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Natural Intelligence

  • Ben Purkert
Politics

The Americans Are Coming

Traveling to Cuba after revised White House policies.

  • Sarah Hill
Law

Open Letter to Gayle Smith, Nominee for USAID Administrator

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

  • Alex de Waal
Arts in Society

Lav Diaz’s Quiet Storm

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

  • Adam Katzman
Class & Inequality Politics

Attaining Adulthood

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

  • Claude S. Fischer
Law

The Folly of Neoliberal Prison Reform

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

  • Marie Gottschalk

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Arts in Society

Treadmill

  • Chuck Tripi
Arts in Society

“The Pants of Time”

Reading the poems of Duncan McNaughton.

  • Benjamin Hollander
Arts in Society

Microreview: Alice Fulton, Barely Composed

  • Magdalena Edwards
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Melcion Mateu

  • Melcion Mateu
  • Rowan Ricardo Phillips
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.

  • Sindre Bangstad
Arts in Society

Announcing the 2015 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Selected by judge Ruth Ozeki.

  • Boston Review
Science

The New New Guidelines

Why do our ideas about nutrition change so quickly?

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
Arts in Society

The World

  • Eileen G’Sell
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Say Goodbye to the Shores (Catullus 101)

  • Mike Lala
Arts in Society Politics

Hashpipe of the Vanities

Overestimating the counterculture of the 1960s.

  • Hal Stucker
Arts in Society

A Good, Bad, Hard, Easy Life

A new collection of Lead Belly’s recordings.

  • Dave Byrne
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To the Celto-Ligurians

  • Don Bogen
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Politics

Left Out

The instability of the white working class.

  • Claude S. Fischer
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Microreview: Tarfia Faizullah, Seam

Giving rape survivors a voice.

  • Carina del Valle Schorske
Arts in Society

An Extra Life

Jorie Graham's From the New World

  • Katie Peterson
Arts in Society

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

  • Catherine Pond
Arts in Society Philosophy Race

American Cynicism

And its cure.

  • Jess Row
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Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts

  • Dara Wier
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