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Politics

The Americans Are Coming

Traveling to Cuba after revised White House policies.

Law

Open Letter to Gayle Smith, Nominee for USAID Administrator

At USAID there’s one simple thing you can commit to: no famine.

Arts in Society

Lav Diaz’s Quiet Storm

Lav Diaz’s singular approach to history is liberated from the shackles of business-oriented film.

Class & Inequality Politics

Attaining Adulthood

The less affluent are increasingly leading “non-standard” lives.

Law

The Folly of Neoliberal Prison Reform

The demands of justice and human rights compel thoroughgoing change, whatever the cost-benefit analysis returns.

Arts in Society

Treadmill

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“The Pants of Time”

Reading the poems of Duncan McNaughton.

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Microreview: Alice Fulton, Barely Composed

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Poet’s Sampler: Melcion Mateu

Politics

The Rise of the Populist Right in Norway

Across Europe, the hold of traditional centrist parties—whether social democratic, liberal, or conservative—seems to be slipping away.

Arts in Society

Announcing the 2015 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Selected by judge Ruth Ozeki.

Science

The New New Guidelines

Why do our ideas about nutrition change so quickly?

Arts in Society

The World

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Say Goodbye to the Shores (Catullus 101)

Arts in Society Politics

Hashpipe of the Vanities

Overestimating the counterculture of the 1960s.

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A Good, Bad, Hard, Easy Life

A new collection of Lead Belly’s recordings.

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To the Celto-Ligurians

Arts in Society Class & Inequality Politics

Left Out

The instability of the white working class.

Arts in Society

Microreview: Tarfia Faizullah, Seam

Giving rape survivors a voice.

Arts in Society

An Extra Life

Jorie Graham's From the New World

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I’m a Young Cowboy and Know I’ve Done Wrong

Arts in Society Philosophy Race

American Cynicism

And its cure.

Arts in Society

Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts

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