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Forum III (Summer 2017)

The President's House Is Empty: Losing and Gaining Public Goods

From clean water to health care, access to well-being in the United States is hardly uniform. This issue explores what public goods are and why they matter for democracy.

Forum: Losing and Gaining Public Goods

Opening
K. Sabeel Rahman
K. Sabeel Rahman
Joshua Cohen
Lauren Jacobs
Jacob T. Levy
Michael Hardt
Elaine Kamarck

Essays

Bonnie Honig

Opting out, as Trump has done with the White House, is a neoliberal habit. But who bears the cost?

Bernardo Zacka

Following Trump's election, bureaucracy has gone from being a thorn in the side of democracy to being its saving grace. But bureaucrats are also frontline workers who grapple independently with complex questions of democracy.

Marshall Steinbaum

When college is a prerequisite for getting a job that pays better than minimum wage, we cannot stop until it is free and accessible to all.

Tracey L. Meares

Policing as we know it must be abolished before it can be transformed.

Julian C. Chambliss

Mar-a-Lago is the apotheosis of the Florida Dream in which wealthy interests degrade the environment and hollow out prospects for the poor. But as Hurricane Irma shows, this dream was never sustainable.

Meghan O’Gieblyn

From the Great Lakes to the Flint River, we have devastated our waters through negligence, lethargy, and good intentions.


Poetry

Shane McCrae

The Role of the Negro in the Work of Art

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Craig Santos Perez

A Make-Believe Nation

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Sally Ball

Soon Scrap Heap

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