COVER

The New Greatest Generation (Nation)

A new kind of war meant a new set of skills. Now veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are bringing their leadership lessons home, where we need them most

EDITOR'S DESK

FEATURES

All the Candidates' Pork (Nation)

GOP presidential contenders want to cut federal spending. That wasn't always the case

Autism's Lone Wolf (Society)

Simon Baron-Cohen wants to know, Are 'autistic' traits a predictable outcome of new marriage patterns?

Scenes from A Revolution (World)

A clandestine journey into Syria reveals a once cowed people defying a brutal and stubborn regime. What would it take for this to end?

BRIEFING

THE CULTURE

Memory Games (Books)

A new novel explores the fraught fate of Ground Zero

Google Takes Aim (Tech)

Will its big Motorola deal lead to phones that rival Apple's?

Go with the Floe (Environment)

Adventure travel's love-hate relationship with climate change

Bling vs. Vroom (Money)

Gold shines, and oil slides: understanding the price of panic

10 Questions for Kevin Mitnick (10 Questions)

Once the world's most wanted hacker, Kevin Mitnick still cracks computer networks--but now he gets permission

Pimp My Password (The Awesome Column)

What's a simple guy to do in the age of sophisticated hackers?

COMMENTARY

LETTERS