ANALYSIS
Senegal’s Resilient Democracy
Alfred Stepan, Etienne Smith

ASIA WATCH
Scandal Erodes China’s Soft Power
Frank Ching

COMMENTARY
U.S., China, India: A Plague on All Houses
Pranab Bardhan

ECONOMIC WATCH
Corporations vs. Regulations: No Contest
Isolda Agazzi

EDUCATION WATCH
India’s Broken Schools
Julissa Milligan, Sadanand Dhume

ELECTION
Tweeting to Victory
Anthony Welcher

ENVIRONMENT IN FLUX
Jamaica’s Rich Biodiversity
Zadie Neufville

HUMAN WELFARE
Latin America: World’s “Most Unequal Region”
Marianela Jarroud

MIDDLE EAST IN FOCUS
Israel and Iran at Dangerous Crossroads
Scott Bobb, Michael Lipin

PEACE PERSPECTIVE
Syrian Elections a “Farce”
Sinem Cengiz

 

HOBBY
Antique Tweaking
Turkan Uymaz
For Ultralight Pilots, It’s Like Floating on Air
Mary Saner

HOME
The Key to a Stellar Home Office
Michele Lerner

TRAVEL
Armenia: Christianity’s forgotten cradle
Ruth Hill

REVIEWS
“Annihilating” Time and Distance: Railroads and the Civil War
Wes Vernon
The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Makings of Modern America
William G. Thomas

The Debt Bomb
W. James Antle III
The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America
Sen. Tom A. Coburn, M.D., with John Hart

All’s Fair in Economics
Nicole Russell
The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise
Arthur C. Brooks

Jefferson’s Garden
Martin Rubin
A Rich Spot of Earth: Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello
Peter J. Hatch

The Presidents Club
John R. Coyne Jr.
The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity
Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

Rathenau: German and Jewish in the Early 1900s
Martin Rubin
Walter Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman
Shulamit Volkov

Who Killed Vincent Van Gogh?
Jeremy Lott
Sacre Bleu: A Comedy D’Art
Christopher Moore

The Last Great Senate
Claude R. Marx
The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis
Ira Shapiro

CRAFT & DESIGN
Plates of Paper, Ships of Porcelain
Merve Tuncel

EXHIBITION
Frohawk Two Feathers: We Buy Gold, We Buy Everything, We Sell Souls
Tricia Robson
Art of Another Kind at the Guggenheim
Betsy Ennis, Lauren Van Natten, Samantha Weiss
Lucy R. Lippard and the Conceptual Art Movement
Sally Williams

POETRY
An Evening of Poetic Inspiration
Russell Lawrence

THEATER
Theater as a Prevention Tool
Danilo Valladares

IMPACTS
Plastic Waste Changing the Face of World Oceans
Stephen Leahy

NATURE WALK
Big Herbivores Do Big Things for Biodiversity in Tropical Forests
SINC Team

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT
Experiments in Reading Yield Engrossing Results
Jeff Grabmeier

SCIENCE AND VALUES
Why Do People Choke When the Stakes Are High?
Marcus Woo

SECRETS OF NATURE
Why Much of the Crude Didn’t Hit the Gulf Coast in 2010
Douglas Jerolmack

FOLK WISDOM
Native Andean Women Weave a Future in Bolivia
Jenny Cartagena

PEOPLES
Discovery at al-Magar
Peter Harrigan
Kyrgyzstan’s Kidnapped Brides
Azita Ranjbar
A Living Museum in Brazil
Fabiana Frayssinet

TRANSPLANTATION
Deserting Refugees in the Sahara
Rebecca Murray

CALENDAR
Civil War Sesquicentennial: 1861-65 / 2011-15
Compiled by William S. Connery

REMEMBERING HISTORY
Baseball During the Civil War
Martha Boltz

TALES OF FIRE AND STRIFE
Civil War Era Magicians, Part III
Dean Carnegie and William Connery

VOICES FROM THE PAST
Emancipation Sentiment in South Carolina, circa 1845
Bernhard Thuersam