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Articles in Sept 2005 issue of Washington Monthly

• Good thing Grover Norquist wasn't around
  by Charles Peters
• Two daughters, three sons
  by Charles Peters
• In the imperial weeds: in his travels with special forces on the frontier of America's empire, Robert Kaplan captures the gritty realities, but not the paradoxes
  by Christian Caryl
• Tutored tots
  by Charles Peters
• Changing the subject
  by Charles Peters
• Air time: Andrea Mitchell sat front row for 30 years of American political history—and came away with nothing to say
  by Jason Zengerle
• Universal health vouchers
  by Pierre-Andre La Chance
• Paris Hilton would have bombed in Topeka
  by Charles Peters
• Hint: do away with the nametags
  by Charles Peters
• Search lite: you may think Google is powerful today, but it's still only using 5% of its brain
  by Markos Kounalakis
• Country boys
  by Charles Peters
• Blessed are the merciful
  by Charles Peters
• "Negro removal"
  by Charles Peters
• Inside the green zone: a former CPA advisor details just how dysfunctional the Iraq occupation was
  by Ed Kilgore
• Mall rats: the FBI's favorite place to snag targets is the Pentagon City Mall
  by Amy Sullivan
• The Washington Monthly college guide: other guides ask what colleges can do for you. We ask what colleges are doing for the country
• Where did the lobbyists sit?
  by Charles Peters
• Our preacher-in-chief
  by Charles Peters
• May we suggest a simple brochure?
  by Charles Peters
• Follow the refuse: Elizabeth Royte's weirdly informative investigation of what happens to our trash
  by Jamie Malanowski
• The Washington Monthly's Monthly Journalism Award
• The King and the Duke
  by Charles Peters
• Scrooges and suckers
  by Charles Peters
• The big problem still exists
  by Charles Peters
• Weak hand: journalists can make today's geeky poker players seem interesting. They just can't make them heroes
  by Justin Peters
• Capitol Hill guide to free food: whoever said "there's no such thing as a free lunch" never worked as a congressional intern. Among the hundreds of receptions held every year, a few annual events hold special appeal for the underpaid, underfed p
• Charging into battle
  by Charles Peters
• Oil shock
  by John Gotthold
• What's the matter with kids today?
  by Charles Peters
• Bright ignoramuses
  by Charles Peters
• Mitt Romney's evangelical problem: everyone wants to believe the Massachusetts governor's Mormonism won't be a problem if he runs in 2008. Think again
  by Amy Sullivan
• It's either that or a massive depends subsidy
  by Charles Peters
• 1940 Ad
  by Charles Peters
• Convention wisdom
  by Charles Peters
• Bush league
  by Charles Peters
• Burning Atlanta: all the old regulatory weapons couldn't reform the Georgia power plant that is America's single biggest polluter. But a new law is working
  by David Whitman
• Old demons
  by Charles Peters
• Whose bed am I in?
  by Charles Peters
• Jargon watch: the press discovers Grover Norquist, again
• Confessions of a humvee liberal: the New Yorker's George Packer has written a penetrating, unblinking account of the catastrophic Iraq war that he supported. He just can't admit he was wrong
  by Michael Hirsh
• A real life Mr. Smith
  by Charles Peters
• Easy street
  by Charles Peters
• Judging the judges: liberals need a new constitutional vision to guide their decisions. Cass Sunstein may have it
  by Stephen Pomper