Fear of a Black president / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Who in God's name is Mitt Romney? / Frank Rich -- It's not about the law, stupid and The supreme court's dark vision of freedom and Where is the liberal outrage? / Dahlia Lithwick -- The innocent man / Pamela Colloff -- 18 tigers, 17 lions, 8 bears, 3 cougars, 2 wolves, 1 baboon, 1 macaque, and 1 man dead in Ohio / Chris Heath -- Did you think about the six people you executed? / Robert F. Worth -- A life worth ending / Michael Wolff -- Mothers, sisters, daughters, wives / Mimi Swartz -- School of hate / Sabrina Rubin Erdely -- Atonement / Dexter Filkins -- The big book / Chris Jones -- Terry Southern : the art of screenwriting / interview by Maggie Paley -- Mega : ten days inside the mansion--and the mind--of Kim Dotcom, the most wanted man on the internet / Charles Graeber -- Portrait of a lady and Social animal and We're all Helmut Newton now / Daphne Merkin -- Over the wall / Roger Angell -- Batman and Robin have an altercation / Stephen King -- The living and the dead / Brian Mockenhaupt -- State of the species / Charles C. Mann.