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Mothers Who Care Too Much


What feminists get wrong about family, work, and equality
Nancy J. Hirschmann

With responses from Shannon Hayes, Robin West, Lisa Dodson, Melody Berger, Ann Friedman, Mona Harrington, Lane Kenworthy, and Ann L. Alstott. Nancy J. Hirschmann responds.


Big Pharma, Bad Medicine


How corporate dollars corrupt research and education
Marcia Angell

With responses from Adriane Fugh-Berman, David Korn, Howard Brody, Dan W. Brock, Emma D'Arcy, Suzanne Gordon, and David Bollier. Marcia Angell responds. A letter from Frank Britt and Marissa Seligman.
Thomas P. Stossel on the value of academic-industry relationships.


Something from Nothing


U.S. strategy in Afghanistan


Nir Rosen

With responses by Helena Cobban, Syed Saleem Shahzad, J. Alexander Thier, Andrew Exum, Aziz Hakimi, and Andrew J. Bacevich. Nir Rosen responds. Web-only: Richard W. Miller, and Rajan Menon continue the discussion.


Development in Dangerous Places

If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow.

Paul Collier

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


Closing Guantánamo

The problem of preventive detention

David Cole

With Web-only responses by Joanne Mariner, Eric Posner and Robert Chesney


The Rules


Government’s proper role in the market


Eliot Spitzer

With responses by Dean Baker, Robert Johnson, and Sarah Binder, Andrew Gelman, and John Sides. Eliot Spitzer responds.


Investigative Special

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq
Nir Rosen

A Death in Texas

Profits, poverty, and immigration converge
Tom Barry

God, The Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?
Tara McKelvey


Stories and Stats


The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers


Andrew Gelman and John Sides

With responses by Rick Perlstein, Richard Johnston and Emily Thorson, Mark Schmitt, and Michael C. Dawson. Gelman and Sides respond.


The Case for Amnesty

Time erodes the state’s right to deport

Joseph Carens

Read responses in this forum by our panel of immigration experts, including T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Marc Rosenblum, Mae M. Ngai, Roberto Suro, Carol M. Swain, and others.