Dispatches, June 23, 2008, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Tehran, Paris.

Neo-Nazis get a foothold in Israel. The hate of the Holocaust finds traction in the home of its survivors. A new book on race says Mexicans will bring about the "Tiger Woodsicisation" of the United States. From Iran, the lyrics of solitary confinement: aphorisms from an academic's long term in notorious Evin Prison. Pakistan's man of hope: what the poetry of the late Faiz Ahmad Faiz means to the country today. And, as newspapers close down, coffee culture is on the rise in Tehran.