ANALYSIS
The Decline of the West Revisited
Shlomo Ben-Ami

ASIA WATCH
Burma Ready to Play Ball With U.S.
Bertil Lintner
A Microcosm of Chinese Anger
Borje Ljunggren
China: A Society of Seniors
Thomas Fingar

COMMENTARY
“Made in My Country” Mentality Flawed
Alain Renaudin

DEVELOPMENT
Equitable Development in Papua New Guinea
Catherine Wilson

ENVIRONMENT
Zimbabwe Not Prepared for Floods Amid Conflicting Weather Forecasts
Ignatius Banda

FORUM
The New Global Economy: Seizing Sustainable Development
Jacob Zuma and Tarja Halonen

GLOBAL ECONOMY
City of London and EU in Bitter Acrimony
Philip Whyte

HUMAN WELFARE
Low UNICEF Funding Leaves Millions of Children at Risk
Bari Bates

INSIGHT
The World in Words: A Strategy for Russia’s Snow Revolution
Mischa Gabowitsch

MIDDLE EAST IN FOCUS
China Courts the Middle East
Dilip Hiro

 

COMMUNITY
Building Communities Around Sustainable Food
Matthew Cardinale

EDUCATION
Arizona Lawmakers: No More Teachers’ Dirty Words
Ben Wolfgang

HOBBY
Scrapbooking: Preserving Memories, One Scrap at a Time
Margaret Montet

MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Paraguayan Radio Station Buses Internet to the Barrios
Natalia Ruiz Díaz

REVIEWS
Hedy the Inventor and Hedy the Invented
Sandra McElwaine
Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Richard Rhodes

The Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. History
Joshua Sinai
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in American History
Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice

America Coming Apart
Phil Brand
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Charles Murray

Digital Assassination
David All
Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks
Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis

Lost Stories from Daphne du Maurier
Corinna Lothar
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Daphne du Maurier

A Paperless Dystopia: The Fear Index
Claire Hopley
The Fear Index
Robert Harris

The Indispensible General: George Marshall
John M. Taylor
Marshall and His Generals
Stephen R. Taaffe

Translating God: William Tyndale
Mark A. Kellner
Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice
David Teems

The Chaos of Happenstance: How it All Began
Carol Herman
How it All Began
Penelope Lively

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
Kristian Williams
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
Brooke Gladstone, illustrated by Josh Neufeld, et al.

WRITERS AND WRITING
New Common Sense: Thomas Sowell
James E. Person Jr.
The Thomas Sowell Reader
Thomas Sowell

FESTIVAL
ASEAN Attempts to Build on a Shared Language: Music
Kalinga Seneviratne

FILM
‘Fetih 1453’: İstanbul Conquered Again
Ali Koca
Worse than Fiction: Silence in Paradise
Constanza Vieira

MUSIC
Daniil Trifonov to Perform With National Philharmonic
Deborah Birnbaum

IMPACTS
Brewing Mysteries from Ancient Sumer
Simone Rieger

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
A New Way to Map Water Use Worldwide
Don Comis

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
Skeletons Point to Columbus Voyage for Syphilis Origins
Beverly Clark

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
New Insights into How to Correct False Knowledge
Steve Hartsoe

FOODWAYS
Uruguay: A Small Country With a Grand Cuisine
Lisa Mercer

LANGUAGE
Languages Lost and Found
Iris Brooks

PEOPLES
The Geometry of the Spirit: Islamic Calligraphy
David James
Cuba: Mural-Lined Street Transforms Neighborhood
Patricia Grogg
Somalia: Taking Schools Back From Militants
Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar

CALENDAR
Civil War Sesquicentennial: 1861-65 / 2011-15
Compiled by William S. Connery

REMEMBERING HISTORY
Valentines to Sweethearts from the Front Lines
Martha Boltz

TALES OF FIRE AND STRIFE
Jews in the Civil War, Part II
William Connery

VOICES FROM THE PAST
North Carolina’s ‘Confederate Greys’
Bernhard Thuersam