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Woman to Woman in Afghanistan

Female Engagement Teams join the counterinsurgency.

Ann Jones

Killing Reconciliation

How brutal raids are sabotaging the political strategy the US claims to support in Afghanistan.

Jeremy Scahill

Judging the War Crimes Tribunal

The International Criminal Court has had setbacks—but it’s already having an impact.

Barbara Crossette

Time for a Cease-Fire

Can talks with the Taliban end the war in Afghanistan? If Obama wants to find out, then he must halt combat operations, night raids and drone attacks.

The Editors

(G)rêve général(e) in France

The French Parliament has passed President Sarkozy’s controversial law raising the retirement age, and nationwide protests against the measure have eased. But the struggle against austerity measures is far from over.

Agnès Catherine Poirier

Noted.

Ryan Devereaux on what WikiLeaks tell us about war crimes, Jeff Biggers on coalfield justice and Kate Murphy on discrimination against women in the workplace

Various Contributors

The Rosenberg Variations

A new book concludes that it was really Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s in-laws who illegally passed classified information on the atomic bomb to the Russians. Does the news still matter?

Victor Navasky

Postcards From Cape Town

Traveling in South Africa, you learn that one great thing about the country is that no one engages in small talk.

Katha Pollitt

To Whom Apologies Are Really Due

Ginni Thomas’s insistence that Anita Hill apologize is an apt metaphor for the long history of blaming black women for social ills.

Melissa Harris-Perry

What Virginia Thomas Was Saying to Anita Hill

Standing by her man.

Calvin Trillin

The Rosenberg Variations

A new book concludes that it was really Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s in-laws who illegally passed classified information on the atomic bomb to the Russians. Does the news still matter?

Victor Navasky

Shelf Life

Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, Robert Darnton’s Poetry and the Police, Jeremy Harding’s Mother Country

John Palattella

The Pirate’s Prophet: On Lewis Hyde

Is the cultural commons a viable alternative to the copyright regime, or does it risk turning culture into a consumerist slum?

David Wallace-Wells

Ibex Have Evolved for Life at the Top

Lisa Olstein

The Impasse: On Martin Solares

The Black Minutes, a nuanced neo-noir, conveys how narco-violence has leached the Mexican justice system of meaning.

Natasha Wimmer

In Our Orbit: Dean’s Way

Ari Berman’s Herding Donkeys shows how Howard Dean’s unsuccessful bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination was the foundation for Barack Obama’s victory in 2008.

Kate Murphy

Letters

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Puzzle No. 1607

This puzzle originally appeared in the November 15, 1975, issue.

Frank W. Lewis