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Daniel Richman leads a forum on the conflict between national security and civil rights, with responses from Bob Barr, Corey Robin, and others; Christine J. Walley explains Tanzania’s people’s park; Benjamin Paloff on Bruno Schulz.
Jennifer Howard on fantasy fiction; a short story by Emily Fridlund; Zack Finch on Marjorie Welish.
Stephen M. Walt leads a forum on American foreign policy with responses from Richard Falk, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Naomi Chazan, and others; Neta C. Crawford on the lasting policy distortions of the Cold War; Deborah Stone discusses the language of torture.
Stephen Burt on the collected poems of Donald Justice; poems by Honor Moore and James Longenbach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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