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Putting Solutions on Trial

Impact Evaluation and the Millennium Villages Experiment in Africa

  • Michael A. Clemens

Feast and Famine

India is growing, but Indians are still starving.

  • Siddhartha Deb

Small Changes, Big Results

Behavioral Economics at Work in Poor Countries

  • Rachel Glennerster
  • Michael Kremer
with responses from
  • Diane Coyle
  • Eran Bendavid
  • Pranab Bardhan
  • José Gómez-Márquez
  • Chloe O’Gara
  • Jishnu Das & Shantayanan Devarajan & Jeffrey S. Hammer
  • Daniel N. Posner

Known Unknowns

Deliberations in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.

  • Basil Katz

In Tahrir

The Egyptian revolution, viewed from the center of Cairo.

  • Ahmed Moor

Sturdy Green Thread

Yearning for democracy in Iran

  • Sara Irani

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Iraq’s Lost Generation

The war’s human toll.

  • Nir Rosen

Making Muslim Democracies

The history of Christian Democracy provides reasons for optimism and lessons for the future in Turkey. 

  • Jan-Werner Müller

The Miners

Kept underground in Evin Prison. 

  • Sara Irani

Our Man in Guatemala

An eminent medical historian discusses two major, blatantly unethical studies the U.S. government conducted on syphilis patients in Guatemala and Alabama.

  • Susan Reverby

At War In Texas

Federal border policy is now effectively dictated by alarmist border-area sheriffs and politicians.

  • Tom Barry

Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods

Natural disaster is paving the way for the manmade variety.

  • Syed Saleem Shahzad

Zigzag Ice Dragon

A hike in Tibet

  • Matthew Fishbane

The War for Drugs

How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city.

  • Sarah Hill

Ending the Endless War

Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?

  • Luis Fernando Medina

Africa Calling

Can mobile phones make a miracle?

  • Jenny C. Aker
  • Isaac M. Mbiti

Past Forward

Coping with post–Cold War Romania.

  • Paul Hockenos

Remembering Haiti

In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake, an anthropologist reflects on his fieldwork in Haiti fifty years earlier.

  • Sidney W. Mintz

Whitewashing Haiti’s History

The world never forgave the slaves who freed themselves

  • Sidney W. Mintz

“Civilizing Haiti”

It is now eight days since an earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince.

  • Colin Dayan

Counterinsurgency’s Comeback

Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?

  • Nasser Hussain

Nothing To Fear

Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe.

  • John R. Bowen

All Bark, No Bite

The Decline of Germany’s Social Democrats

  • Clay Risen

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul.

  • Vivian Gornick
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