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.

Paul Collier leads the forum on global poverty and intervention, with responses from Stephen D. Krasner, Nancy Birdsall, and William Easterly.

Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez on anti-Semitism in Venezuela; Evgeny Morozov on the exaggerated fear of cyber-warfare; the deline of Israel's progressive movement; fiction from Jessica Treglia, winner of the 16th annual short story contest, and from Amy Waldman and Colin Dayan.

Joseph H. Carens leads a forum on immigration, with responses from T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Mae M. Ngai, and Douglas S. Massey.

James Forman, Jr. on the boundaries of school reform; Dean Baker on health care economics; Nancy MacLean on what faith-based activism can do for labor; Stephen Burt on poetry's "new thing."

Martha Nussbaum on Islamic liberalism under fire in India; John Bowen on “recognizing sharia” in England; Evgeny Morozov on whether the Internet spreads democracy; Catherine Tumber on green prospects for smaller cities.

National poetry month: essays by Adrienne Rich, Honor Moore, and Maureen McClane; poems by Anne Carson, Terrance Hayes, Linda Gregerson, Mary Jo Bang, and more.

Fixing the Economy: Dean Baker on market regulation, Robert Pollin’s proposals for a financial regulatory system, Jeff Madrick on big government.

David Cole on closing Guantánamo; Barnett R. Rubin on Afghan elites; Abbas Milani on democracy in Iran; a poem by Rae Armantrout.