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Meeting the Demand
Every Last Drop
Managing our way out of the water crisis.
Frank R. Rijsberman
Our Daily Bread
Without public investment, the food
crisis will only get worse.
Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon
What is the Bush Doctrine and why does it matter?
The place of religion in public life
Michael Gecan
Albert J. Raboteau
Catherine Tumber
Electoral process reform
On abortion rights
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The Treacherous Medium
Why Photography Critics Hate Photography
Susie Linfield
essays
Presidential Crimes
Moving on is not an option
Elaine Scarry
History Matters
Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians
Joseph Levine
The Party's Over
A review of Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam's Grand New Party
Lew Daly
"They woke up in a rage."
An interview with Vivian Gornick on Philip Roth, feminism and her new book,
The Men In My Life
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Outside the Big Box
Who speaks for today's small businesses?
Nicole D. Kazee, Michael Lipsky,
and Cathie Jo Martin
Response from the President of the National Small Business Association
Todd O. McCracken
Bolt from the Blue
The promise and problems of Obama's faith-based plan
Lew Daly
The Gunslinger
John Bolton's Surrender is Not an Option
Stephen J. Stedman
Fault Lines
Inside Rumsfeld's Pentagon
Andrew J. Bacevich
From Theocracy to Democracy
Akbar Ganji's hopes for Iran
Interviewed by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
American Dreamers
Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history
William Hogeland
Breakout
Hamas and the end of the two-state solution
Helena Cobban
Read Cobban's June 26 interview with Mother Jones
The Unending War
Argentina's quest for justice
Sam Ferguson
The Bitter End
Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism
Kevin Mattson
On Borrowed Time
Urban decline moves to the suburbs
Michael Gecan
The Best of All Games
In a letter to a colleague, John Rawls reflects on baseball
John Rawls
poetry
Poets and the People
Reflections on solidarity during wartime
Robert von Hallberg
Out of Defeat
Aimé Césaire's miraculous words
Colin Dayan
The Crucified Hand
Frank Bidart's Watching the Spring Festival
Raymond McDaniel
Poet's Sampler: Ashley Capps
Introduced by Graham Foust
SPIT AND IMAGE
A Web-only special
Ashley Capps
First Counter–clockwise Canto of the Moebius Strip
John Kinsella
Acorn Duly Crushed
Heather Christle
When the President is Black
Marlys West
Elegy
Bruce Bond
Hwan’s Condition
James Shea
Exit Ovidian
Dean Young
The Mosquito Monocracy
Adam O. Davis
And I Do Desire Your Looking Back
’Annah Sobelman
It Never Goes Away
Sophie Cabot Black
Microreviews
Door to a Noisy Room
Feral
Tendril
The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century
Poetry and Adolescence
The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure
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Imagining the Enemy
A series of articles exploring fiction's potential as a tool of social and political
analysis in today's complex world. Supported by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Wordwatching–story
"Some jog, breasts and buttocks jiggling. Some treadmill, some bicycle . . . M. does word exercises."
Gay James
The End of Sexual Identity
The death and afterlife of the "gay novel"
Stacy D'Erasmo
We Laughed, We Cried
Flann O'Brien's Triumph
Roger Boylan
Gone–story
"Mirabelle and I began collecting the names of the dead girls in December. . ."
Danielle Lazarin
The Mirror
Imagining justice in Palestine
Elias Khoury
Justify the Enemy
Becoming human in South Africa
Zakes Mda
Desaliento–story
The winner of Boston Review's 15th annual fiction contest
Patricia Engel
The Last Time I Saw Junior–story
Dagoberto Gilb
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A special issue on incarcerated America
Reentry
Reversing mass imprisonment
Bruce Western
No Further Harm
Mary F. Katzenstein and Mary L. Shanley
Guarded Hope
Robert Perkinson
Is It Africa's Turn?
Progress in the world's poorest region
Edward Miguel
With responses by Robert Bates, Ken Banks, Olu Ajakaiye , Rosamond Naylor, David N. Weil, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Smita Singh, Paul Collier, and Rachel Glennerster; Miguel responds
Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It
How to meet the security threat
Jonathan Zittrain
With responses by Bruce M. Owen, Richard Stallman, Susan Crawford, David D. Clark, Roger A. Grimes, and Hal Varian; Zittrain responds
See Zittrain's appearance on The Colbert ReportEnding Urban Poverty
Introduction
What makes a troubled neighborhood?
Dalton Conley
The Inherited Ghetto
Patrick Sharkey
Neighborhood Matters
Stefanie DeLuca
Nukes, Democracy, and Iran
The View from Tehran
Akbar Ganji
Nuclear Freeze
Hans Blix
Carrots and Sticks
.R. Nicholas Burns
A Third Way
Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani
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