Cutting through a cell division mystery

Few processes are as fundamental to life as that of one cell dividing into two.

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05.22.2015

Current Issue

Volume 113, Number 2

Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer’s new translation lets today’s reader hear Vergil as the Romans did. Plus: An excerpt from Book I of The Aeneid.

In the 1950s, a pair of young alumni set out on Route 66 and captured a workaday America now vanished.

For some parents, life is a rat race they want their children to win. For others, it’s a race they’ve already lost. Why macroeconomics plays a role.

W. J. T. Mitchell looks at endings and beginnings.

Scenes from a minicourse at the Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership.