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“Assassination” by Miles Hudson
Matthew DeBord
A historian coolly assesses whether killing a leader is a useful political tactic.
Guilty as charged
Jeffrey Tayler
Russian oligarchs are being harassed and jailed in a crackdown that's raising eyebrows in the West. But most Russians thinks they're guilty -- just like everybody else.
Tummy talk
Susan Hack
Belly dancing is deemed pornographic by Egyptians, but more foreign women are taking up the art.
The cry that came in from the cold
Steve Kimian
Will a new measure adopted by the Putin administration change who profits from Russia's lucrative baby-selling business?
Greenspan goes to Burning Man?
Katharine Mieszkowski
Real-time market data comes to the playa this year, with the Stock Market Puppets.
The queer world of the X-Men
Erik Dussere
OK, Wolverine never built a shrine to Judy Garland, but "the strangest teens" were obviously homo superior -- emphasis on the homo.
Gore and Bush and Vietnam
Anthony York, Kerry Lauerman
Guess which fortunate son claims to have never felt "more alive," while the other flew an obsolete plane back at home?
The science of invention
Mark Wallace
Can a theory cooked up by a Soviet labor camp survivor solve today's thorniest engineering problems -- and make the world a better place?
Space invaders
Martha Ackmann
Bounced from astronaut training because of their gender, the Mercury 13 get no respect.
Al Gore’s missile-defense dodge
David Horowitz
The vice president cares more about reassuring the Russians than protecting Americans, and that's why George W. Bush should be president.
Immune from prosecution
Ian Williams
U.S. diplomats are wrecking the chance to bring future Saddam Husseins to justice -- all for the sake of domestic politics.
The gay Nabokov
Lev Grossman
The novelist never could face the secret that cost his brother his life.
Civil war in Miami?
John Lantigua
The battle over Elian has led non-Cubans to threaten secession, and to back a recall drive against the mayor.
“Buddha's Little Finger” by Victor Pelevin
Craig Offman
In a novel by turns shabby, sexy and visionary, the Russian virtuoso captures post-perestroika Moscow in all its weirdness.
Our Nazi allies
Ken Silverstein
A German amateur investigator finds information on the U.S. government's friendly dealings with war criminals. Meanwhile, the FBI and CIA guard their records.
Silencing Joseph Stiglitz
David Moberg
The World Bank cuts its ties to the economist who became an unlikely hero to world trade protesters.
The sensitive Bond
Emily Jenkins
Even as a preteen girl, I knew that Ian Fleming's James Bond was a vulnerable guy -- and his creator, an equal-opportunity voyeur.
Gore beats Bush to McCain
Alicia Montgomery
Bush should still get McCain's nod despite doubts. Gore scorns rival's record and Republicans wring their hands over Rudy.
More spilled spaghetti
Laura Miller
Aleksandar Hemon, author of "The Question of Bruno," talks about his favorite spies and the need for messiness in American fiction.
The Dixie Chicks, TV Guide and me
Sarah Vowell
America's favorite weirdly schizophrenic magazine comes bound in leather in swanky hotel rooms.
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