Fog of War
Volume 36, Number 3, Fall 2009
Front Section
Bursting at the Seams
IAN MERRIFIELD
Drug incarcerations, prison overcrowding, and community corrections
Escaping the Poppy Field
IVANA DJAK, NEIL PATEL
American anti-opium efforts in Afghanistan
The Source of the Problem
ANGELA PRIMBAS
Confronting prescription drug abuse
Decriminalization in Massachusetts
MATTHEW S. MILLER, KATHERINE LEE
Quelling the qualms over Proposition 2
Violence in Mexico
CARLOS BORTONI
America’s part in the fight against against drug cartels
Drugs and the New Federalism
JOHN HE
States gaining voice on drug laws
A Taboo Solution
JEREMY PATASHNIK, CATIE WILLIAMS
The silenced economics of legalization
Cracking the Disparity
JEFFREY KALMUS
How the debate over crack cocaine sentencing has moved beyond race
Feeding the Media Frenzy
ERIC BAUM, JIMMY WU
How drug policy made in response to crisis misses the mark
Reassesing Plan Colombia
PEYTON MILLER
Turning from the coca fields to the cocaine market
Broken State Governments
ALEXANDER CHEN
Chaos reigns as states try to budget in the recession
Conditional Solidarity
CATHERINE COOK
Trouble ahead if Democrats cannot deliver to labor
Blind Justice?
PETER BOZZO, KATIE ZAVADSKI
The Supreme Court’s decisions last term reveal a trend toward color-blindness
Risky Business
COLIN SHANNON
The problem of too-big-to-fail
Worst-Case Scenarios
ETHAN LYLE
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, and where we stand today
Business Rules
SAM BARR
Roberts Court prepares possibly momentous case on corporate speech
How the Taliban Came Back
FARHA FAISAL
And what it may mean for the U.S. strategic dilemma
In Need of Assistance
JONATHAN YIP, TOM DAN
Reforming foreign aid at home
Chafing at the Bonds
TIFFANY WEN, JULIAN GEWIRTZ
A positive official tone masks U.S.-China tensions
What’s Changed in Iran?
VICTORIA HARGIS
Inside the rise of the Revolutionary Guard
Republic, Refreshed
CHRIS DANELLO
Cass Sunstein meets the Internet
God and Man in the 21st Century
CAMERON JOHNSTONE
Surveying the revival of religion
Love Thy Neighbor’s God
ROBERT LONG
How religions learned to get along
High Crimes
HENRY SHULL
America and her drug problem
Unreserved Action
BEN WILCOX
The Fed and the crisis of 2007
A Policy of Protection
STEPHANIE LOUIS
Brett McGurk on American counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan
A Local Perspective in Afghanistan
BEN WILCOX
Rory Stewart on the current state of politics in Afghanistan
Light Rail Policy Picks Up Speed
ANTHONY DEDOUSIS
Michael Dukakis on the politics and potential growth of high speed public rail
A Cosmopolitan Capital City
ZOEY OROL
Howard W. Gutman on Brussels and working for President Obama