Forum
Can Technology End Poverty?
Kentaro Toyama — with responses from:
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE, DEAN KARLAN, IGNACIO MAS, NATHAN EAGLE, JENNY C. AKER, CHRISTINE ZHENWEI QIANG, EVGENY MOROZOV, AND ARCHON FUNG.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
State of the Nation: Urban Legends
William Rankin
Dispatch: Sturdy Green Thread
Sara Irani
The Miners: Kept Underground in Evin Prison
Sara Irani
Dispatch: Iraq’s Lost Generation
Nir Rosen
Dispatch: The Worst of the Worst
Lance Tapley
Dispatch: Making Muslim Democracies
Jan-Werner Müller
Dispatch: Books After Amazon
Onnesha Roychoudhuri
Karlan’s Court: Acting Out
Pamela S. Karlan
Midterm Postmortem
Eric McGhee, Brendan Nyhan, John Sides
The Deficit Commission’s Parallel Universe
Dean Baker
Books & Ideas
Suppose You’re an Idiot
Roger Boylan
A Question of Character: Claude S. Fischer’s Made in America
David M. Kennedy
Fiction
Hitting Budapest
NoViolet Bulawayo
On Film
All Of Humanity: King Lear On Screen<
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
The Raw and the Cooked: Ben Lerner’s Mean Free Path and Lisa Robertson’s R Boat
Christopher Schmidt
Catch the Dying Light: Mary Jo Bang’s The Bride of E
Lindsay Turner
The Side of Love: Dan Chiasson’s Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon
Piotr Florczyk
Microreviews
Poems
Poetry Contest Winner
Anthony Caleshu, selected by Peter Gizzi
Visitation
Eamon Grennan
Pursuit of Happiness
Peter Cooley
One Dispensation
Elizabeth Whittlesey
The Four Questions
Seth Landman
This is Serious Business
Jason W. Selby
From Which Mortar Cities Rise
G.C. Waldrep
The Breakfast in Heidelberg Series
Caitlin Doyle
Instantly I Was Love
Amanda Nadelberg
How the Other Half Files Its Teeth
Dan Pinkerton
