Biggie, and rap, in their primes.

HEALTH

A new study argues our personal choices cause more than 1 million premature deaths a year. What, if anything, should the government do to protect us from ourselves?

CULTURE

America should aim to export more serious forms of entertainment as well as 'Dark Knight' and 'Baywatch.'

CULTURE

America's true sartorial heritage is simplicity, not sloppiness. It's time to lose the fanny packs.

PHOTOS
Astonishing portraits of the nation's youth
NATIONAL AFFAIRS

The man appointed to fill Obama's Senate seat ignored a warning about a troubling case that almost allowed an innocent man to be executed.

 
TAKING OVER

Winning is half the battle. A history of bumpy transitions.

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open quoteThere is a 55–45 percent chance right now that disintegration will occur.close quote

Igor Panarin, dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's diplomat academy, predicting the demise of the United States by 2010

 
 
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MEDIA

Just a year after buying The Wall Street Journal, the press rapscallion has revitalized the fusty paper.

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