Best Articles of 2004

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.

ArticleAuthor(s)Publication
Use Tax Refunds to Help Americans Save
Missing Children
Red-State Sneer
They Will Strike Again...
Parent Trap
Proper Sin Tax?
Breaking the Kashmir Impasse
The Sunni Angle
Putting up Walls, Not Opening Doors
A Lighter Shade of Blue for California
The Good Guys
Fixing Social Security
Achieving a More Inclusive Ownership Society
Buying Time in Tehran
The Factory
A World Neglected
After Welfare
Assimilation Happens -- Deal With It
Off Their Rockers
The No-Win Solution
The Long Hunt for Osama
The Moldy Massachusetts Miracle
Mortgage Markets Will Strengthen Arab Middle Classes
Sewer Socialism
Hey, Guys, the Action's Down There
Waiting for the Story
No One Is Winning in Chechnya
Multiply and be Fruitful
Risk Management
Extreme Makeover: Los Angeles Edition
The Atlantic is Becoming Even Wider
Terrorism Inc.
False Positive
Where Have All the Big Ideas Gone?
Middle-Class Tightrope
The Arab World Needs a Development Bank
Spoils of War
As the AIDS Bureaucracy Cashes In, the Prospect of a Cure Dims
What Would Machiavelli Do?
U.S. Can Find a Model for Iraq in Today's India
Will White Influx Put Down Roots in L.A. Core?
Fitting the Military to Reality
The Best Job in Town
Russia's Quagmire
Latinos Fall to Footnote
This Terrorist Is Bad Enough on His Own
Divided We Stand
How a Superpower Lost its Stature
A Tax Plan for Kerry
Creating a New Picture of War, Pixel by Pixel
The Aura of Election
Divide Civilian, Military Roles in Iraq
Europe's Implosion
Adoption Isn't A Game Show
Diagnosis: Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Information
Questions for Dr. Rice
Doctors Without Borders
Land of the Free?
The Limits of Medicine
A Dose of Denial
The Ambition Tax
Al Qaeda, the Movement
Offshoring is Not Just Pro-Con Debate
Raising Hell
Plunder Drugs
Mexican Americans Are Building No Walls
The Bush Budget, All Bulked Up
Islam and Democracy: The Great Experiment
Radical Tax Reform
Insurance Required
The Chieftains and the Church
America's 'Suez Moment'
Are We Still a Middle-Class Nation?
Information, Please
Nation-Building 101
The Tuition Crunch
Call It the Family Risk Factor