IDEAS
15 Ways to Fix the World
Privatize the seas. Welcome guest workers. Scrap the vice presidency. Teach teens to drink. And more.
Michael Bierut analyzes the world’s best and worst banknote designs
IDEAS: THE MIDDLE EAST
How Iran Could Save the Middle East
An unlikely alliance with Israel might bring peace to the region
IDEAS: ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Re-Engineering the Earth
New techniques can change the climate quickly and cheaply. Why are scientists afraid to mention them?
IDEAS: ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
The Elusive Green Economy
Barack Obama is preaching the gospel of clean energy. Can he succeed where Jimmy Carter failed?
IDEAS: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Dr. Doom Has Some Good News
Nouriel Roubini is a famous--and famously prescient--economic pessimist. So why is he smiling?
IDEAS: TECHNOLOGY
Get Smarter
Humans have survived the centuries by evolving into quick-witted creatures. Now technology and pharmacology provide a new boost to intelligence
PROFILE
Daredevil
William F. Buckley was a man of impulse, big words, and reckless candor. But he wasn’t a snob
GALLERY
Fall
GALLERY
Red, White, and Blue
GALLERY
Power
POETRY
Heaven
POETRY
Homily
ADVICE
What's Your Problem?
GOVERNMENT
Flight Risk
When a U.S. company ignored pilot warnings in Colombia, four Americans died, and three were taken captive
FOOD
Fixing Lunch
Tony Geraci is determined to get healthy food to the kids in Baltimore's public schools
TRAVEL
Where Birds Rule the Earth
In Russia’s vast far east, most of the people are gone, but feathered inhabitants are abundant
TECHNOLOGY
The Rating Game
The spread of Internet rankings and reviews is freeing consumers to focus on the decisions that matter
EDITOR'S CHOICE
California Dreamers
The latest volume of Kevin Starr’s history chronicles the triumph—and points toward the tragedy—of the Golden State’s Good Life
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
The author is ending her marriage. Isn’t it time you did the same?
Sandra Tsing Loh reports on her divorce from inside her new 10 x 10 foot U-Haul storage trailer
Lincoln’s Emancipation
The cruelty and degeneracy the future president was subjected to in his youth forged his iron will
Cover to Cover
A slacker’s miscellany; the long-haul lobby; wuthering Wordsworths; Vishnu anew; and more
MOVING PICTURES
Sex and the Single Wizard
The peculiar challenge of adapting Harry Potter for the screen
James Parker considers the incoherent enchantments of a scene from The Goblet of Fire
Michael Hirschorn talks to Bob Cohn about why the current age spells doom for Time and Newsweek, but not for The Economist
