From Guernica, an interview with Katherine Dunn, author of One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing; an interview with longtime Africa correspondent Michela Wrong on why she rejects Dambisa Moyo’s thesis about aid and democracy, and how she learned to love Paul Wolfowitz. From The Wilson Quarterly, as Mexico steps up its war against the brutal cartels that supply the United States' drug habit, leaders on both sides of the border face tough questions about how to combat a problem that threatens the very fabric of Mexico’s ­democracy. In a new book, the exiled former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev makes serious allegations that could further damage the country's reputation. Scott McLemee reviews Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen by Peter Alexander Meyers. From the nutty mass

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