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Development in Dangerous Places

If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow

Paul Collier

With responses from Stephen D. Krasner, William Easterly, Larry Diamond, Edward Miguel, Mike McGovern, and Nancy Birdsall. Paul Collier responds.


State of the Nation

How to vote (and what for)

Stephen Ansolabehere

Essays

United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela. Also read the authors' web-only response to comments on the original article.
Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez

The Memory That Will Not Die

Exhuming the Spanish Civil War
Julius Purcell

Cyber-Scare

The exaggerated fears over digital warfare. Also read the author's web-only follow-up in light of recent “cyber-attacks”.
Evgeny Morozov

The Best Hope–Still?

Prospects for a two-state solution
Jeremy Pressman

Dispatch from the Hebron Hills

Activists challenge settlers and soldiers at an illegal Israeli outpost — web only
David Shulman

Peace Out

The decline of Israel's progressive movement
Helena Cobban

Beating Bad Karma

Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change — web only
Abbas Milani

New Fiction Forum

Canceled

Jessica Treglia

Freedom

Amy Waldman

Between the Devil and the Deep Sea

Colin Dayan

On Film

Sound Barrier

Joe Wright’s The Soloist
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Big Talkers

Frederick Seidel’s and Bernadette Mayer’s poetic monologues
Raymond McDaniel

Double Gesture

Lars Gustafsson’s A Time in Xanadu and Fredrik Nyberg’s A Different Practice
Robert Archambeau

Microreviews

Fanny Howe
Susan Wheeler
Darcie Dennigan
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
Michael Dumanis
Marie Étienne
Cecily Parks
Marie Howe
Ron Silliman
Reginald Shepherd

Poems

What so ever you

Michele Glazer

Life After Rugby

Eileen G’Sell

Dear Final Journey,

Lynn Emanuel

What Can Be Known

Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman

Little Evidence of the Bee’s

Zach Savich

The Adult Longeing Guide

Zach Savich

Road Rising Into Deep Grass

Gretchen Steele Pratt

I Eat My Television

Robert Murdock

Little Idea

Michael Loughran

Mercy

Laura Kasischke

Geosmin

Lucas Farrell

The Spring Campaigns

Julio Martínez Mesanza (translated by Don Bogen)

Poet's Sampler: Farid Matuk

Introduced by Noah Eli Gordon



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