Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

The Brown Majority

Stephen Ansolabehere

Essays

Outing Iran

David William Turner

Poetry Fights Back

Shaheen Buneri

Big Brother Buys a GPS

Pamela S. Karlan

A World on Fire

Life and Death in a New Orleans Squat
Danelle Morton

No Parties, No Banners

The Spanish Experiment with Direct Democracy
Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza

Citizen Philosophers

Teaching Justice in Brazil
Carlos Fraenkel

Cheating Death

Philosophers Ponder the Afterlife
Alex Byrne

Not So Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Steven Pinker’s Good News
Claude S. Fischer

Touching Their Ancestors’ Hands

An Interview with Anne Makepeace
Jana Pickart—Web only

The Networked Era

An Interview with Michael Nielsen
Lindsey Gilbert—Web only

Digital Culture Wars

SOPA and the Fight for Control of Online Content
Frank Pasquale—Web only

The Return of Inequality

How the Occupy Movement Shifted Electoral Politics
Ari Paul—Web only

A Better Deal

Obama’s State of the Union Announces Populist Re-election Bid
David Biespiel—Web only

Messin’ with Texas

The Legal Wrangle over Redistricting
Samuel Issacharoff—Web only

The Soft Side of Regime Change

Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
with responses by Trita Parsi and Ali Ansari —Web only

The Holy Game

God Plays on Super Bowl Sunday
Jason Anthony—Web only

Blunt Instrument

Sanctions Don’t Promote Democratic Change
Natasha Bahrami and Trita Parsi—Web only

The Past is not Past

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
Jonathan Brater—Web only

Fiction

Summer of ’76

Phyllis Alexander

On Film

An Acquired Taste

Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Katy Lederer
Iris Cushing

The Suffering World

Poets Grieve
Katie Peterson

All Together Now

How Description Fosters Connection
Siobhan Phillips

Odd One Out

An Interview with Joan Houlihan
Sawnie Morris—Web only

Poems

The Bicameral Eyeball

John Ashbery

The Sound of It, Spring

Elizabeth Gramm

Some Novelties of Stagecraft

Matthew Gagnon

Toxic Assets

Sam Witt

Ambiguous Origins

Jack Boettcher

Boat

Spencer Short

[Ill Wind]

Jesse Lichtenstein

The State of Utah Is Shaped Like a Glove

Alina Gregorian

Dear Day,

Catherine Pierce

from Ay

Joan Houlihan—Web only