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An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq.

  • Nir Rosen

The Trial of Ezra Nawi

A peace activist faces judgment in Israel.

  • David Shulman

View from the Mountaintop

Coal may not remain the cheapest source of electric power for much longer.

  • Richard Heinberg

Do the Right Thing

An anti-genocide policy that works.

  • Sarah Sewall

Development in Dangerous Places

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

  • Paul Collier
with responses from
  • Stephen D. Krasner
  • William Easterly
  • Larry Diamond
  • Edward Miguel
  • Mike McGovern
  • Nancy Birdsall

United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.

  • Claudio Lomnitz
  • Rafael Sánchez

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The Memory That Will Not Die

Exhuming the Spanish Civil War

  • Julius Purcell

Dispatch from the Hebron Hills

For the last seven weekends in a row, violent settlers from neighboring Bat Ayin have attacked the Palestinian farmers here.

  • David Shulman

Beating Bad Karma

Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change.

  • Abbas Milani

Peace Out

The decline of Israel’s progressive movement.

  • Helena Cobban

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Accidental Billionaire

How do we decide what is individual talent and what is luck?

  • Claude S. Fischer

Private Arrangements

“Recognizing sharia” in England

  • John R. Bowen

Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?

  • Evgeny Morozov

A Tribe Apart

Afghan elites face a corrosive past.

  • Barnett R. Rubin

Common Cause

Real help for Iranian democrats.

  • Abbas Milani

The Mourner’s Hope

Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk, on grief and the foundations of justice.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Not Free at Any Price

Why I switched to the One Laptop Per Child—and why I dropped it.

  • Richard M. Stallman

Bad News

Authenticity and the South Asian political novel.

  • Amitava Kumar

The Rising Tide

Time to adapt to climate change.

  • Michael D. Mastrandrea
  • Stephen H. Schneider

Every Last Drop

Managing our way out of the water crisis.

  • Frank R. Rijsberman

Our Daily Bread

Without public investment, the food crisis will only get worse.

  • Rosamond Naylor
  • Walter Falcon

History Matters

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians

  • Joseph Levine

Intimate Revenge: Writing the Troubles

The Big Man of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley, has died.

  • Roger Boylan
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