March 18, 2013 | Vol. 181 No. 10

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COMMENTARY

Why Markets Won't Crash — Yet (THE CURIOUS CAPITALIST)

This economic climate has a familiar feel. And just as we survived the debt-ceiling crisis, we'll survive the sequester

A Time to Think Big (IN THE ARENA)

The country faces grave challenges. So why do Jeb Bush and Barack Obama spend so much time on small-bore maneuvers?

Build That Pipeline! (Worldview)

Reducing our dependence on oil will do far more to slow climate change than blocking the Keystone project

FEATURES

Return to Sender (NATION)

The buildup in Afghanistan lasted 12 years. With 22 months left, can the U.S. get its equipment out in time?

America's Long Withdrawal from Afghanistan

TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev traveled to Afghanistan to document how the American military will bring the materials home from more than a decade of war

THE CULTURE

Let There Be Dark (Art)

A look inside Bill Brandt's book of shadows

At "Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light," the voluptuous retrospective organized by curator Sarah Hermanson Meister at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, one finds out just how powerful a force 'black' can be