COVER

America's Medicated Army (United States)

Thousand of troops are being given antidepressant drugs to deal with battle field stress. A TIME investigation reveals combat's heavy toll on their mental health and why the military's efforts to treat it may be making the problem worse

BRIEFING

Farewell to Arms (The Moment)

Australia withdraws most of its ground troops from Iraq

UNITED STATES

How He Did It (Campaign '08 / Obama)

By building a new political machine, Barack Obama became the first insurgent Democrat in decades to dethrone a front runner. In an exclusive interview, he describes his path to a historic victory

ASIA

Lee's Blue House Blues

South Korea's President Lee Myung Bak rode a groundswell of support into office, but "the Bulldozer" is discovering that in Asia, fickle voters sometimes push back

TECHNOLOGY

GLOBAL BUSINESS

LETTERS