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• Shots in the dark: you may have forgotten "missile defense," but Rumsfeld hasn't. He's still pushing a useless, secretive--and very expensive--system.
  by Kurlantzick, Joshua
• Uh, Bob?(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Gibbons, Alan; Reich, Robert B.
• The truth about the Senate.(Book Review)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• Death by dilution: when fakes of a GlaxoSmithKline anti-malarial drug turned up in Africa, authorities assumed the drug giant would want to know. Instead, they learned about a huge, evil trade in fake drugs--and about an industry that doesn't want the tru
  by Cockburn, Robert
• We're trying.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Brugge, David M.
• National Security Council Chairman Stephen Hadley, CNN's Late Edition, November 13.(Brief Article)(Transcript)
• He's done: Bush once brandished September 11 like a weapon against his critics. But in one dramatic recent week, it all caught up with him. The 9-11 era is now over.
  by Rozen, Laura
• Open doors, closed minds: Jim Bill Lynn believed his Wal-Mart bosses when they said he should report unfair practices. He did--and walked into Kafka's castle.
  by Meyerson, Harold
• Tone it down!(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Day, Adam
• One step forward ... the West has high hopes for Morocco, but democracy is coming slowly.(DISPATCHES)
  by Pingree, Geoff; Abend, Lisa
• Homeward bound: "choice feminism" claims that staying home with the kids is just one more feminist option. Funny that most men rarely make the same "choice." Exactly what kind of choice is that?
  by Hirshman, Linda R.
• Animal matters.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Koneswaran, Gowri
• Washingtoon[R].(Cartoon)
  by Stamaty, Mark Alan
• This is simplification?(THE TAXONOMIST)
  by McIntyre, Robert S.
• The right fight.(PROSPECTS)
  by Kuttner, Robert
• Follow the (dear) leader: do art and culture even exist in North Korea? A new book and a new compact disc open the door--just a crack--on the Hermit Kingdom.(CULTURE)
  by Byrne, Richard
• Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, NBC's Meet the Press, November 14.(Brief Article)(Transcript)
• Part-ing shots: the Bush administration's curiously one-sided good-government tool.(DISPATCHES)
  by Grim, Ryan
• George W. Bush, Veterans Day Speech, November 11.(Brief Article)(Transcript)
• Picture this: can the ACLU pry more Abu Ghraib photos from the government?(American Civil Liberties Union)
  by McKelvey, Tara
• Dana Rohrabacher, auteur.(Devil in the Details)
  by Rosenfeld, Sam
• The two Darwinisms.(THE LAST WORD)
  by Reich, Robert B.
• Net effects: netroots activists are liberal firebrands? Tell that to Sherrod Brown.(Dispatches)
  by Klein, Ezra
• Naval gazing.(Devil in the Details)
  by Yglesias, Matthew
• Back to the future.(Book Review)
  by Parker, Richard
• Drug beneficiary.(American Association of Retired Persons )
  by Klein, Ezra
• Chalabi-palooza.(Ahmed Chalabi)
  by Goldberg, Mark Leon
• Sorry, not buying: so Republicans want black people to be grateful for their attention? Forgive me, but we're not quite as bowled over as they'd like us to be.
  by Packer, Z.Z.
• Dossier: the new New Orleans.
• Clarification.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Correction Notice)