Notes from different corners of the world.

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• Five Million Dead and Counting The disaster in Congo is all the more tragic because it was utterly avoidable.
  Michael J. Kavanagh Nov. 14, 2008
  
• Goode Riddance A Darfur-supporting, time-tithing, self-deprecating newcomer becomes Virginia's big electoral surprise.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 7, 2008
  
• There's No Place Like Home The mood in Hyde Park—and what it says about Obama.
  Meghan O'Rourke Nov. 4, 2008
  
• The Undecided Amish To vote or not to vote.
  Noreen Malone Nov. 3, 2008
  
• Dropping In on Obama's Kenyan Grandmother What it means to be an Obama in Africa.
  Andy Isaacson Oct. 28, 2008
  
• Hail Sarah Palin courts believers in Virginia.
  Christopher Beam Oct. 28, 2008
  
• Swing-State Rednecks What Murtha and Obama get wrong about race and class in western Pennsylvania.
  Dennis B. Roddy Oct. 21, 2008
  
• Barack's Angels Lilly Ledbetter, Jill Biden, and Michelle Obama on the trail in Virginia.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 18, 2008
  
• Waiting for Ike The five stages of hurricane anxiety.
  Mimi Swartz Sept. 12, 2008
  
• McCain's Visit to Palin Country I went to a Sarah Palin rally, but all I got was a lousy handshake from John McCain.
  Bill Gifford Sept. 10, 2008
  
• Curse of the Black Gold The devastating impact of 50 years of oil exploitation in the Niger Delta.
  Ed Kashi Sept. 5, 2008
  
• Notes From Inside the GOP Convention McCain's last, best shot.
  Craig Turk Sept. 2, 2008
  
• Party Crashers The peace-loving, road-blocking, window-smashing protesters at the RNC.
  Christopher Beam Sept. 2, 2008
  
• Adventures of an Accidental Delegate 
  Monica Youn Aug. 25, 2008
  
• The Dictator Takes Up His Golf Clubs Pakistan reacts to Pervez Musharraf's resignation.
  Nicholas Schmidle Aug. 18, 2008
  
• Notes From a Failed State In Somalia, there is lots of talk but little hope.
  Emily Meehan Aug. 18, 2008
  
• On the Front Lines of the Global Food Crisis Is the damage inflicted on Punjab by the Green Revolution driving India's next big separatist movement?
  Mira Kamdar Aug. 4, 2008
  
• Obama Comes Calling In Israel, Obama tries to win over Jewish-American voters without upsetting the locals.
  Dina Kraft July 24, 2008
  
• Feith in the System There's legitimate interrogation, and then there's torture. Doug Feith is confident interrogators just know the difference.
  Dahlia Lithwick July 16, 2008
  
• Incentivized Birth How Russia's baby-boosting policies are hurting the population.
  Yasha Levine July 10, 2008
  
• Meet Afghanistan's Most Fearless Blogger Teaching journalists to write without fear, favor, or filter.
  Jeffrey Stern July 3, 2008
  
• The Headmaster and the Schoolboy David Addington and John Yoo visit the Hill.
  Emily Bazelon June 27, 2008
  
• Detour to Rwanda The U.N. Security Council shoots itself in the plane.
  David Bosco June 19, 2008
  
• China's SAT If the SAT lasted two days, covered everything you'd ever studied, and decided your future.
  Manuela Zoninsein June 4, 2008
  
• Dispatches From the R. Kelly Trial The debut of the "ghost sex" defense.
  Josh Levin June 3, 2008
  
• Talking to Hamas The group's exiled leader on Syria, Palestinian politics, and Vanity Fair.
  Deborah Amos May 28, 2008
  
• Dispatches From the R. Kelly Trial Day 1: Unveiling the "Shaggy Defense"
  Josh Levin May 21, 2008
  
• Dispatches From the R. Kelly Trial Day 3 of the R. Kelly trial: Sparkle's revenge.
  Josh Levin May 21, 2008
  
• Travels in the Former Soviet Union Uzbekistan's human rights activists are paranoid, weak, and unbelievably brave.
  Joshua Kucera May 19, 2008
  
• Darfur Rebellion from the margins.
  Shane Bauer May 1, 2008
  
• To Leave or Not To Leave? After decades in Pakistan, thousands of refugees return "home" to Afghanistan.
  Anna Husarska April 22, 2008
  
• Inside Saudi Arabia "This is one of the only countries in the world where the government wants change more than the people do."
  Nicholas Schmidle April 17, 2008
  
• China's Great Migration Why would hundreds of thousands of people risk their lives to move to America and live as illegal aliens?
  Patrick Radden Keefe April 9, 2008
  
• "Iraq Is Not a Suitable Place To Live as a Human" Why more than 1 million Iraqi exiles remain in Syria.
  Deborah Amos March 27, 2008
  
• My Lunch at Bear Stearns The investment bank may be worth only $2 a share, but it still has an amazing salad bar.
  Dana Vachon March 21, 2008
  
• Vet in a Suit Testimony from the Iraq Veterans Against the War.
  Anthony Swofford March 17, 2008
  
• A Terror Tour of Israel The human problem.
  Nathan Hodge March 10, 2008
  
• Trade-Offs Is China the key to Africa's development?
  Eliza Barclay March 6, 2008
  
• Monger Me, Obama! The mood in Texas.
  Meghan O'Rourke March 3, 2008
  
• Dispatches From China's Wild West The Kanas Lake Monster, China's Nessie.
  Joshua Kucera March 3, 2008
  
• The Aloha Spirit Caucusing in Hawaii.
  Laura Moser Feb. 20, 2008
  
• Who Are the Kikuyu? And why do Kenya's other tribes resent them so much?
  Michela Wrong Feb. 8, 2008
  
• Is This the Seedy Underbelly of New York Fashion? 
  Feb. 6, 2008
  
• Notes on Fashion Week What's everybody scribbling about in their notebooks?
  Josh Patner Feb. 6, 2008
  
• Thank You. Now Go to Hell. Mukasey stonewalls Senate Democrats on water-boarding, and practically everything else.
  Dahlia Lithwick Jan. 31, 2008
  
• Where Have You Gone, Jose Canseco? Missing the Bash Brothers at Congress' latest steroid hearings.
  Josh Levin Jan. 16, 2008
  
• On the Campaign Trail in Pakistan "Why should I vote in a Pakistani election? I don't recognize Pakistan."
  Nicholas Schmidle Jan. 9, 2008
  
• The Hidden Wounds of Congo's Wars How do you end an ethnic conflict?
  Anna Husarska Jan. 4, 2008
  
• You're for Obama? I'm Gonna Lock the Door on You! Hillary's supporters carry the caucus in Eldora, Iowa.
  Emily Bazelon Jan. 4, 2008
  
• What's Really Going On in Kenya? And why didn't a U.S.-funded group release its exit-poll data?
  Alex Halperin Jan. 2, 2008