COVER
What Choice? (Nation)
Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v. Wade. They've been losing ever since
BRIEFING
Jack Klugman (Milestones)
Odd man in
India's Shame (Dispatch)
A brutal rape spotlights a culture of hostility toward women
Charles Durning (Milestones)
Consummate character
Milestones (Milestones)
Worries over Hillary's Health (Health)
What Clinton's concussion and clot could mean
World
Arms Race (Spotlight)
The U.S. is a global outlier on gun laws. Will Newtown change anything?
Norman Schwarzkopf (Milestones)
Briefing
LightBox
FEATURES
Cliff Dweller (Nation)
A precarious balance of power between President Obama and Republicans in Congress means the U.S. will face a cascading fiscal crisis in 2013. Get used to life on the edge
Polio And Politics (Medicine)
THE CULTURE
Prediction: I Will Irritate Nate Silver (The Awesome Column)
In which I force the king of statistics to help me forecast the year ahead
10 Questions for Louise Erdrich (10 Questions)
Half-Chippewa novelist Louise Erdrich on her crime thriller, Geronimo's name and the good ideas of Richard Nixon
Track Stars (Tech)
New health monitors to help with your New Year's resolutions
Getting the Band Back Together (Movies)
Not Fade Away reunites a trio of Sopranos
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COMMENTARY
The Trillion-Dollar Homecoming (The Curious Capitalist)
Giving U.S. companies a tax break on overseas profits won't help the economy
Obama's Next Foreign Policy Battle (In the Arena)
Sooner or later, the President is going to have to confront the neoconservatives