Forum
Sweet Forgiveness
Mike Konczal — with responses from:
DEAN BAKER, G. MARCUS COLE, TAMARA DRAUT, LOUIS HYMAN, JACOB S. HACKER AND NATHANIEL LOEWENTHEIL, MARK A. CALABRIA, ROBERT S. HOCKETT, AND BARBARA H. FRIED.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
State of the Nation
Big Organic
Wenonah Hauter
Essays
Hosts
Matthew Fishbane
Dragon’s Blood
Sidney M. Mintz
Happiness Policy
Claude S. Fischer
Contempt of Court
Pamela S. Karlan
Discussion: War Is Betrayal, Redux
Chris Hedges, Roy Scranton, Chris Lombardi, William Treseder, and Joyce Goldberg
Beyond the Welfare State
Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson
Fighting over the Same Ground
an interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Making Elections Fairer
an interview with Archon Fung
How Not to Talk about Gaza
Colin Dayan
Books & Ideas
Remarkable Facts: Ending Science as We Know It
Elliott Sober
A March to the Grave: Joseph Roth and the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Roger Boylan
To Be Fair: Is there a Moral Case for Free Markets?
Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson
Fiction
It’s a Small World
Ariel Dorfman
On Poetry
Poetry Contest Winner — Selected by Matthea Harvey
Sarah Crossland
The Suffering of Others: Jorie Graham’s PLACE
David Micah Greenberg
Echoes: I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women
Lindsay Turner
On Film
Black Like Me: Dinesh D’Souza and John Sullivan’s 2016: Obama’s America
Alan A. Stone
Poems
Poem Beginning with a Line from Gammer Gurton’s Needle
John Ashbery
Recent History
John Ashbery
On Ninjas
Jane Yeh
Station
Andrew Zawacki
Là
Andrew Zawacki
No Sky
Martha Ronk
To the Shopping Mall
Vincent Guerra
A Parable
Anna Maria Hong
Poem for Four Years
Daniel Schoonebeek, introduced by Timothy Donnelly
Poet’s Sampler
Grant Souders, introduced by Dan Beachy-Quick
