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December 2009 Issue
December 2009 Cover
Hanna Rosin asks, Did Christianity cause the crash?; David Dobbs on the science of success; Philip Caputo on Mexico's drug wars; Benjamin Schwarz selects the twenty-five best books of the year; Sandra Tsing Loh on being a bad mother; and much more. View Magazine
  • Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
    Hanna Rosin
  • The Science of Success
    David Dobbs
  • The Fall of Mexico
    Philip Caputo
  • On the Brink
  • How Einstein Divided America's Jews
    Walter Isaacson
  • The Trial of Thomas Lubanga
    Adam Hochschild
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December 2009 Issue
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