Featured in this issue:

• Bionomics > Economics
• Stephen Collis on innovation and disaster
• Scott Atran on the Birth of Hamas
• Darren Fleet on financial algorithms gone wild
• Franco "Bifo" Berardi on imagination
• Gareth Peirce on why we torture
• Pankaj Mishra on the CIA in Iran
• Binyavanga Wainaina on Saving the Children of Africa
• Welcoming in the Year of the Snake