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Postpartum Hemorrhage

  • Sandra Simonds
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Dear Ancestors

  • Filip Marinovich
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Big Tobacco Abroad

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the downside to free trade.

  • Sean McElwee
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Two Poems

  • Circe Maia
  • Jesse Lee Kercheval
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from The Bear Letters

  • Rebecca Kutzer-Rice
Class & Inequality Law

The Gun Library

An Ethic of Crime in São Paulo

  • Graham Denyer Willis

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Letting Go of Normal

It is easy, but wrong, to see development in terms of ‘genes for X’ or a nature/nurture balance.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Three Poems

  • Kim Kyung Ju
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Metamorphosis as an Answer

  • Tory Adkisson
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Getting Around It

  • Lisa Lubasch
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Three Poems

  • Robert Okaji
Gender & Sexuality

Which Radical Ideas Come True?

Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.

  • Claude S. Fischer
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when the end is near

  • Amber Atiya
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Marking Sacred Time

A collection of Pashtun women's landays.

  • Heather Hewett
  • Eliza Griswold
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Three Poems

  • Samantha Zighelboim

Inequality Kills

What's behind the decline in American health? Although recent attention has been paid to the rising economic inequality in the United States, the links of that trend to our health have not been presented to the public. 

  • Stephen Bezruchka
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Odysseus Amongst the Swine Glances Towards Ithaca

  • Dan Chelotti
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Poems on Surveillance

  • Andrew Ridker
  • Cathy Park Hong
  • Rae Armantrout
  • John Ashbery
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Charles Bernstein
  • Harmony Holiday
  • Noelle Kocot
  • Richard Greenfield
  • Maureen N. McLane
  • Amy King
  • Jennifer Kronovet
  • Jessica Baran
Science

Stop and Look

Geocaching invites you to consider spaces normally relegate to the blur of background scenery.

  • Matthew Fishbane
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Complaint

  • Josh Bell
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Of the Leaves That Have Fallen

  • Rickey Laurentiis
  • Timothy Donnelly
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Country on Fire

  • Jennifer Willoughby
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Gangsta Folk

If gangsta rap lyrics are evidence of criminality, what are we to make of gruesome murders depicted in many folk and country songs?

  • Simon Waxman
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Mother Issues

  • Christa Romanosky
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