In the forum, Kentaro Toyoma asks: can technology end poverty?; Nicholas Negroponte, Dean Karlan, Ignacio Mas, Archon Fung, and others respond.

Onnesha Roychoudhuri on Amazon's domination of book culture; Roger Boylan on Mark Twain's Autobiography; Jan-Werner Muller on Islam and the lessons of Christian Democracy; our poetry contest winner, Anthony Caleshu.

Lawrence Lessig leads a forum on Citizens United and the corruption of Congress; Will Wilkinson, David N. Bossie, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Rep. Donna F. Edwards, and others respond.

Tom Barry on Texas's out-of-control border security apparatus; Vivian Gornick on the tumultuous Tolstoy marriage; William Hogeland on the war between populists and liberals; poems by Mary Jo Bang and Arthur Vogelsang.

Nancy Hirschman leads a forum on the faults of "care feminisim"; Shannon Hayes, Robin West, Lisa Dodson, Melody Berger, and others respond.

Sarah Hill on how Juárez became the world's deadliest city; Evgeny Morozov on Clay Shirky's pseudo-intellectual Internet salesmanship; short stories by Samuel R. Delany and Goli Taraghi.

Marcia Angell leads a forum on how corporate dollars corrupt medical research and education; Adriane Fugh-Berman, David Korn, Emma D'Arcy, David Bollier, and others respond.

Tara McKelvey on Obama's goal of eliminating nuclear weapons, Luis Fernando Medina on Colombian democracy imperiled by violence, Evgeny Morozov discusses the relationship between digital storage and human memory; reviewing Charles Bernstein.

Eliot Spitzer leads a forum on government's proper role in the market; responses from Dean Baker, Robert Johnson, Sarah Binder, and others.

Can mobile phones can cause an economic miracle in Africa?; Colin Dayan on dead dogs, breed banning, and preemptive justice; Ned Block and Philip Kitcher on Darwin's secular critics; a poetry special including work by Jorie Graham, Adrienne Rich, and Carolyn Forché.

Nir Rosen leads a forum on U. S. strategy in Afghanistan; Andrew Bacevich, Helena Cobban, Andrew Exum, Aziz Hakimi, and others respond.

Dean Baker on too-big-to-fail; Nasser Hussain on counterinsurgency as colonialism; Islamophobia in Europe; Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura; a poem by Cathy Park Hong.

Tom Barry on the convergance of the immigrant crackdown, the war on drugs, for-profit prisons, and rural poverty in West Texas; Nir Rosen on Iraq's ugly peace; Tara McKelvey asks if religion is an obstacle to PTSD treatment in the military.

Vivian Gornick on Edward Carpenter; Evgeny Morozov on the limits of Wikipedia; a short story by Aura Estrada; John Gallaher wins the 12th annual poetry contest.

Noam Chomsky on failing neoliberal policies in the United States and the developing world; Andrew Gelman and John Sides take on the accepted wisdom on Obama’s victory, with responses from Rick Perlstein, Mark Schmitt, and Michael C. Dawson.

Fiction from Dorthe Nors; G.C. Waldrep on J. Robert Lennon’s Castle and Pieces for The Left Hand; Poems by Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Catie Rosemurgy, and more.