THIS WEEK AT THEATLANTIC.COM September 09, 2010 | INTERNATIONAL | In an exclusive interview in Havana, the communist revolutionary explains what's wrong with the system | | | | POLITICS | Liberals may not turn out on Election Day because they're disappointed by the White House and Congress—not because they don't hate Republicans | | | | BUSINESS | It would certainly get people to shop more and push businesses to hire so they can keep up with new demand | | | | CULTURE | An interview with historian Sean Wilentz about his new book on the musical giant | | | | SCIENCE & TECH | How attorneys general forced the website to start making money off of sex ads in 2008—and why closing "adult services" will make prostitution worse | | | | NATIONAL | American education is far from perfect, but the models abroad aren't much better | | | | FOOD | That's how much money schools have to feed children after the bureaucracy takes its cut. The pittance has one of the world's best chefs, and a father, calling for change. | | | | VIDEO | | | | MOST POPULAR THIS WEEK | - The Point of No Return
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