One World, Under God
Why did early Christians preach tolerance and brotherhood? Perhaps because globalization is God's will
April 2009
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Features
China's Way Forward
With the global economy in meltdown, China is in big trouble—in the short term. But the longer-term threat is to America
The Case Against Breast-Feeding
It's not nearly as beneficial as the popular literature suggests. Is it worth the cost of a mother's career, sanity, and independence?
Disassembly Line
Closing an auto factory is almost as complicated as building cars
India’s New Face
Meet the pro-business anti-Muslim extremist who could one day be the leader of the world’s largest democracy
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Lisa Vander Muelen/Corbis California Burning
Post-fire life in Santa Barbara will never be the same—or will it?
Bob Daemmrich/Corbis Prophet Without Honor
Among the polygamists in Hildale and Colorado City
Tom Hauck/Icon SMI/Corbis Million Dollar Basketball Babies
Should the sport’s top prospects go to college? Should they even go to high school?
Cannabusiness
Assembling a hydro hut, buying a gun safe, cleaning up after neighborhood dogs—the ABC’s of opening a pot franchise
Evan Abramson The Mugabe of the Andes?
Why President Evo Morales’s racial politics in Bolivia may backfire
Veronika Lukasova Cocktails of the Past
The subtle art of raising long-deceased spirits from the dead
Miikka Anttila Saunas and Silence
In the countryside of Finland, solitude is a national pastime
Television Outside the Box
Are you ready for 3-D TV?
Books
Theirs Truly: The Lowell-Bishop Letters
The letters between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are one of the great poetic correspondences of all time—and became the real essence of their relationship
Quickhoney The Revenge of Karl Marx
What the author of Das Kapital reveals about the current economic crisis
Cover to Cover
Playboy as parable; post-secular Sundays; genetic aesthetics; lax Britannica; and more
Columns
Left: Shaun Heasley/Reuters/Corbis; Right: Adam Hunger/Reuters/Corbis Macroegonomics
Economic policy makers thought they had tamed the business cycle. Not quite. Let’s hope their hubris doesn’t get in the way of our economic recovery
Julia Ames Don’t Fear the Reaper
Learning to love the slasher-film renaissance
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Jason Ford/Heart Agency What's Your Problem?
Food for the apocalypse, and other advice
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Quick Study
The freest market; lottery melancholy
