COVER

Scanxiety (Health Special)

Fear of a postcancer ritual

Mobile Alert (Health Special)

A new study fuels debate over cell phones and tumors

The Refuseniks (Health Special)

Why some cancer patients reject their doctor's advice

Check Your Charity! (Health Special)

There are too many lightweight nonprofits in cancer research

NATION

Let's Make a Deal (Nation)

The budget battle won't end without Mitch McConnell's O.K. And after months on the sidelines, the wily Republican is back at the table

Innovate Better (Worldview)

Everyone agrees it's key to America's future. But where do we focus innovation, and how do we fund it?

Now What? (Education)

Mortarboards and diplomas don't get you as far as they used to. These new graduates are in for a bumpy ride

ESSAY

LETTERS

WORLD

Deepening Divide (Features / World)

The Assad regime's brutal crackdown hasn't halted Syria's pro-democracy protests, but it may yet turn them into a sectarian conflict

Killing Fields (Features / World)

How Asia's growing appetite for traditional medicine is threatening Africa's rhinos

A Perilous Threat to Rhinos

There are two groups of people shooting rhinos in southern Africa today. TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr captures both

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Repro Madness (The Culture / Books)

Ann Patchett's thriller imagines a utopia of fertility

Jump Start (Dance)

The Cuban National Ballet leaps into a Stateside tour

PEOPLE

BRIEFING

Ghostwriter (Nation)

How to govern from two places at once? With the swipe of an autopen