Meet The New Jihad
A TIME investigation reveals how insurgents in Iraq aim to create an Islamic state and turn the country into a terrorist haven

Nowhere To Hide
How the ethnic cleansing of western Sudan has created a humanitarian crisis that threatens 500,000 lives

How Tough Will He Get? (World/The Prime Minister)

Life as a Target in a Besieged Kingdom (Letter From Riyadh)
For Westerners in Saudi Arabia, even going to the mall has become a gamble


Dreaming About The Senate (Nation/'04 Campaign)
Why Democrats think they have a shot at taking it back, with hot candidates from Alaska to Illinois

Leaving Blacks Cold (Nation/'04 Campaign)
If African Americans are a natural constituency for John Kerry, why hasn't he been able to wow them?

Eyes And Ears Of The Nation
Thousands of truckers, bus drivers and rest-stop workers are being enlisted to spot terrorists. Is this comforting news?


Curbing The Drug Marketers
How a clampdown on pitching drugs for unapproved uses is changing the way Big Pharma operates

Putting Trials on the Record (Business/Drug Testing)

Wal-Mart's Gender Gap
What a landmark lawsuit aims to prove about how the No. 1 retailer pays its female workers


A Gentle G.O.P. Face
Arnold gets a speaker's slot at the Republican convention

Made Your July 1 Resolutions? (Essay)
Forget January. The time to turn over a new leaf is when the leaves are full

Letters (Letters)

A New Terror Threat
This holiday, watch out for those floating beer coolers

NUMBERS

24 Years Ago In Time

A Gay-Marriage Dance

Dating Websites: It's a Jungle Out There

Milestones

Performance Of The Week

Sour Notes Of Summer

Space Toy

Verbatim

Plenty More to Swear About (In The Arena)

10 Questions For Kenneth Starr (Interview)

Keira's Quest (Movies)
She's on the road to being a star. But the comely Ms. Knightley just wants to be a good actress

When It Rains, It Pours (Arts/Books)
Biblical characters are fiction's hot heroes. Now a first-time novelist takes us onto the ark with Noah

Spinning Gold (Movies)

It's De-Pressing! (Arts/Movies)
A new Cole Porter biopic plays the great songwriter's life in a minor key

People (People)


Womb with a View (Your Time/Health)
Sonographic snapshots of Baby as a fetus make cool keepsakes, but are they safe?

The Baby With A Double Dose Of Muscles (Your Time/Health)

The Calculus Of Cigarettes (Your Time/Health)

Specs And Sports (Your Time/Health)

To Buy or Not to Buy (Your Time/Lifestyle)
Owning a vacation home isn't all fun and games

Sightseeing In Gaddafi Country (Your Time/Lifestyle)

Let's Play Two (Your Time/Lifestyle)

The Myth of Megapixels (Your Time/Tech)
When picking a digital camera, those big numbers aren't the only thing

Music To Your Wrist (Your Time/Tech)

Water Tunes (Your Time/Tech)