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Every American can be his own policeman; the country has nearly as many guns as it has people. Photograph by Christopher Griffith.

On Thursday, January 19th, the front page of the Daily Mail carried a story about Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. During Goodwin’s tenure, from 2000…

Richard Neustadt, who died in 2003, was the most influential scholar of the American Presidency. He was a founder of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and an adviser to Harry Truman, John…

May 12, 2008

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about the arrest and trial of arms trafficker Viktor Bout. Describes Bout’s first major foray into the weapons business in 1995, when he transported weapons to…

Keith Olbermann's success, like Bill O'Reilly's, is evidence of viewer cocooning—the inclination to seek out programming that reinforces one’s own firmly held political views. "People want to identify," MSNBC's Phil Griffin says. "They want the shortcut. 'Wow, that guy’s smart. I get him.' In this crazy world of so much information, you look for places where you identify, or you see where you fit into the spectrum, because you get all this information all day long."