The Editors
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'The Worst Place' How to exorcise Rwandan ghosts in Congo.
TRB From Washington
Jonathan Chait
Scared Yet? The Wall Street Journal's punctuation fetish.
Michelle Cottle
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Obama's team of grinds.
Michael Crowley
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Who is Jim Jones?
Jed Perl
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How the new president can boost high culture.
Jacob S. Hacker
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Medicine is the best stimulus.
Alan Brinkley
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Learning from FDR's mistakes.
Jonathan Cohn
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Auto Destruct The tragic nobility of Detroit.
Eve Fairbanks
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Children of the Revolution
House Republicans, now even nuttier.
Jason Zengerle
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Going Under
A doctor's downfall, and a profession's struggle with addiction.
Stanley Kauffmann
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FILMS Insights A small, trenchant Holocaust film; Meryl Streep as Mother Courage; indomitable dust.
Keith Christiansen
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ESSAY Why Mantegna Matters Amid all the light of the Renaissance, one painter made beauty out of darkness.
Robert Alter
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BOOKS Only A Man Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet by Nili Scharf Gold
Yehuda Amichai
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POEM The Rustle of History's Wings, As They Used to Say, translated by Leon Wieseltier
Leon Aron
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BOOKS The Prop Of The Knout Russian Orthodoxy
Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia
by John Garrard and Carol Garrard
Richard A. Posner
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BOOKS Modesty And Power Law and Judicial Duty
by Philip Hamburger
Istvan Deak
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BOOKS When Barbarism Won Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
Geri Doran
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POEM I, Putative
Tim Wu
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BOOKS The New New Media The Future of the Internet (And How to Stop It) by Jonathan Zittrain
Washington Diarist
Leon Wieseltier
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Important People
Cover Photo by Julia Fullerton-Batten
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