Best Articles of 2006

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	Date
Is Obama the New 'Black'?	Gregory Rodriguez	Los Angeles Times	December 17, 2006
Little Hotties	Margaret Talbot	The New Yorker	December 5, 2006
He's Only Fifth Worst	Michael Lind	Washington Post	December 4, 2006
Send the Baker Commission to Gaza	Daniel Levy	The Washington Monthly	December 2, 2006
Anatomy of a Civil War	Nir Rosen	Boston Review	November 30, 2006
The Third California	Joel Kotkin	The Wall Street Journal	November 15, 2006
Time to Talk to the Bad Guys	Anatol Lieven	International Herald Tribune	November 11, 2006
Election Lessons for Both Parties	James Pinkerton	Newsday	November 9, 2006
The World After Bush	Michael Lind	Prospect	November 1, 2006
What Osama Wants	Peter Bergen	New York Times	October 26, 2006
Till Debt Do Us Part?	Jacob Hacker	Los Angeles Times	October 23, 2006
The United States in the Global Concert of Powers	Michael Lind	The Globalist	October 5, 2006
Reluctant Radicals	Mark Schmitt	The American Prospect	October 2, 2006
Enable a Moderate Health Care Solution	Len Nichols	Washingtonpost.com	September 30, 2006
Urban Legend	Joel Kotkin	Democracy: A Journal of Ideas	September 25, 2006
The Taliban, Regrouped And Rearmed	Peter Bergen	Washington Post	September 10, 2006
The Baby Lab	Margaret Talbot	The New Yorker	September 4, 2006
The Great Plains	Joel Kotkin	The Wall Street Journal	September 2, 2006
Illusion and Reality	Flynt Leverett	The American Prospect	September 1, 2006
The Real 'New Middle East'	Afshin Molavi	Washington Post	August 21, 2006
Katrina: A Year Later	Joel Kotkin	Los Angeles Times	August 20, 2006
The Unmourned End of Libertarian Politics	Michael Lind	Financial Times	August 17, 2006
The Best Minds Money Can Buy	Jennifer Washburn	Los Angeles Times	July 21, 2006
The Persian Game	Afshin Molavi	Salon	July 21, 2006
A Foreign Policy That Both Realists and Idealists Should Love	Robert Wright	New York Times	July 17, 2006
New Urgency for Early-20s Single Moms	Kelleen Kaye	Christian Science Monitor	July 11, 2006
Tax Inheritance, Not 'Death'	Maya MacGuineas Ian Davidoff	Washington Post	July 5, 2006
Al-Qaeda, Still in Business	Peter Bergen	Washington Post	July 2, 2006
Is the Common Good, Good?	Jedediah Purdy	The American Prospect	July 1, 2006
The New Axis of Oil	Flynt Leverett	The National Interest	July 1, 2006
A Labour Shortage Can Be a Blessing, Not a Curse	Michael Lind	Financial Times	June 8, 2006
We Need New Technology, Not Cheap Labor	James Pinkerton	Newsday	April 12, 2006
The Legal Lock on Stem Cells	Jennifer Washburn	Los Angeles Times	April 11, 2006
How to Get Out of the Iran Trap	Anatol Lieven	Washingtonpost.com	April 11, 2006
How to Lose the Brain Race	Michael Lind Steven Clemons	New York Times	April 10, 2006
Young and Restless	Afshin Molavi	Smithsonian Magazine	April 1, 2006
Overselling a Nuclear Deal	Rajan Menon Anatol Lieven	International Herald Tribune	March 7, 2006
Iraq's Jordanian Jihadis	Nir Rosen	The New York Times Magazine	February 19, 2006
California's Independent Streak	David Lesher	Los Angeles Times	February 19, 2006
The Silent Treatment	Robert Wright	New York Times	February 17, 2006