D.C. DISPATCH

Media: The Clean and the Dirty New!
L.A. can surprise. Behind the dead gaze of laid-back indifference, the city has a fussiness all its own. And what really matters about the native fastidiousness is what it's covering up. By William Powers

Social Studies: Is There an Excuse for George Nethercutt? New!
Nethercutt and his Republican colleagues in Congress have become the beast that they promised to slay. By Jonathan Rauch

Political Pulse: Al Gore's Challenges New!
In Philadelphia, the GOP staged the most nonpolitical political convention in history. By William Schneider

More from National Journal.

Election 2000
Who should be the next President of the United States? What are the issues that will decide the race? As the Democrats gather in Los Angeles, join the conversation in this special conference.

Napster and the Battle Over Copyright
Is the Napster decision a major victory for the recording industry? Or has the battle over copyright on the Internet only just begun?

To Test or Not to Test...
Should statewide assessment tests be imposed on schools without input from teachers and parents? Share your views on Peter Schrag's August article, "High Stakes Are for Tomatoes."

UNBOUND FLASHBACK
Roundtable: Does Clinton Matter? New!
How long a shadow is Bill Clinton casting over the 2000 election? Last January, Atlantic Unbound invited The Atlantic's Jack Beatty, David Brooks of The Weekly Standard, David Corn of The Nation, and the historian Sean Wilentz of Princeton University to take up the question of the Clinton legacy.

INTERVIEWS
Inside the Jihad Aug 9
Ahmed Rashid, the Pakistani journalist and author of Taliban, shares insights he has gained from years of unparalleled access to Afghanistan and its radical Taliban movement.

POLITICS & PROSE
The Legacy Haunting Gore Aug 9
Trade, not scandal, Jack Beatty argues, is the legacy of the Clinton years that could cost Gore the election.

FLASHBACKS
A Republic -- If We Can Keep It Aug 9
"In effect," Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote in the July, 1998, Atlantic, referring to the campaign-finance scandals of the 1996 election, "what the law permitted in 1996 was as outrageous as any crime that was committed."

R e c e n t l y . . .

SAGE, INK
Compassionate Conservatives Aug 3
Senior Partner Jul 26
Cartoons by Sage Stossel.

FALLOWS@LARGE
Election 2000 Time Capsule Aug 3
George W. Bush's nightmare, James Fallows writes, is a "gloves-off grudge match between Daddy and Bill Clinton." This and more in the August installment, as Fallows tracks the conventional wisdom.

WEB CITATIONS
Pseudo Politics Aug 2
Live from the sky box at the GOP Convention in Philadelphia.

INTERVIEWS
An African Voice Aug 2
His 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart, marked a turning point for modern African literature. In his new book, Home and Exile, Chinua Achebe sees postcolonial cultures taking shape story by story.
Plus: "The Sacrificial Egg," Achebe's first short story published in the United States, from the April, 1959, issue of The Atlantic.

ATLANTIC ABROAD
Snowed-in in Shangri-La Aug 2
"An indefinite stay at an isolated, cold, blizzard-lashed monastery, or a blood-curdling descent down the mountain with a drunk driver?" A traveler's tale from central China, by Mike Meyer.

POLITICS & PROSE
The Issues That Aren't Jul 26
Where does George W. Bush stand on Microsoft? Where does Al Gore stand on Kosovo? On Big Tobacco? You don't know? You're not alone, writes Christopher Caldwell.

CORBY'S TABLE
The Chowder King Jul 26
Corby Kummer on Jasper White's 50 Chowders, the latest from Boston's master seafood chef.

WEB CITATIONS
Nothing to Fear Jul 19
Sage Stossel looks at befearless.com, Oxygen Media's not-so-courageous venture into online politics.

INTERVIEWS
In the Name of the Homeland Jul 19
Julia Alvarez, the Dominican-born novelist and poet, talks about her new historical novel, In the Name of Salomé, and about her need to write the stories that are hardest to tell.

UNBOUND FICTION
Bienvenue à Dilbrith College, Marie-Claire Tremblay!! Jul 19
"Marie-Claire is scheduled to arrive on the three o'clock train. And would Abélard himself not have relinquished his philosophical pursuits in order to accommodate his immaculate Héloïse?" A short story by Simon Fanning.

POLITICS & PROSE
The Democratic Difference Jul 13
Ralph Nader says the Republican and Democratic parties are indistinguishable. Jack Beatty looks at the record on labor, "the issue our era will be measured by," and sees quite another reality.

CROSSCURRENTS
Geek Studies Jul 13
Hackers, freaks, outsiders, Homo Superior? Call them what you will, geeks are everywhere, and their stories help explain how science is shaping us. Harvey Blume on the emerging corpus of "geek studies."

ATLANTIC ABROAD
India's Road Cool Jul 7
Mike Youngblood, on a quest to earn a driver's license in India, discovers the secret behind Indian drivers' "irrepressible good cheer."

April 6, 2000
Roundtable: Does Humanitarian Intervention Have a Future?; Executive Decision: The Death Penalty -- Mend It or End It?; James Fallows: The Fascination of What's "Obvious"; Christopher Caldwell: The Uses of Sprawl; Jack Beatty: Be Afraid; Nicholas Confessore: Sucking Sounds on the Web; Flashbacks: The Intervention Question.

January 26, 2000
Roundtable: Does Clinton Matter?; Executive Decision: Is It Time to Confront Russia?; Christopher Caldwell: The Electorate Bobby Built; Charles Davis: Sidewalk Economics; Wen Stephenson: DigitalDivide.com; Flashbacks: The Clinton Era; Republicans and Abortion.

I n A u g u s t . . .

William Langewiesche on India's shipbreakers;

Valerie Martin's Saint Francis;

Web only: Hear a recording of "The Canticle of the Creatures," a song composed by Saint Francis, with an introduction by Valerie Martin;

Michael Joseph Gross on the gay-Garland connection;

Harold Meyerson on Michael Harrington, the (still) relevant socialist;

Peter Schrag on the backlash against testing;

Jonathan G. S. Koppell on the problem with "cyberspace";

Web only: An interview with Phoebe-Lou Adams, whose last column appears in this issue, and a sampling of five decades of her Brief Reviews;

and much more.

Browse back issues and search The Atlantic's online archive.

The September Atlantic will appear online on Thursday, August 17.

A Visionary Poet at Ninety Aug 1
Stanley Kunitz, at age 95, has been named the next poet laureate of the United States. In June, 1996, when Kunitz was a mere 90 years old, David Barber reviewed his most recent collection, Passing Through. Plus, hear Kunitz read aloud two of his poems from The Atlantic's pages: "The Quarrel" and "King of the River."

Supersonic Bust: The Story of the Concorde Aug 1
Since the crash of a Concorde near Paris last week, renewed attention has been focused on the aging supersonic jets. In January, 1977, Peter Gillman chronicled Britain's desperate push to develop the Concorde.

Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea? Jul 27
A Federal court order may put the Napster online music service out of business, and the recording industry is cheering. In "Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?" (September, 1998, Atlantic) Charles C. Mann offered an in-depth (and prophetic) report on how technology and politics are shaping the ownership of culture in the digital age.

Time to End the Korean War Jun 26
On Sunday the world marked the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Earlier this month the North and South agreed to seek an end to their hostility. Yet, as Bruce Cumings wrote in February 1997, "Fifty years later Korea is the best example in the world of how easy it is to get into a war and how difficult to get out."

The Wrong Man Jun 22
Texas death-row inmate Gary Graham was recently executed despite doubts surrounding his conviction. Last November, Alan Berlow reported on the disturbing likelihood that innocent people will be put to death in America.

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