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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT Coalition of the Waiting The U.S.-European alliance is not on its last legs— and when Bush goes, it could emerge stronger than ever by Jonathan Rauch FIRST PRINCIPLES Ordinary People A remarkable celebration of unremarkable lives deflates pat social theories of both the right and the left by Clive Crook FOREIGN AFFAIRS Containment Strategy Iran. North Korea. Uganda? Why the Pentagon ranks Africa’s AIDS crisis as a leading security threat by Stephan Faris THE FUTURE Election Day 2008 A letter from Florida by Christopher Buckley POLL Pakistan: Ally or Adversary? The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about Pakistan and its president, Pervez Musharraf THE WORLD IN NUMBERS Iran: A Minority Report Mapping the rise of discontent by Graeme Wood Primary Sources Afghan schools under attack; the perils of stock-tip spam; marriage as a matter of life and death; Vietnamese astrology gets it right  They Made America Who are the most influential figures in American history? The Atlantic recently asked ten eminent historians. The result was The Atlantic’s Top 100—and some insight into the nature of influence and the contingency of history. Was Walt Disney really more influential than Elizabeth Cady Stanton? Benjamin Spock than Richard Nixon? Elvis Presley than Lewis and Clark? John D. Rockefeller than Bill Gates? Babe Ruth than Frank Lloyd Wright? Let the debates begin. by Ross Douthat How to Get a Nuclear Bomb It wouldn’t be easy. But it wouldn’t be impossible. A reporter travels the world to find the weaknesses a terrorist could exploit by William Langewiesche Postcards From Tomorrow Square Our man in Shanghai samples budget beer, survives subway scrimmages, and starts living the contradictions of China’s breakneck modernization by James Fallows Striking a Pose Fifty years ago, yoga was the province of California communes and fringy New Agers. Now it’s teetering on the brink of overexposure and commodification. So, is it a spiritual antidote to the upscale Western lifestyle, or just the latest manifestation? by Hanna Rosin INTERVIEWS Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC American Icons This is the eleventh in a series of archival excerpts in honor of the magazine's 150th anniversary. This installment is introduced by Mark Bowden, an Atlantic national correspondent. POETRY Five Household Statues of Buddha by Dick Allen POETRY On Being Fifty-Something by Debora Greger  EDITOR’S CHOICE Walt's World Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler by Benjamin Schwarz Books of the Year Selected by The Atlantic’s literary editor, Benjamin Schwarz ROUNDUP Books in BriefOf Sex and Marriage Stop it, you’re killing my libido by Cristina Nehring True North A career-spanning anthology reveals again why Alice Munro is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years by Mona Simpson New Fiction The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro by Deborah Eisenberg NEW FICTION Out of Character On Richard Ford’s latest by Joseph O'Neill Rich Man’s Burden The steely resolve of Andrew Carnegie by Christopher Hitchens CURRENT AFFAIRS Cover to Cover A guide to additional releases by Benjamin Healy  TRAVELS In Hot Water Midwinter pool hopping in Iceland by Wayne Curtis FOOD Dumbing Down Wine Chain stores threaten to destroy independent wineshops— and your chances of finding interesting wine by Corby Kummer CULTURE AND COMMERCE In Praise of Chain Stores They aren’t destroying local flavor—they’re providing variety and comfort by Virginia Postrel TECHNOLOGY Microsoft Reboots A preview of the new versions of Windows and Office by James Fallows CONTENT Get Me Rewrite! A modest proposal for reinventing newspapers for the digital age by Michael Hirschorn POST MORTEM She Said What She Thought Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006) by Mark Steyn THE PUZZLER Minding Your P's and Q'sWord Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff |
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