COVER
The DNA Dilemma: A Test That Could Change Your Life (Health)
FEATURES
The Money Cop (Finance)
Gary Gensler got his start on Wall Street. Now he's cleaning it up--and taking on the biggest banking scandal since the financial crisis
Grass Roots (Nation)
The Beginning of the End of Pot Prohibition
Big Brothers (World)
The Muslim Brotherhood spent years angling for power. Now that its members have it, they're not sure what to do with it
THE CULTURE
Television (BEST OF 2012)
The Year of the Bad Call (The Awesome Column)
There was a word for people who approached decisionmaking rationally: losers
Books (BEST OF 2012)
Movies (BEST OF 2012)
Pop Music (BEST OF 2012)
10 Questions for Ian McKellen (10 Questions)
British actor and gay-rights activist Ian McKellen on Gandalf's sex drive, hotel Bibles and that new monarch-to-be
Theater (BEST OF 2012)
Games (BEST OF 2012)
LETTERS
Inbox (Inbox)
COMMENTARY
The Baby Boom and Financial Doom (Worldview)
To rightsize spending, entitlement programs must be reformed
BUSINESS
Qatar Is Tiny and Rich, and it's Angling for Influence (Qatar)
Is this the next Arab superpower?
BRIEFING
Lionel Messi (Milestones)
Soccer phenom
Milestones (Milestones)
When CEOs Play Santa (Business)
Companies are racing to pay dividends before the fiscal cliff
Jenni Rivera (Milestones)
Queen of banda
General Disorders (Nation)
Why some senior military officers are going off the rails
Briefing
My, Oh Maya (Science)
The world's not ending--but can NASA persuade the terrified?
Ravi Shankar (Milestones)
Sitar hero
World
Doomsday At a Glance
What life will look like after the fiscal cliff
Diabetes Diet (Health)
Making disease-fighting eating easier