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Wake

  • Molly Minturn
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The Killers

  • Andrew Elliott
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Before Diagnosis

  • Roger Reeves
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Whistle and Snare

  • Broc Rossell
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  • Sasha Fletcher
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Hibernalphilia

  • Lisa Russ Spaar

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Ice Idyll

  • Lisa Russ Spaar
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Tayopa

"Here beat the true pulse of the New World. Here its promises of happiness were given the lie."

  • Ben C. Stroud
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Poet’s Sampler

  • Mary Hickman

Taking Off

Mexico's Demographic Challenge

  • Pedro Salazar Ugarte

The People’s Congress

Brazil’s experiment in direct democracy.

  • Leonardo Avritzer
Politics

The Turnout Mystery

The decline in turnout from 2008 to 2012 is a puzzle.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Arts in Society Gender & Sexuality

Still a Man’s World

The myth of women’s ascendance.

  • Philip N. Cohen
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Forget Harry Potter

Adults Should Read Joan Aiken's Wolves

  • John Crowley
Philosophy Science

E-Disharmony?

Online Dating Isn’t Threatening Monogamy

  • Claude S. Fischer

Keeping the Promise

Rights and realities in Latin America.

  • Roberto Gargarella
Law

Making Every Vote Count

Electronic voting in Brazil.

  • F. Daniel Hidalgo
Law Philosophy Politics

Votes Behind Bars

As of 2010, more than 5.85 million American citizens were disenfranchised because of criminal convictions. This is troubling. 

  • Pamela S. Karlan

From the Editors: January/February 2013

  • Joshua Cohen
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Class & Inequality Science

Cash Cows

Thanks to dairy farmers, there is hope for a sustainable middle class in East Africa.

  • Jennifer Wheary
Science

Troublemakers

Rural Chileans Fight to Keep Dams out of Patagonia

  • Carlota McAllister
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Femininjas

Women in Fiction Fight Back

  • Elizabeth Hand
Class & Inequality

The Road (and Rail) to Justice

Pushing for Fair Public Transit

  • Amy B. Dean
Politics

The Next Left

An interview with Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin.

  • Jake Blumgart
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