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Europe’s Deadly Border

Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way?

  • David Bacon
Arts in Society

Dialogue

  • Mark Hendrickon
Arts in Society

Made to Burn: Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers

A nominee for the National Book Award.

  • Marta Figlerowicz
Arts in Society

Gandhi and the Affordable Care Act

He didn’t believe in short-cuts.

  • Glenn C. Loury
Arts in Society

Microreview: Jennifer Militello, Body Thesaurus

A collection that moves past the body versus mind duality.

  • Gabrielle Flam
Philosophy Politics

What Are Radicals Good For?

An interview with George Scialabba on utopia, the hive mind, reviewers, and intellectuals.

  • Lindsey Gilbert
  • George Scialabba

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Arts in Society

On Canine Dasein: Frank Bidart’s Metaphysical Dog

  • John James
Arts in Society

“From Within the Field”: a Survey of the Survey

What models can poetry offer the would-be surveyor?

  • Lindsay Turner
Arts in Society

Dream House

  • Ariana Reines
Arts in Society Politics

Illiberal Reform

Why Did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Fail?

  • Lisa Blaydes
Arts in Society

Microreview: Jackie Clark, Aphoria

  • Lynn Melnick

Letter from the Editors

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Law

The NSA’s Backdoor Search Loophole

In the post-Snowden world, it is hard to imagine a more consequential fork in the road.

  • Elizabeth Goitein
Law Politics

Letter from Israel: Leftists on Zionism’s Past, Present, and Future

While “left” in the West is now a virtual synonym for anti-Zionism, the same is far from true in Israel.

  • Susie Linfield
Arts in Society

My Ambition, the Rival

  • Dai George
Arts in Society

“At the Mercy of My Poetic Voice”: An Interview with Alice Notley

Plus, a collage and new poems.

  • Lindsay Turner
Philosophy Politics

Crying Wolf: Democracies in Crisis

An interview with David Runciman

  • David Runciman
Arts in Society

I Am Vocal and the Salt

  • Alice Notley
Class & Inequality Law Politics

Trench Democracy in Schools: an Interview with Principal Donnan Stoicovy

Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places

  • Albert W. Dzur
Class & Inequality

Trench Democracy in Schools: an Interview with Principal Donnan Stoicovy

Part of our series on participatory innovation in unlikely places.

  • Albert W. Dzur
Arts in Society

The Marriage of Granite and Rainbow: A Biography of Robert Duncan

Lisa Jarnot offers a glimpse into the academic and artistic communities of Robert Duncan.

  • Brian Teare
Arts in Society

Lunch Break with Ted Berrigan and Neighbor’s House on Fire

  • Lynn Emanuel
Arts in Society

Microreview: Emily Fragos, Hostage

Poems that remain in the mind. 

  • Tara Neelakantappa Safronoff
Science

A Case for Climate Engineering

Harvard climate scientist David Keith leads a discussion about his new book, A Case for Climate Engineering, explaining climate engineering as a tool to combat global warming. He is joined by MIT political scientists Kenneth Oye and Stephen Van Evera. 

  • David Keith
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