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.
Michael D. Mastrandrea and Stephen H. Schneider on adapting to climate change; Martha Nussbaum on grief and Justice; Richard Stallman is no fan of One Laptop Per Child; William Hogeland delves into the public history of the Constituton.
South Asian political novels; listening to Jack Spicer.
Frank Rijsberman on water scarcity; Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon on the food crisis; Elaine Scarry argues for prosecuting Bush administration torturers.
Roger Boylan reads the literature of Ireland's "Troubles"; Robert von Hallberg on war poems; Colin Dayan on Aimé Césaire.
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