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No Timetable For Withdrawal
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July/August 2005
Countdown to a Meltdown
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Foreign Affairs
October 2008
All Counterinsurgency Is Local
Prosecuting the war in Afghanistan from provincial capitals has been disastrous; we need to turn our military strategy inside out READ MORE
Books
October 2008
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
The narrator of Roth’s Indignation may die off early and horribly—but it’s the reader of this adolescent work who ought to feel the most outraged. READ MORE
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Distant Replay
How the greatest game in football history looks 50 years later, through the eyes of a modern NFL head coach READ MORE
The Nation In Numbers
October 2008
Blowback
Is wind power the new ethanol?
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5 September 2008
New Advice Column
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