Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

Weak Tea

Stephen Ansolabehere
and James Snyder, Jr.

Essays

In Tahrir

Ahmed Moor

Known Unknowns

Basil Katz

Karlan’s Court

The Health Care Challenge Threatens All Regulation
Pamela S. Karlan

Securing Arizona

What Americans Can Learn From Their Rogue State
Tom Barry

Passing Through

Why the Open Web Is Worth Saving
Evgeny Morozov

How To Be Happy

The Ethics Of David Foster Wallace
Leland de la Durantaye

Into the Breach

China Miéville’s Other Reality
Henry Farrell

Capitol Insiders

Solidarity and Sleepovers in Madison
Leigh Elion—Web only

Protective Bargaining

How to Prevent the Labor Wars
Thomas A. Kochan—Web only

The “Illth” of Nations

Enlarging Our Sense of the Economy
David Bollier and Jonathan Rowe—Web only

Budgetary Hemlock

Nevada Seeks to Eliminate Philosophy
Todd Edwin Jones—Web only

Fiction

You Are Free

Danzy Senna

On Film

Drowned Out

Julie Taymor’s The Tempest
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Floating World

Maureen N. McLane’s Same Life and World Enough
Tess Taylor

Hello Kitty

Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg’s Gurlesque
B.K. Fischer

Synecdoche

Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City
Megan Levad

Microreviews

Edip Cansever
Christian Wiman
Samuel Amadon
David Morley
Anthony McCann

Poems

Five Poems

Mark Strand
Commentary by Nicholas Christopher

Hearing

Joshua Trotter

The Exile

Ben Mazer

Album, c. 1930

Marjorie Welish

Dear Crown

Michael Hansen

Monody and River Caskets

Diana S. Adams

The Witch

Elizabeth Willis

Heroisms

Dan Beachy-Quick—Web only