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Pinky’s Rule

  • Charles Bernstein
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Styles for Him—and Her

Unisex Fashion Fought the Gender Binary, and the Binary Won

  • Philip N. Cohen
Politics

Taking Back the States … Again

Why don’t Democratic efforts in state and local politics stick?

  • Andrew Mayersohn
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Two Poems

  • Chloe Garcia Roberts
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Distress Tolerance Handout 5

  • Walt Hunter
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Lansing Year

  • Marshall Thomas

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Life Sings with Many Voices

Eduardo Galeano began as a propagandist, convinced of a single dogmatic truth. He became an artist.

  • Nathan J. Robinson
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Make the Beast

  • Kate Ward Sugar
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Can a Poem Listen?

Variations on Being-White

  • Ailish Hopper
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Human Frailties

Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu

  • Alan A. Stone
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Three Poems

  • Rosa Alcalá
Law Politics

How the Truth About Palestine Won Netanyahu the Israeli Election

He now has the power to establish, if he wishes, a coalition consisting exclusively of extreme right and religious parties.

  • Omri Boehm

From the Editors: May/June 2015

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
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At the Birthplace of Sound

  • Akil Kumarasamy
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Document d’Oiseaux: Official Report on Birds

Translated from the Japanese by Yuki Tanaka and Mary Jo Bang

  • Shūzō Takiguchi
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from LAND

  • Julie Kantor
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Ruin

Online shaming is a cathartic alternative to real efforts at social change.

  • Meghan O’Gieblyn
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Aubade (The Son Rising)

  • Jonathan Moody
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Fuel Adieu!

  • Terese Svoboda
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Cloud Banks

  • Rob Stanton
Arts in Society Politics

The Rise of the Anti-Muslim Fringe

— and how it became mainstream.

  • Aziz Z. Huq
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Love Poem with a Drone in It

  • Michael C. Peterson
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Eight Essays on the Face

Frida Kahlo, Manet’s Olympia, and more. 

  • Virginia Konchan
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Three Poems

  • Alejandra Pizarnik
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