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The New Yorker's Steve Coll profiles the astonishing David Petraeus

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/08/080908fa_fact_coll

Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff profiles Rupert Murdoch and details the narrowing rift between the owner of Fox News, the New York Post and the London Times, and Barack Obama

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/10/wolff200810

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz writes about Brit Hume's untimely retirement

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403646.html

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi follows Obama on the trail

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/22805322/obama_on_the_trail

Newsday's Walt Handelsman's pictures are worth a thousand words

http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/opinion/walthandelsman/blog/

TIME interviews Sarah Palin

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1837536,00.html

And profiles her in this week's magazine

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1838572,00.html