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Articles in April 2005 issue of Washington Monthly

• The Washington Monthly's 2004 Annual Political Book Award winner
• The bustling port of Little Rock
  by Charles Peters
• The winner's secret
  by Charles Peters
• Pinkertons at the CPA: Iraq's resurgent labor unions could have helped rebuild the country's civil society. The Bush administration, of course, tried to crush them
  by Matthew Harwood
• Quit the day job
  by Charles Peters
• Ladies of the night
  by Charles Peters
• Go ahead, make me
  by Charles Peters
• Swing conservative: the perilous bipartisanship of Lindsey Graham
  by Geoff Earle
• A party of one
  by Charles Peters
• But they love Britney Spears
  by Charles Peters
• Why take a cheaper drug when the more expensive one works?
  by Charles Peters
• Taking liberty: liberals ignore and conservatives misunderstand America's guiding value: freedom
  by William A. Galston
• What a way to go: Sarah Vowell's morbidly funny tour of presidential assassination sites
  by Jamie Malanowski
• The Ayatollah as Miss Manners
  by Charles Peters
• Can I borrow the Cessna? It won't take long
  by Charles Peters
• Fancy words
  by Charles Peters
• Bloody necessary: Europeans won't admit it, but America's violent messianism isn't all bad
  by Michael Hirsh
• Above the fumes
  by Charles Peters
• Sucking up
  by Charles Peters
• They'd better hustle
  by Charles Peters
• From Venus to Minerva: most fashion magazines play on women's insecurities. Anna Wintour's Vogue plays on their ambitions
  by Christina Larson
• A complimentary martini with your colonoscopy
  by Charles Peters
• Contemptible
  by Charles Peters
• A tale of two cities: get ready for "Paris on the Potomac."
  by Christina Larson
• They might be giants: Alan Wolfe says democrats can reclaim the mantle of American greatness
  by Bruce Reed
• Hooray for VA
  by Patrick J. Doyle
• Three hundred miles and a world away
  by Charles Peters
• How am I supposed to pay the nanny?
  by Charles Peters
• The beat goes on: George Washington got a monument. Sonny Bono gets a traffic island
  by William Beutler
• From Sarajevo to Baghdad: David Rieff's muddled second thoughts on humanitarian intervention
  by Jacob Heilbrunn
• Democratic defeats
  by Porter McNeil
• There's a slight problem with that law
  by Charles Peters
• Chump change
  by Charles Peters
• Monthly Journalism Award
  by Peter Gosselin
• Home alone: the stunted lives of military wives
  by Clara Bingham
• Framing the debate
  by Wendy Foster Dickson
• Ya gotta get up
  by Charles Peters
• The dread AMT
  by Charles Peters
• Silent Femmes: it's not really discrimination that keeps women off the op-ed pages. It's women themselves
  by Amy Sullivan
• I pay my own fees
  by Danny J. Boggs
• Would a calculator help?
  by Charles Peters
• Losing West Virginia
  by Charles Peters
• Going postal: Washington's recurring attempts to squeeze small magazines out of business
  by Victor S. Navasky