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September/October 2010

Democracy After Citizens United

Lawrence Lessig leads a forum on Citizens United and the corruption of Congress; Will Wilkinson, David N. Bossie, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Rep. Donna F. Edwards, and others respond. Plus, Tom Barry, Vivian Gornick, William Hogeland, Mary Jo Bang, and more.

 

 

Forum 

Democracy After Citizens United

Lawrence Lessig — with responses from:

DAVID DONNELLY, DAVID N. BOSSIE, NANCY L. ROSENBLUM, MARVIN AMMORI, DONNA F. EDWARDS, WILL WILKINSON, ALLISON R. HAYWARD, CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY, JOHN BONIFAZ AND JEFFREY CLEMENTS.

Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

Foundations

State of the Nation: Elections Foretold
Stephen Ansolabehere
Dispatch: Zigzag Ice Dragon
Matthew Fishbane
Dispatch: Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods
Syed Saleem Shahzad
Our Man in Guatemala
Susan Reverby
Karlan’s Court: In The Beginning
Pamela S. Karlan

Investigations

Tom Barry

Context

Real Americans
William Hogeland

Books & Ideas

The Ancient Dream
Vivian Gornick
Colonial Studies
Deborah M. Gordon
Off Minor: Robin D. G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Scott Saul

 

Fiction

The Moor
Ben Stroud

 

On Film

The Rebel: Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love
Alan A. Stone

 

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler
Sarah V. Schweig, introduced by Mark Strand
No Letting Go: Bob Hicok’s Words for Empty and Words for Full
Keith Taylor
Degrees of Sight: Don Paterson’s Rain
Dai George
Microreviews

 

Poems

Reductive
Arthur Vogelsang
Puff-puff-puff! Parading Grandpas
Miłosz Biedrzycki
Always a Fragment. Telephony
Miłosz Biedrzycki
Office
Allison Titus
Abeyance
Jose Perez Beduya
The Fold
Jose Perez Beduya
The Nerve Fibers
Mary Jo Bang
Conquest
Adam L. Dressler
There is a Law Against It Here
Jessica Field
Mouse in a Government Building
Shelley Roche-Jacques
If a Train
Jason Labbe

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