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The Iran card?
Anthony York, Max Garrone
The complex nation whose leader once called America "the Great Satan" -- and whose people cheer our soccer teams -- may play an increasingly important role in American strategic planning.
Move over “Heartland,” here comes “Homeland”
Leslie Savan
The name of the new Cabinet-level agency sounds old-fashioned and cozy, promising to bring back the life we fear we lost, but it also evokes less comforting images.
Chapter 34: Thursday, Dec. 21
Alfred Alcorn
In which an FBI agent visits Norman and tells him of Freddie Bain's very checkered past.
Our scary new best friends
Ken Silverstein
Afghanistan's Northern Alliance may be the enemy of our enemy, but it has its own grim history of violence and abuse of power.
Paul Harvey
Mike Thomas
He's been a radio icon since Limbaugh and Stern were in grade school. More than that, he is the finest huckster ever to roam the airwaves.
The Central Asian chess game
Steve Kettmann
If the United States goes to war in Afghanistan, it will need the cooperation of former Soviet republics.
Dispatches from Afghanistan
Douglas Cruickshank
Like Vietnam chronicler Michael Herr, Russian journalist Artyom Borovik captured the hallucinatory hell of war -- but these days it's Borovik's account of Afghanistan that seems the most relevant.
How big a war?
Anthony York
Hawk Paul Wolfowitz wants the U.S. to attack Iraq. Colin Powell doesn't -- and nobody knows who has Bush's ear.
Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar
Sean Kenny
The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here.
How the U.S. will fight
Anthony York, Damien Cave
A combination of special forces, lethal stealth, diplomacy and old-fashioned military power will be used to battle terrorists.
Shields up!
Damien Cave
A missile defense system couldn't have stopped the terrorist attacks, but so what? Star Wars is suddenly more popular than ever.
No more Lone Ranger
Steve Kettmann
European leaders like the internationalist Bush who has emerged from last week's terror attacks.
Good news, bad news
Max Garrone
Experts say that terrorists will probably strike again, soon, but that biological and chemical attacks are still unlikely.
South Asia is like the Middle East, except everyone has nuclear weapons
Anthony York, Max Garrone
The U.S. wants Pakistan to use its influence with the Taliban to hunt Osama bin Laden and his allies, but regional geopolitics will make that tricky.
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Inside the Durban debacle
Michael J. Jordan
By focusing the world on Israeli "apartheid" at the U.N. racism conference, well-organized Arab activists are trying to turn Israel into the South Africa of the 21st century.
The backward Bushies
Arianna Huffington
The White House has started a new arms race using old, Cold War logic.
“Single, With Complexes” and “Science, Semi-Science and Nonsense”
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Gavin McNett's review of two dating books and Suzy Hansen's interview with skeptic Michael Shermer.
Diana’s uncrowning glory
Jason Hill
Did Princess Diana's life (and its ending) sound the death knell for that most parasitic of institutions, the British monarchy?
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Gossipy verse from literature's ur-hearthrob and more of our favorite books.
Whisper of death
Michael McColly
Poverty, a rigid class system and conservative Hindu values are quickly turning India into the next South Africa in the global AIDS epidemic.
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The sexy stories and wise advice of 1940s Nigeria and more of our favorite new books.
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