New Yorker: Comment topic

A weekly reading of the magazine's "Comment" essay: Steve Coll on Steve Coll on foreign policy after Iran; Hendrik Hertzberg on why Iraq is political death for Bush's international allies; Hendrik Hertzberg on the funny, improbable Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee; George Packer on the Republican candidates; Steve Coll on Pakistan's two overlapping crises; Hendrik Hertzberg on the Hillary pile-on; Roger Angell on the end of the baseball season and the departure of Joe Torre; Hendrik Hertzberg on the ruling families of American politics; Lawrence Wright on the attitudes of the Iraqi people; Hendrik Hertzberg on Hillary Clinton's laugh; Steve Coll on the case of the Jena Six; Hendrik Hertzberg on Hillary Clinton and the spectre of universal health care; Steve Coll on the Petraeus code; Hendrik Hertzberg on the Larry Craig story; David Remnick on "The Israel Lobby"; Nicholas Lemann on Karl Rove's resignation, and his role in the Bush administration; Hendrik Hertzberg on a quarrel between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama; Steve Coll on Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the Wall Street Journal; Hendrik Hertzberg on the proposed reallocation of electoral votes in California; Nicholas Lemann on the Supreme Court's turnabout on race and the schools; Atul Gawande on Michael Moore and our health-care morass; Hendrik Hertzberg on the malign influence of Vice-President Cheney; George Packer on who benefits if Michael Bloomberg runs.