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PHOTOS

See Sarah Run

Photographer captures former vice-presidential hopeful Palin on the set of 'Saturday Night Live', and on the campaign trail

FAREED ZAKARIA

How to Fix the World

Obama's unique opportunity to build global peace

Obama's unique opportunity to build global...

Charles Ommanney / Getty Images for Newsweek

Dec. 8, 2008 issue
MIDDLE EAST

The Limits of U.S. Power

Why 'offshore balancing' might be our best Mideast strategy

Why 'offshore balancing' might be our...

Mahmud Hams / AFP-Getty Images

Dec. 8, 2008 issue
IRAN

Talking Tough

It's not too late to stop Iran from getting the bomb

It's not too late to stop...

Chavosh Homavandi / AFP-Getty Images

Dec. 8, 2008 issue

First Things First, Mr. President

by Robert J. Samuelson

THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTON

A Good Spymaster Is Hard To Find

by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

THE VERDICT

Joy—And Need—At Operation Breakthrough

by Eleanor Clift

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Crossing the Color Line

Alice Walker's Open Letter to Obama

GALLERY

Dirty, Sexy Campaign Collectibles

An audio tour of some rare, odd and even vicious mementos from presidential campaigns past

Dec 2, 2008 | Updated 117 min ago

Palin urges Ga. voters to back Chambliss in runoff

Obama taps Clinton, Gates for US 'new dawn' abroad

Ariz. governor picked for Homeland Security post

Obama expresses sympathy over Mumbai attack

Jones brings hefty resume to security post

TRANSITION

The Real Security Challenge

John Barry

What Obama's team needs to understand.

POLITICS

Change 2.0

Lawrence Lessig

Can Obama create a truly transformational presidency?

NATIONAL SECURITY

The General’s Marching Orders

John Barry, Dan Ephron and Richard Wolffe

The NSA: A Recent History

GLOBAL AGENDA

Middle East: Know the Limits of U.S. Power

John J. Mearsheimer

GLOBAL AGENDA

China: Don’t Isolate, Integrate

Richard N. Haass

GLOBAL AGENDA

Russia: Ease Moscow’s Suspicions

Michael Mandelbaum

GLOBAL AGENDA

The Price of Loyalty

Jacob Weisberg

Bush made personal allegiance a threshold test. The result was a surfeit of reliable hacks and outright incompetents.

CAMPAIGN 2008

Battleground Georgia

Suzanne Smalley

Both political parties are pouring massive resources into the state's high-stakes runoff election for a U.S. Senate seat.

POLITICS

Just One More Frame!

Suzanne Smalley

How do you raise kids in the White House and 'keep them normal,' too?

Courting Malia and Sasha

HUMOR

After visiting the D.C. public school system and two prestigious private institutions, Michelle Obama chose the elite Sidwell Friends for her children. NEWSWEEK imagines how educators might have lobbied the future First Lady.

Comments

MEDIA

When Left is Right

Julia Baird

Rachel Maddow always thought she was an outsider. How did she become a star?

HISTORY

Letter? I Never Got Any Letter, Herbert.

Jonathan Alter

Before his Inaugural, FDR craftily dodged attempts to saddle him with Hoover's crisis. What Obama can learn.

THE EMPLOYMENT OFFICE

Give These Men a Job

How do you feel about Bush's job prospects upon leaving the White House? And, what should his shadowy second-in-command, Dick Cheney, do next? Time to find these two men new jobs! Click here for the details.

Dec. 1, 1824

For the first time in U.S. history, Congress decides the outcome of a presidential election. Four candidates campaigned during the 1824 presidential race. When the electoral votes came in, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson were in the lead, but two other candidates had enough votes to prevent either man from winning the necessary majority. According to the 12th Amendment, the House of Representatives would have to decide between the front runners. Adams prevailed, thanks in large measure to support from House Speaker Henry Clay.