K. Sabeel Rahman leads a forum on regulating the growing power of Internet companies. Juliet Schor, Dean Baker, Mike Konczal, and others respond. Jess Row on American cynicism as a (white) lifestyle; Katie Peterson on Jorie Graham; Meghan O’Gieblyn reviews Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed; Dave Byrne on Lead Belly.
Forum
Curbing the New Corporate Power
K. SABEEL RAHMAN
WITH RESPONSES FROM JULIET B. SCHOR, DEAN BAKER, ADAM THIERER, ROBIN CHASE, ARUN SUNDARARAJAN, DAVID BOLLIER, SOFIA RANCHORDÁS, MIKE KONCZAL, AND RICHARD WHITE.
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
Dispatch: Leaving ISIS
Umar Farooq
Dispatch: The Americans Are Coming
Sarah Hill
Made in America: Left Out
Claude S. Fischer
Wonders: The New New Guidelines
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Books & Ideas
American Cynicism and Its Cure
Jess Row
A Good, Bad, Hard, Easy Life: Smithsonian Folkways’ Lead Belly<
Dave Byrne
On Poetry
“Discovery” contest winners
Jessica Fjeld, Jenny George, Margaret Reges, and Kit Schluter
An Extra Life: Jorie Graham’s From the New World
Katie Peterson
Rowan Ricardo Phillips introduces translations of Melcion Mateu
Microreviews
Aaron Kunin’s Cold Genius
Daniel Tiffany
Alice Fulton’s Barely Composed
Magdalena Edwards
Joanna Penn Cooper’s What Is A Domicile
Carlo Matos
Samantha Giles’s Deadfalls and Snares.
Anna Moschovakis
On Film
Human Frailties: Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu
Alan A. Stone
Poems
Bookcase
Trent Busch
Spring
Sumita Chakraborty
Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts
Dara Wier
I’m A Young Cowboy and Know I’ve Done Wrong
Catherine Pond
Say Goodbye to the Shores (Catullus 101)
Mike Lala
The World
Eileen G’Sell
Treadmill
Chuck Tripi
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