2015/4
Comment: Hi, Robot
What's Inside the New Issue
Gideon Rose
Comment: The Robots Are Coming
How Technological Breakthroughs Will Transform Everyday Life
Daniela Rus
Comment: Will Humans Go the Way of Horses?
Labor in the Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Comment: Same as It Ever Was
Why the Techno-optimists Are Wrong
Martin Wolf
Comment: The Coming Robot Dystopia
All Too Inhuman
Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
Comment: The Next Safety Net
Social Policy for a Digital Age
Nicolas Colin and Bruno Palier
Essay: A Problem From Heaven
Why the United States Should Back Islam’s Reformation
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Essay: Islamic Scripture Is Not the Problem
And Funding Muslim Reformers Is Not the Solution
William McCants
Essay: Time to Negotiate in Afghanistan
How to Talk to the Taliban
James Dobbins and Carter Malkasian
Essay: The Long Road to Animal Welfare
How Activism Works in Practice
Wayne Pacelle
Essay: The Death and Life of the Two-State Solution
How the Palestinians May Eventually Get Their State
Grant Rumley and Amir Tibon
Essay: The Decline of International Studies
Why Flying Blind Is Dangerous
Charles King
Essay: China’s Soft-Power Push
The Search for Respect
David Shambaugh
Essay: Go East, Young Oilman
How Asia Is Shaping the Future of Global Energy
Michael Levi
Essay: Improving Humanitarian Aid
How to Make Relief More Efficient and Effective
David Miliband and Ravi Gurumurthy
Essay: Regime Change for Humanitarian Aid
How to Make Relief More Accountable
Michael Barnett and Peter Walker
Review Essay: The Facts of Life
Sex Ed Around the World
Jill Lepore
Review Essay: The Plunder of Africa
How Everybody Holds the Continent Back
Howard W. French
Review Essay: Holier Than Thou
Politics and the Pulpit in America
James Morone
Review Essay: Hired Guns
How Private Military Contractors Undermine World Order
Allison Stanger
Review Essay: What Caused the Crash?
The Political Roots of the Financial Crisis
Athanasios Orphanides
Response: Fear of Flying
Are Drones Dangerous?