Articles from Washington Monthly (August 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Fight club: excessive force nearly lost us the Iraq War. The brass who gave the orders still don't get it.	Ricks, Thomas E.	Book review	1738
Freedom's long march: advancing democracy in the post-Bush era.	Clark, Wesley K.	Book review	1849
Got issues?	Glastris, Paul		780
How fast you can read this essay online.	Thompson, Nicholas		1033
How our health care stacks up with Slovenia's.	Noah, Timothy		1008
How the world sees us, and how we see ourselves.	Alter, Jonathan		655
Iraq bottom: Dexter Filkins's brilliant memoir of the war's worst years.	Douglas, Clint	Book review	1762
Modern immaturity: why it's okay for twenty-eight-year-olds to play Halo 3.	Taussig, Doron	Book review	2349
Pay to win: raising taxes during wartime has never been fun. Why other presidents did it.	Mehrotra, Ajay K.	Book review	1511
Setup on K street: sting operations on sleazeball lobbyists aren't what they used to be.	Malanowski, Jamie	Book review	1788
Special relationship: the British spies who slept their way through Washington during World War II.	Peterson, Britt	Book review	1253
The Courts.	Mencimer, Stephanie		1905
The grand bargain: five presidents have treated Iran as a threat. The next needs to think of it as an opportunity.	Leverett, Flynt; Leverett, Hillary Mann		4399
The plug-in revolution: a grand plan for America's energy woes.	Leonard, Jeffrey		2967
The size of the debt.	Easterbrook, Gregg		1453
The stakes 2008.		Cover story	307
Tilting at windmills.	Peters, Charles		3269
What No Child Left Behind left behind.	Lemann, Nicholas		960
What Xiao Bush got right.	Fallows, James		1301
Your salary in 2016.	Drum, Kevin		1495