Claudio Lomnitz on Latin America's new left; Michael J. Piore and Andrew Schrank on the human costs of free markets; Mae Ngai on border control; Dalton Conley on Charles Murray and the end of the welfare state.

Susie Linfield on photography criticism; A short story from Yvonne Woon; poetry from Kate Hall and Hank Lazer.

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee leads a forum on how to fight global poverty, with responses from Jagdish Bhagwati, Robert H. Bates, Alice H. Amsden, Ruth Levine, and others.

Rebecca Saxe on "the wild child"; Laila Lalami revisits R.K. Narayan; poetry criticism by Marjorie Welish and Katie Peterson; a poem from Ben Lerner.

Greg Grandin on Hugo Chávez; Helena Cobban on Hamas; Stephen Glain on Egypt's Muslim Brothers.

Alex Byrne on the mind-body problem; Alan Stone on Brokeback Mountain; Andrée Greene on Colson Whitehead; poems by Katy Lederer.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi on the citizens of Porto Alegre; Nir Rosen discusses the roots of sectarian violence in Iraq; the end of the culture wars; Josiah Ober looks at what we can learn from Athens. Khaled Abou El Fadl on Osama bin Laden.

Poems by Geoffrey O'Brien, Matthew Zapruder, and Frank Bidart; criticism by Joyelle McSweeney; a short story by Deb Olin Unferth.

Barry Posen leads a forum exploring U. S. exit strategies from Iraq, with responses from then-Senator Joe Biden, former Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Senator Russ Feingold, and others; Jon D. Hansen and Adam Benforado explain how the Supreme Court makes justices more liberal; John Bowen looks at Islam and immigration in France; Dorothy Roberts on black nationalism.

A short story from D. S. Sulaitis; poems by Ales Debeljak, Dan Chelotti, and others.

Jill Quadagno, John Geyman, Ezekial J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs, and Barbara Starfield discuss reasons and ways to reform health care.

Alex Byrne on cognition and epistemology; John Crowley on Richard Hughes; Marjorie Perloff on the poetry of Paul Celan; the 8th annual poetry contest, judged by Mark Strand.

Our 30th Anniversary Issue, with a special forum on What's Hurting the Middle Class led by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi; Susie Linfield looks at photographs of the condemned; Rebecca Saxe on science and morality.

A short story by Ivelisse Rodriguez; poetry from Peter Gizzi and others; B. K. Fischer reviews Mary Jo Bang and Deborah Greger.

Immigration and work in the global economy: Jacqueline Bhabha on protecting rights, not borders; Jennifer Gordon on organizing workers across country lines; Joseph H. Carens on what we owe people who stay.

Howard Zinn on myths of American exceptionalism; Noam Chomsky explores the universals of language and rights; James Longebach on John Ashbery.