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Arts in Society

En Face

  • Lyn Hejinian
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Model Minority, Dreaming, and Cheap Signaling

Outrage and Outreach

  • Prageeta Sharma
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A White Song

  • David Lloyd
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Response to Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde

  • Mónica de la Torre
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Response to Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde

  • Erica Hunt

Paradise

A quarter of Costa Rican landmass has been given over to national parks.

  • Matthew Fishbane

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Science

Getting Personal

Individuality can emerge even when genes and environment are constant.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Two Poems

  • Yusef Komunyakaa
Politics Science

A New Deal for the Colorado River

What is being called a drought is likely the new norm.

  • Ben Merriman
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Microreview: Rob Schlegel, January Machine

  • Jeff Alessandrelli
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Girl with Ox

  • Paula Bohince
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Vignettes Urbanes

  • Elizabeth Whittlesey
Gender & Sexuality

Wounded Women

The assumption of female vulnerability threatens to invigorate the sexist evils it aims to combat.

  • Jessa Crispin
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Into Darkness

Nature, Risk, and the Birth of Creativity

  • Jenny Hendrix
Politics

Netanyahu Is Right: U.S.-Israel Relations Are Here to Stay

“Reports of the demise of Israeli-U.S. relations are not only premature, they’re just wrong.” It is hard to disagree.

  • Simon Waxman
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When Tony Hoagland Says My Maternal Instincts Are Impressive

  • Jenny Browne
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Microreview: Martha Silano, Reckless Lovely

Poems that begin with a bang.

  • Lisa K. Perdigao

From the Editors: March/April 2015

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Politics

Don’t Defund, Just Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security

Republicans are right to obstruct funding for DHS—but they’re doing it for the wrong reasons.

  • Tom Barry
Law Politics

With Immigration Plan, Obama Invited Legal Scrutiny

Even if Obama’s immigration measure gets past procedural obstacles, it may be quickly revoked.

  • Louis Fisher
Arts in Society

“Poetry Makes Nothing Happen”

W. H. Auden’s struggle with politics.

  • Robert Huddleston
Arts in Society Politics Science

For Americans, Science and Religion Are Largely Compatible

It is when science directly touches faith that the conflict flares up.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society Politics

France after Charlie Hebdo

France’s own political traditions can accommodate visible Islam and heal social divisions.

  • John R. Bowen
with responses from
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  • Arthur Goldhammer
  • Haroon Moghul
  • Joan Wallach Scott
  • Joseph Massad
  • Mayanthi L. Fernando
  • Michèle Lamont & Nicolas Duvoux
  • David D. Laitin
  • Maleiha Malik
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White Noise

  • Eric Amling
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