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July/August 2009

Paul Collier leads the forum on global poverty and intervention, with responses from Stephen D. Krasner, Nancy Birdsall, and William Easterly.

Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez on anti-Semitism in Venezuela; Evgeny Morozov on the exaggerated fear of cyber-warfare; the deline of Israel’s progressive movement; fiction from Jessica Treglia, winner of the 16th annual short story contest, and from Amy Waldman and Colin Dayan.

Forum

Development in Dangerous Places

Paul Collier — with responses from:

STEPHEN D. KRASNER, WILLIAM EASTERLY, LARRY DIAMOND, EDWARD MIGUEL, MIKE MCGOVERN, AND NANCY BIRDSALL.

Essays

State of the Nation: How to vote (and what for)

Stephen Ansolabehere

Beating Bad Karma: Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change

Abbas Milani

United by Hate: The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela

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 warfar

Evgeny Morozov

The Best Hope—Still? Prospects for a two-state solution

Jeremy Pressman

Peace Out: The decline of Israel’s progressive movement

Helena Cobban

Fiction

Between the Devil and the Deep Sea

Colin Dayan

On Film

Sound Barrier: Joe Wright’s The Soloist

Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Farid Matuk, introduced by Noah Eli Gordon

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

Poems

The Spring Campaigns

Julio Martínez Mesanza (translated by Don Bogen

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