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• The Female Thing Calling it quits and moving on.
  Daphne Merkin Dec. 6, 2006
  
• Max Boot's War Made New What's a superpower to do?
  Phillip Carter Nov. 14, 2006
  
• Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope Debating the new book by the rising Democratic star.
  Alan Wolfe Nov. 1, 2006
  
• Debating The J Curve The best case for India.
  Fareed Zakaria Oct. 16, 2006
  
• Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide "Israel would never countenance the kind of cruelty inflicted on Iraqis in American prisons."
  Jeffrey Goldberg Oct. 4, 2006
  
• The Shakespeare Wars Battling the American Shakespeare industrial complex.
  Stephen Metcalf Sept. 20, 2006
  
• The Looming Tower How things might have worked out differently and why they didn't
  Lawrence Wright Aug. 8, 2006
  
• The Good Fight Why Beinart has to accept that punditry has consequences.
  Michael Tomasky June 13, 2006
  
• Politics Lost Consultants have hijacked the Democratic Party.
  Markos Moulitsas May 17, 2006
  
• Who Controls the Internet? and An Army of Davids Is power on the Internet a zero-sum game?
  Tim Wu March 28, 2006
  
• Rip It Up and Start Again The sexual politics of "twee pop."
  Stephen Metcalf March 6, 2006
  
• Bernard-Henri Lévy's American Vertigo If only he'd taken on the culture war.
  Franklin Foer Jan. 24, 2006