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EDITOR'S DESK

UNITED STATES

The Next Gun Fight (Special Report)

Will a new campaign for gun laws quell the mass shootings that are routine in America?

Your Brain Under Fire (Special Report)

A third of U.S. public schools have armed guards. After Newtown, more may get them. But do they make kids safer? The answer will surprise you

BRIEFING

Bigger Picture (Tech)

The supersize technology that will make your high-def TV obsolete

WORLD

Israel's Right Turn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely win re-election on Jan. 22. But it's his former chief of staff who's firing up the country's conservative youth

VIEWPOINT

Loose Cannon

Shinzo Abe's hawkish foreign policy isn't half as worrying as his economic one

THE CULTURE