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The photographer Julián Cardona shares images from Juárez, where violent drug cartels rule the streets and citizens live in fear.



The Border of Madness


Philip Caputo
"The question is, can the army be trusted, and if so, can it win this latest—and biggest—battle in the seemingly endless “war on drugs”? President Calderón has deployed more than 45,000 troops (out of a total force of 230,000) throughout the country. Of that number, about 7,000, reinforced by 2,300 federal policemen, occupy Juárez as part of Operación Conjunta Chihuahua—the Joint Chihuahuan Operation. The army has taken over all the policing functions. The city is under undeclared martial law. Although many ordinary Mexicans welcome the army’s intervention, certain that things would be far worse without it, approval has been far from universal."
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Researcher Stephen Suomi explains why monkeys with risky genes often turn out just fine





December 2009
David Dobbs
"Of all the evidence, perhaps the most compelling comes from the work of Stephen Suomi, a rhesus-monkey researcher who heads a sprawling complex of labs and monkey habitats in the Maryland countryside. Very early in his work, Suomi identified two types of monkeys that had trouble managing these relations. Suomi saw that each of these monkey types tended to come from a particular type of mother. Bullies came from harsh, censorious mothers who restrained their children from socializing. Anxious monkeys came from anxious, withdrawn, distracted mothers. The heritages were pretty clear-cut. But how much of these different personality types passed through genes, and how much derived from the manner in which the monkeys were raised?"
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James Parker narrates his favorite scenes from When Harry Met Sally and What Women Want.

Double-X Films


James Parker
"Fairytale Hollywood glitters distantly over the movies of both Meyers and Ephron, for whom the secrets of men versus women were engraved upon the heart of Ernst Lubitsch, and the fabulous maidens were not Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty but Ingrid Bergman and Deborah Kerr. Harry and Sally bicker over Casablanca; for the women of Sleepless in Seattle, the emotional touchstone is An Affair to Remember ('Men never get this movie!'). In Meyers’s The Holiday, Kate Winslet gets tips from an authentic Golden Age geezer, a creaky Oscar-toting screenwriter who instructs her in the technicalities of the Lubitschean 'meet-cute.' Hanging Up (directed by Keaton, from a script by Ephron and her sister Delia) features Walter Matthau as the dying father, the crumbling Hollywood lion, his mind dimming behind hospital screens as he rambles about the smallness of John Wayne’s penis."
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Excerpts from the Atlantic Water Summit








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A poem by Robert Morgan, read by the poet

Fern Glade

December 2009
Robert Morgan

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The Atlantic's literary editor, Benjamin Schwarz discusses his picks with
senior editor Jennie Rothenberg Gritz








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Atlantic editors discuss the November issue and four honorees describe their bold visions



Brave Thinkers

November 2009

For more than 150 years, the Atlantic has told the stories of people who commit acts of moral and intellectual bravery by espousing unpopular or controversial positions. In a special issue of the magazine, the editors have chosen 27 leaders--from business and politics to science and media--who embody this great tradition today. These are people who are risking careers, reputations, and fortunes to advance ideas that upend an established order.
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Highlights from a two-day gathering of eminent journalists, newsmakers, and historians



More coverage from the First Draft of History

October 1-2, 2009


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James Parker comments on his favorite scenes from VH1's Celebrity Rehab

Retching With the Stars

November 2009
James Parker
"Peering from beneath hoods, wearing sweatpants, clutching blankets, huddling sideways in their chairs as if centrifugally dislodged from their own lives, the celebs tell their stories at group sessions. The stories, of abuse and neglect, are very sad: sometimes Dr. Drew is literally panting with empathy. Then after each session, in the facility’s little Californian back garden, they sit amid lush, dark leaves and smoke like chimneys, if such furrowed, ritualistic intensity can be attributed to chimneys. And they fall to pieces, punctually."
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Benjamin Schwarz deconstructs scenes from Mad Men that reveal Don Draper’s vulnerable side

Mad About Mad Men

November 2009
Benjamin Schwarz
"Don Draper is consistently true to the past the writers have established for him. Some critics find his appealing unflappability implausible, and they fault the show for sacrificing its commitment to verisimilitude in the interest of maintaining the lead actor’s appeal. They fail to grasp that Don--whose entire identity is a fabrication--would have to possess preternatural cool. He’s always on."
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At a bus stop in Costa Rica, a 9-year-old boy is dropped off by his father and abducted by his mother and her ex-husband. Audio and transcript from the files of Atlantic contributor Nadya Labi.





November 2009
Nadya Labi
"Todd Hopson does not come across as the sort of person who would hire a kidnapper. His idea of excitement is watching Seinfeld reruns. He is quick with a one-liner if conversation flags. He clears his throat repeatedly, a nervous tic that may be related to his fondness for cigars. During most of our time in Costa Rica, he wore the same outfit--a khaki shirt with lots of pockets, jeans, and bright-white sneakers. But while Hopson may seem like a softie, his resolve is strong: he would rather break the laws of Costa Rica than his word to Andres."
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A poem by Andrew Hudgins, read by the poet

Villanelle with a Refrain from the Wall Street Journal

November 2009
Andrew Hudgins

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Ta-Nehisi Coates visits Andrew Sullivan at his Provincetown vacation home
to ask questions submitted by Atlantic readers.








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Corby Kummer meets farmers and chefs with a passion for fresh, organic produce






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James Parker contrasts Russell Brand's lanky sensuality with Ricky Gervais's dumpy materialism

Brit Wit
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910/british-wit
October 2009
James Parker
Ricky Gervais and Russell Brand are not partners. Nonetheless, there is something dyadic about these two. Gervais is 47, dumpy and comfortable-looking. He’s a strict materialist: one of his stand-up routines involves reading aloud from the book of Genesis, while the audience falls about laughing. His characteristic expression is a slightly canine leer. Brand is 34, lanky, dark-complexioned, black-clad, immoderately sensual, lightly bearded, and announced in silhouette by an outrageous nimbus of back-combed hair: in full panoply, with his boots and bullet belt and chains and eyeliner, he looks like Chewbacca’s girlfriend. He describes himself as “a spiritual gent” and closes his stand-up act with a pious “Hare Krishna.”
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