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From Social Policy, an essay on Building Organiziations in a Movement Moment; a look at the struggle over voting rights and the future of progressive politics; an article on living wage policies and Wal-Mart; an excerpt from Transforming the City: Community Organizing the the Challenge of Political Change; and a review of books on grassroots community organizing. From Foreign Affairs, Richard Holbrooke on The Next President: Mastering a Daunting Agenda; Robert Kagan on The September 12 Paradigm: America, the World, and George W. Bush; Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O'Hanlon, and Kenneth M. Pollack on How to Leave a Stable Iraq: Building on Progress; a review of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris (and more and more and more); and a review of Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention by Gary J. Bass. A review of A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East by Kenneth M. Pollack. From The Philosopher's Annual, here are the ten best articles published in philosophy this past year. From TLS, a review of Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts by Joseph Horowitz. What they say may not be as important as what they wear: Convention fashion, explained.