Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

Know Where You Stand

Anthony Fowler and Michele Margolis

Essays

Juárez Rebounds . . . Sort Of

Sarah Hill

The Leisure Gap

Claude S. Fischer

Forty Years After Watergate

Pamela S. Karlan

War Is Betrayal

Persistent Myths of Combat
Chris Hedges

The Checkpoint

Terror, Power, and Cruelty
Oded Na’aman

Natural Woman

Why Motherhood Returned to the Center of Women’s Lives
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Forgetful Pleasures

Michel Houellebecq’s Exciting Tale of Boredom
Marta Figlerowicz

Serbia’s Brokeback Mountain

Srđan Dragojević’s The Parade
Paul Hockenos—Web only

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Toward a Realistic World Heritage List
Andrew Blackwell—Web only

The Search for Decolonial Love
Part I, Part II

An Interview with Junot Díaz
Paula M.L. Moya—Web only

“Obamacare” Is Constitutional, But ...

Pam Karlan on the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling
David V. Johnson—Web only

Men’s Tennis Is More Interesting Than Women’s

But It Doesn’t Have To Be
David V. Johnson—Web only

The New Religious Intolerance

An Interview with Martha Nussbaum
David V. Johnson—Web only

Stockton Goes Bust

A Municipal Bankruptcy, in Pictures
Susie Cagle—Web only

Remembering Trouillot

Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949–2012)
Colin Dayan—Web only

Names, Trains, and Corporate Deals

Why Public Transit Shouldn’t Sell Naming Rights
Frank Pasquale—Web only

The Well

Amy Benson—Web only

I, Too, Have Messed with LIBOR

Toying with the Immutable Laws of Finance
Omer Rosen—Web only

Undoing the Wrack

Why We Need Campaign-Finance Reform
Gore Vidal—Web only

The White Correspondent’s Burden

We Need to Tell the Africa Story Differently
Jina Moore—Web only

This Machine Helps Fascists

Split on Greek Left Aids Nationalist Golden Dawn Party
Ari Paul—Web only

Home for the Eid

Ramadan in Cairo and Istanbul
Ahmed Moor—Web only

The Future of U.S. Health Care

Andrea Louise Campbell—Web only

Fiction

Winner of the Aura Estrada Short Story Contest:
The Piano

Alexandra Thom
selected by Samuel R. Delany

On Film

Arcadia for the Aged

John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Adam Fitzgerald
introduced by Joe Weil

Poetry Changed the World

Injury and the Ethics of Reading
Elaine Scarry

Amen

Ariana Reines’s Erotic Soul
B.K. Fischer

Microreviews

Books by Deborah Landau, Brandon Shimoda, Jeffrey Skinner, Elizabeth Willis, and Harmony Holiday

The Practice of Everyday Life

Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas
Christopher Schmidt—Web only

Poems

Waiting for Tear Gas

Tung-Hui Hu

It Is the Perpetual Today

Virginia Konchan

Essential Difference

Kiki Dimoula
translated by Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lesser

Cash for Gold

Ernest Hilbert

To the White Woman on the Plane Who Doesn’t Understand My Discomfort When She Asks If She Can Touch My Hair

Torrie Valentine

After Paradise Lost

Alison Powell

Dewseaville

Daniel Tiffany