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.

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.

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.

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.

Albert J. Raboteau on Religion in American political and public life, Lew Daly on Bush's faith-based initiative, Mike Gecan on Democrats' perceived contempt for religion, Ari Lipman and Gary B. Nash on the dominance of evangelical Protestantism.

Adrienne Rich on June Jordan; Vivian Gornick on J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller; Poet's Sampler from Dorothea Lasky; the winner of the 12th annual short story contest, Lisa Chipongian.

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.

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.