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• Self-made TV.(Devil in the Details)
  by Zureick, Alyson
• With God on our side? The next big debate for Democrats concerns the r-word: do they need to get--or at least start talking about--religion? A progressive evangelist and anaggressive secularist have at it.
  by Wallis, Jim; Jacoby, Susan
• Gaza-cons.(Devil in the Details)
  by Siddique, Asheesh Kapur
• Dreamers without borders: what happened to the EU treaty looks a lot like what happened in America last year. Leaders in both places should think about that.
  by Barber, Benjamin R.
• The wrong litmus test.(THE LAST WORD)
  by Reich, Robert
• Nan in action.(Devil in the Details)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• Downsizing, Iraq-style: this fall, the "coalition of the willing" will become the coalition of the shrinking. And no, it's not because of the bombings in London.(Dispatches)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• Pulling punches.(Devil in the Details)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• Down is up (or so some say).(THE TAXONOMIST)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• Return to realism.(The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course)(Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation And The War In Iraq )(Book Review)
  by Lieven, Anatol
• The fraud caucus: to hear the media tell it, moderate Republicans are the greatest thing to hit Washington since air-conditioning. Enough already.
  by Yglesias, Matthew; Goldberg, Mark Leon
• Exit with honor.(PROSPECTS)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Transcript.(Devil in the Details)
• California's master builder.(California Rising: the Life and Times of Pat Brown)(Book Review)
  by Meyerson, Harold
• London bawling: conservative reactions to the bombings offer a case study in wing-nuttery: protect Bush and emphasize state terrorism (so we can invade someone new!).
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Dossier: to arms, to arms.(Devil in the Details)
• Hail, Victor!(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Shapiro, Burton; Greenberg, David
• Howard's beginning: love him, hate him--and different Democrats do each--Howard Dean is taking the fight to the GOP. The question is, can he do more than fight?
  by Enda, Jodi
• Rove on the ropes: sure, let's gloat: the president's guru has been flirting with this kind of scandal for years. It's time the bill came due.(Cover Story)
  by Conason, Joe
• Corrections.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Correction Notice)
• Recycled?(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Early, Steve
• Judge-ment day: Bork earned his "borking"--but it took 55 Democratic senators to do it. Fighting a Bush Supreme Court nominee today is a different game.(Dispatches)
  by Dubner, Jeffrey
• Unexplained.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Kosman, Tracy
• Bubblehead: Californian Chris Cox, the president's choice to reverse the reforms at the SEC, could be Bush's single most destructive regulatory appointee.(Dispatches)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• We write up.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Borresen, Hugo
• Four wars.(COMMENT)
  by Hollings, Ernest C.
• High court, high stakes: on morality, regulation, and privacy, the right seeks a Supreme Court revolution. Senate hearings have one job: to block it.
  by Ackerman, Bruce
• Vast write-wing conspiracy: Ed Klein's scurrilous The Truth About Hillary should serve as a warning to New York houses. Unfortunately, it's more of an augury.(PUBLISHING)
  by Dreher, Christopher