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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.
Nir Rosen reports on Iraq’s descent into chaos; Elaine Scarry on military honor; Anatol Lieven on using American force wisely.
Charles Johnson on John Champlin Gardner; Marc Gaba wins the 9th annual poetry contest
Kerry Emanuel leads a forum on climate change; responses and proposals for action from Nicholas Stern, David G. Victor, Judy Layzer and others.
Lawrence Rosen revisits Edward Said’s critique of Orientalism; Vivian Gornick discusses reading H. G. Wells; Maureen McLane on the sex-ed wars; new poems by John Ashbery.
Nancy Birdsall, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer, and others look at the question, “What helps poor countries grow?”; Sarah Chayes on the future of Afghanistan; Alex Byrne on morality and the brain
A short story by Peter Mountford; poems by Jorie Graham, H. L. Hix, Susan Stewart, and Geoffrey G. O’Brien; poetry criticism by Barbara K. Fischer and Cal Bedient.
Akbar Ganji on changing Iran from within; Hans Blix on global arms control; a look at religion in politics by Catherine Tumber; Nicholas Schmidle on Islamism in Bangladesh.
Fiction contest winner Pama Viswanathan; Katie Peterson on Tomas Tranströmer.
Abbas Milani and Akbar Ganji on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; William Hogeland explores the troubling embrace of Alexander Hamilton; Colin Dyan on prisoners' right to read.
A short story by Charles Johnson; Elizabeth Willis wins the tenth annual poetry contest; criticism by Reginald Shepherd; a poem by John Updike.
Glenn Loury asks “Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?”; Robert Blecher and Jeremy Pressman on Israel’s existential crisis; George Scialabba on the curse of modernity; Anatol Lieven on “realist” foreign policy.
A short story by Patricia Engel; Charles Johnson on artistic passion; Forrest Gander on John Ashbery.
Owen Fiss, Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Jenny Martinez on international criminal courts; Nir Rosen examines the plight of displaced Iraqis.
Fiction by K. J. Bishop; poems by Mary Jo Bang and Roberto Bolaño; Alan Stone reviews Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn.
After Prison: Bruce Western on reentry; Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Mary Lyndon Shanley on incarcerated fathers; Robert Perkinson on the history of the prison boom. Andrew Bacevich on the boken pentagon; Elias Khoury on justice in Palestine.
Marjorie Perloff on Vladimir Mayakovsky; Charles Bernstein reviews Alan Filreis; poems by John Koethe and Allan Peterson.
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