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September 26, 2005 Issue

Edwidge Danticat tells a personal story of post-9/11 paranoia, Andrew J. Bacevich reviews Robert Kaplan’s latest book and Stuart Klawa…

Cover art by: Cover photo by Kyle Niemi/US Coast Guard/Getty Images, cover design by Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels

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Editorial

William Rehnquist

William Rehnquist showed little regard for the social consequences that followed his unrelenting application of conservative legal theory.

FEMA: Confederacy of Dunces

FEMA enjoyed bipartisan praise during the 1990s under President Clinton. By the time Hurricane Katrina roared into the Gulf, the Bush Administration had dismantled it.

The Disaster President

The incompetence revealed by the response to Hurricane Katrina can be traced to a twenty-five-year project, begun in the Reagan era, of discrediting government.

Column

Found in the Flood

The most remarkable aspect of the media's treatment of the hurricane coverage was the return of the poor, in coverage that was neither condescending nor condemnatory.

Letters

Feature

Memorial Chauvinism

The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.

Books & the Arts

Desert Storm

This might be a good time for the Bush Administration to step up its reading on Saudi Arabia, starting with these three books.

Memorial Chauvinism

The controversy over the World Trade Center cultural institutions is one more episode in a long, often bitter dispute over how 9/11 should be remembered and understood.

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