Best Articles of 2003

Stories and commentary that shaped the year's debates. Click on any item below for more information, or on a tab above to see another year's featured articles.

Article	Author(s)	Publication
Suburbia Gains an Accent	Gregory Rodriguez	Los Angeles Times
The Dense Web of Al Qaeda	Peter Bergen	Washington Post
Syria Has Its Faults, but Is No Threat to U.S.	James Pinkerton	Newsday
Stop Politicking, Fix Trade Policy	David Friedman	Los Angeles Times
Poison Pill	Jacob Hacker	Boston Globe
The Multipolar World Vs. The Superpower	Sherle R. Schwenninger	The Globalist
Too Much	Margaret Talbot	The New York Times Magazine
Revamping American Grand Strategy	Sherle R. Schwenninger	World Policy Journal
An Unhealthy Step Backward	Jacob Hacker	Los Angeles Times
Pillboxed In	Alicia Mundy	The Washington Monthly
Note to the Candidates: Sky May Not Be Falling	David Friedman	Los Angeles Times
Democracy, Closer Every Day	Noah Feldman	New York Times
The Cancun Delusion	Michael Lind	New York Times
All Those Factory Jobs Are Gone -- Forever	James Pinkerton	Newsday
In Computer Security, a Bigger Reason to Squirm	Brendan I. Koerner	New York Times
From Public School to Welfare Service	J.H. Snider	Washington Post
Up in the Air	Michael Calabrese J.H. Snider	The Atlantic
Iraq Could Become U.S.'s West Bank and Gaza	James Pinkerton	Newsday
The French Have a Word for Iraq: Quagmire	James Pinkerton	Newsday
The Marriage Cure	Katherine Boo	The New Yorker
A Private Windfall for Public Property	Michael Calabrese	Washington Post
Health Insurance Required	Ted Halstead Laurie Rubiner	Washington Post
The Watchdog That's Off and Running	Nicholas Thompson	Washington Post
White Collar Blues	David Friedman	Los Angeles Times
Health, Hope and Hype	Shannon Brownlee	Washington Post
For Every Child, a Stake in America	Ray Boshara	New York Times
Operation Iraqi Democracy	Noah Feldman	The Wall Street Journal
How Not To Fix Medicare	Jacob Hacker	New York Times
Capitol Deserts Private Sector	David Friedman Joel Kotkin	Los Angeles Times
The Spending Tax	Maya MacGuineas	Boston Globe
Dr. Strangelove	Jacob Hacker	The New Republic
Star Search	Nicholas Thompson	The Washington Monthly
Getting Real on Raising Test Scores	J.H. Snider	Washington Post
Nuclear Weapons We Don't Need	Peter Scoblic	Washington Post
Shot in the Arm	Shannon Brownlee	The New Republic
America's Children Will Pay for These Tax Cuts	Ted Halstead Maya MacGuineas	Financial Times
Hydrogen's Dirty Secret	Barry C. Lynn	Mother Jones
Sharing, Alaska-Style	Steven Clemons	New York Times
The Texas Nexus	Michael Lind	Prospect
The Health of Nations	Phillip Longman	The Washington Monthly
The Perils of Prevention	Shannon Brownlee	The New York Times Magazine
Latest Blow to State: the Incredible Shrinking Private Sector	David Friedman	Los Angeles Times
Crusader Shadows	James Pinkerton	United Press International
Institutional Investors Go Green	Ricardo Bayon	The Milken Institute Review
An Economic Plan That Cancels Itself	Maya MacGuineas	Los Angeles Times
Hollywood and Whine	Brendan I. Koerner	The Washington Monthly
Chaos and Constitution	Barry C. Lynn	Mother Jones
The Black Gender Gap	Katherine Boo	The Atlantic
The Parent Trap	Karen Kornbluh	The Atlantic
Suspicious Minds	Jedediah Purdy	The Atlantic
The $6,000 Solution	Ray Boshara	The Atlantic
The Fuel Subsidy We Need	Ricardo Bayon	The Atlantic
Mongrel America	Gregory Rodriguez	The Atlantic
The American Paradox	Ted Halstead	The Atlantic
Spendthrift Nation	Michael Calabrese Maya MacGuineas	The Atlantic
Time For a New Social Contract	Ted Halstead	Global Agenda
One-Dimensional Growth	David Friedman	The Atlantic
The New Continental Divide	Michael Lind	The Atlantic
A Grand Compromise	James Pinkerton	The Atlantic
The Overtreated American	Shannon Brownlee	The Atlantic
Catch and Release	Margaret Talbot	The Atlantic
To Guarantee Universal Coverage, Require It	Ted Halstead	New York Times
This Link Between Islamist Zealot And Secular Fascist Just Doesn't Add Up	Peter Bergen	The Guardian (London)
What Sharon Offers Israel: More Bleakness	James Pinkerton	Newsday
Demographic Changes Upset Affirmative Action	Gregory Rodriguez	Los Angeles Times
Separate but Unequal	James Forman Jr.	Michigan Journal of Race & Law
Squeezed in a Service Economy	Phillip Longman	Washington Post
War of Ideas May Be the Toughest U.S. Faces	James Pinkerton	Newsday

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