November 15, 2004 | Vol. 164, No. 19

COVER

In Victory's Glow (Cover Story | Election 2004)

The extraordinary triumph of President George W. Bush

An Agenda for Asia (Cover Story | Election 2004 | The Elections and Asia)

The Bush Administration faces some major challenges in Asia

In the New, New World (Cover Story | Election 2004 | The Elections and Asia)

As Asian nations adopt a more prominent international role, how can a new U.S. Administration help?

Inside The War Rooms (Cover Story | Election 2004)

Bush and Kerry weren't only battling each other. In the hunt for every last vote, each man had to rediscover his own instincts as well. TIME takes you behind the scenes

Strait Talk (Cover Story | Election 2004 | Interview)

TIME meets with Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian, who talks of cross-strait relations

Why America Must Rediscover Asia (Cover Story | Election 2004 | Viewpoint)

Following re-election, Bush needs to make up ground in the world's most dynamic region

ASIA

In from the Cold

Charles Jenkins, a U.S. serviceman accused of fleeing the Army for North Korea 40 years ago, finally gets his day in court

Henan's Ethnic Tensions

A deadly riot in Henan province highlights unrest in rural China

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Living for Pleasure

A sumptuous show of scrolls, prints and gilded screens recalls the "floating world," an era when Japanese artists and hedonists learned to live for the moment

Delightfully Displaced

The journals of a perennial outsider in Japan celebrate the joys of being foreign