Forum
Build the Green Economy
Robert Pollin — with responses from:
MADELINE JANIS, LESLIE DEWAN, GEORGE R. TYNAN AND DAVID G. VICTOR, MARA PRENTISS, SANYA CARLEY, REED HUNDT, AND SIMON CANEY.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
State of the Nation: Who Cares About Climate Change?
Stephen Ansolabehere and David M. Konisky
Made in America: All Tech Is Social
Claude S. Fischer
Wonders: Of Maggots and Brain Scans
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Context
Ground Down to Molasses: The Making of an American Folk Song
Dave Byrne
Fiction
Severance — Winner of the 2014 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest, selected by Kiran Desai
Leslee Becker
Books & Ideas
Architecture in Extremis: Shigeru Ban’s Humanitarian Designs
Stephen Phelan
Studying the Rich: Thomas Piketty and His Critics
Mike Konczal
Righting the GOP
Mark Schmitt
The Neoliberal Bailout
Jonathan Kirshner
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Marni Ludwig introduced by Andrew Zawacki
Nation and Body: Julie Carr’s Rag
Karinne Keithley Syers
A Thousand Labyrinths: Peter Gizzi’s In Defense of Nothing
Ange Mlinko
Microreviews
New books by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Robinson, Roger Reeves, and Kevin Young.
On Film
Are You Jewish? John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo
Alan A. Stone
Poems
Where My Body Has Been
Regina DiPerna
Runaway
Douglas Kearney
High Notes
Vona Groarke
Above the BQE
Roy Scranton
Night People
Lisa Olstein
Among the Elements in a Time of War
Eamon Grennan
Farm Hubbub
John Ashbery