The Point of No Return
The Iranian nuclear threat will soon come to a head. A preemptive attack by Israel could be disastrous. It might happen anyway.
September 2010
In This Issue
How Israel is getting ready to bomb Iran, the rise of prisons without walls, Chistopher Hitchens on anti-Semitism's universal threat, and more
Features
Living With a Nuclear Iran
Henry Kissinger believes that containing Iran will depend on one thing: showing its leaders that we're willing to go to war.
Whale Crossing
As sea traffic booms, can new shipping lanes and speed limits save the right whale from extinction?
The News Merchant
TV news is driven, more and more, by the latest scoops on JonBenet, Caylee, and Natalee. The inside story of how tabloid-TV stories are made, bought, and paid for—and the man who's often behind it all.
Prison Without Walls
With prisons stretched to the breaking point, some cities are trying a radical new idea: letting convicts roam free, under constant electronic surveillance.
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Paul E. Alers/NASA/AP Earthbound
The space-shuttle program is coming to a quiet end. Is the same true for the era of space exploration?
James Whitlow Delano/Redux Japan Surrenders
The author returns to his old Tokyo neighborhood and finds an inward-looking country that has lost its ambition.
Julian Finney/Getty Images High Strung
The inexplicable collapse of a tennis phenom
Jeffrey Kerby Flogging Genghis Khan
Mongolia revives its strongman. Will the hordes follow?
Marcos Chin A Death on Facebook
Intimacy and loss in the age of social media
Ramin Rahimiam/Wonderful Machine A More Perfect Union
In San Francisco, two dominant trends of the cocktail world are converging, with exquisite results.
Mauricio Galleguillos Larraín On Bolivia’s Coca Trail
High anxiety amid giant Tree Ferns and landslides in Bolivia’s little-traveled—and dazzling—Carrasco National Park
Livescribe Inc. The Pen Gets Mightier
One entrepreneur’s latest effort to revolutionize how we think, learn, play music, and order coffee in Chinese
Books
Steve Pyke/Getty Images Killing Her Softly
A measured, sympathetic—and ultimately damning— portrait of the 20th century’s most wickedly funny novelist
Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos Chosen
The toxin of anti-Semitism isn’t a threat only to Jews.
Julius Shulman, reprinted from Architecture of the Sun by Thomas S. Hines, Rizzoli Cover to Cover
Los Angeles modernism revisited; Alan Bennett's new memoir; the pain of fish; the final word on the Final Solution; and more
Columns
Daniel Hertzberg The Great Stock Myth
Why the market’s rate of return—and your nest egg—may never recover
Lou Brooks And the World Turned
Cheesy, clichéd, and still strangely bewitching, soap operas are falling victim to their own bastard children.
Also in this issue
Alain Keler/Sygma/CORBIS Nuclear Options
President Obama and his advisers are facing a series of questions on Iran and Israel. Every answer is discouraging.
Seth What’s Your Problem?
Never have maxillofacial surgery in Los Angeles, and other advice
