Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

Republicans’ 2012 Electoral Problem

Stephen Ansolabehere

Essays

A Beautiful Place

Ahmed Moor

How To Write About Africa

Anna Clark

Like a Dog

Colin Dayan

Me, Inc.

Pamela S. Karlan

Europeans Against Multiculturalism

Political Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win Votes
John R. Bowen

All About Obama

A President Without an Ideology?
Mark Schmitt

On the March

Hungary’s Ascendant Right Wing
Paul Hockenos

Square Dance

Agnes de Mille’s Beloved Community
Megan Pugh

A Too-Modest Proposal

A Palestinian Peacemaker Gives Up on Politics
Avner Inbar and Assaf Sharon

Civil Rights Rollback

The Significance of Walmart v. Dukes
David Freeman Engstrom—Web only

The Morning After Marriage

Should the gay community really be saying “I do”?
Jason Anthony—Web only

Thinking in an Emergency

An interview with Elaine Scarry
David V. Johnson—Web only

Who Represents the Poor?

The Limits of the NGO Movement in Global Development
Pranab Bardhan—Web only

Underground in Beirut

A Syrian Activist Continues the Fight From Lebanon
Josh Wood—Web only

What’s in a Name?

In defense of the use of pseudonyms online
Jillian C. York—Web only

Leadership, Free to Lead

A forum on campaign-finance reform
Gov. Charles “Buddy” Roemer

With responses from Adam Bonica, Richard Briffault, Sheila Krumholz, Michael J. Malbin, and Warren Rudman. Gov. Roemer replies.—Web only

Fiction

Aura Estrada Fiction Contest
Aviator on the Prowl

Kalpana Narayanan
Selected by Francisco Goldman

On Film

Bin Laden: the Movie

The Director of The Hurt Locker Takes On the 9/11 Mastermind
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

In the Details

Allan Peterson’s As Much As
Stephen Burt

When That Becomes This

Comparison in Politics and Poetry
David Micah Greenberg

Microreviews

Ian Pindar
G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher
Rob Schlegel
Christian Hawkey
Michele Glazer

Poems

Poet’s Sampler

Rodney Jack
Introduced by Cate Marvin and Wayne Johns

Evening in the Company Of Undecided Birds

Cal Bedient

From Love, Imagination and So Tender Beauty

Sarah Sarai

Passage

Alex Dimitrov

The Gift Shop

Cate Peebles

ROTC Kills

John Koethe

America! America!

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

Song for Sonoma

Tess Taylor

From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas:Paradox

Brian Blanchfield

If Hounds

Genevieve Burger-Weiser