Part 1 Politics in the Bush Era (continued) -- W. and the "Boy Genius" from Time / James Carney, John Dickerson 2 -- Why Are These Men Laughing? from Esquire / Ron Suskind 10 -- Mind of George W. Bush: from The Atlantic Monthly / Richard Brookhiser 30 -- Special K: from The New Republic / Jonathan Chait 52 -- Ideological Impostor: from The American Prospect / Robert Kuttner 60 -- With Signals and Maneuvers, Bush Orchestrates an Ouster: from The New York Times / Elisabeth Bumiller 66 -- National Conversation: Debt and Taxes -- What Is He Thinking? from Newsweek / Eleanor Clift 72 -- Partisan Lines Harden in Debate Over Tax Cuts: from The Christian Science Monitor / David Francis 75 -- Wealthy Choice: from The New Republic / Ryan Lizza 78 -- From Baghdad to Iwo Jima: from National Review Online / Lawrence Kudlow 82 -- Bushonomics: from The New Yorker / John Cassidy 84 -- Faces of Budget Cuts: from The New York Times / Bob Herbert 87 -- Part 2 State of the Union -- Govs Under the Gun: from Time / Karen Tumulty 92 -- Enron Ponzi Scheme: from Atlantic Unbound / Jack Beatty 95 -- Evil of Access: from The Nation / Mark Green 99 -- For Richer: from The New York Times / Paul Krugman 107 -- Children Left Behind: from The American Prospect / Stephanie Mencimer 125 -- Media: An Ongoing Non-Debate: from Crashing the Party / Ralph Nader 131 -- Cleaning the Pool: from New York Press / Matt Taibbi 142 -- Most Dangerous Branch? from The Atlantic Monthly / Simon Lazarus 145 -- One Big Happy Prison: from Stupid White Men / Michael Moore 152 -- National Conversation: Affirmative Action -- Affirmative Action: Goal vs. Issue: from The Washington Post / William Raspberry 164 -- A Policy That Depends on Segregation: from The New York Times / Benjamin Forest 166 -- Don't Do Me Any Favors: from American Enterprise Magazine / John McWhorter 168 -- Mongrel America: from The Atlantic Monthly / Gregory Rodriguez 176 -- Part 3 Marching to War -- Next Stop Baghdad? from Foreign Affairs / Kenneth Pollack 182 -- Bush at War: from Bush at War / Bob Woodward 193 -- A Decade of Deception and Defiance: President George W. Bush's Address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 12, 2002 205 -- Cause for Dissent: from Harper's Magazine / Lewis Lapham 212 -- What if They Gave a War and Nobody Cared? from Vanity Fair / James Wolcott 221 -- National Conversation: The Iraq Conflict -- We Stand Passively Mute: U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, on the Floor of the United States Senate, February 12, 2003 232 -- War and Consequences: from Slate.com / Christopher Hitchens 236 -- Sounds of Silence: from Newsweek / Anna Quindlen 238 -- Befuddled in Baghdad: from U.S. News & World Report / John Leo 241 -- Power of One: from Time / Michael Kinsley 243 -- Bush Family Values: from New York magazine / Michael Wolff 246 -- End of the Beginning: from The Weekly Standard / William Kristol 250 -- Part 4 America and the World -- Burden: from The New York Times Magazine / Michael Ignatieff 254 -- Bush and Iraq: from The New York Review of Books / Anthony Lewis 269 -- Unilateralist: from The Atlantic Monthly / James Fallows 278 -- White Lie: from The New Republic / Lawrence Kaplan 285 -- A Post-Saddam Scenario: from The Atlantic Monthly / Robert Kaplan 290 -- National Conversation: Winning the Peace -- Our New Baby: from The New York Times / Thomas Friedman 298 -- Giving Peace a Real Chance: from Newsweek / Fareed Zakaria 300 -- Missing in Action: Truth: from The New York Times / Nicholas Kristof 302 -- Privatization in Disguise: from The Nation / Naomi Klein 304 -- What Was Newt Thinking? from WorldNetDaily.com / Patrick Buchanan 307 -- He's Out With the In Crowd: from The New York Times / Maureen Dowd 309 -- Return of Bin Laden: from The Washington Post / Richard Cohen 312 -- Part 5 Democratic Contenders for 2004 -- ... and Sets the Tone: from The Washington Post / E. J. Dionne Jr. 316 -- Candide: from The New Yorker / Jeffrey Toobin 318 -- Is John Edwards the Next Bubba? from GQ / Robert Draper 332 -- Unlikely Rise of Howard Dean: from New York magazine / Meryl Gordon 345 -- Long War of John Kerry: from The New Yorker / Joe Klein 357 -- How the Dems Created Al Sharpton: from The New Republic / Michelle Cottle 382.