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When the Umpire Throws the Pitches

The Court is not simply deciding which cases to hear, but is also directing the parties to address issues the justices want to take up.

  • Pamela S. Karlan
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Never So Free

Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation portrays an Iranian divorce under sharia law with sensitivity and pathos.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Golden Buddha

  • Sandra Simonds
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Poet’s Sampler: Sarah Blake

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Class & Inequality

State of the Nation: No Middle Ground

America’s Growing Income Segregation

  • Kendra Bischoff
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Much to Answer For

James Q. Wilson’s legacy.

  • Glenn C. Loury

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Bodies with Histories

The new search for the biology of race.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
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The New Cinema

  • Joseph Chapman
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Drinking with Mephistopheles

  • T. J. Jarrett
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Sola Fide

  • Joseph Chapman
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Experience is a Thief’s Best Friend

  • Stephanie Ford
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From That Were Once Beautiful Children

  • Claudia Rankine
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At the Edge of the Bed

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien
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Certain Allied Experiments

  • Lily Brown
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Recommendation: Monica A. Hand’s me and Nina

  • Thomas Sayers Ellis
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Pretty Little Failboat

  • Anthony Madrid
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Milk the Dog and Walk the Cow

  • Anthony Madrid
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The Precision Chromatic Ray Race of People

  • Anthony Madrid
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The Precision Chromatic Ray Race of People

  • Anthony Madrid
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Milk the Dog and Walk the Cow

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Pretty Little Failboat

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Philosophy Science

The Loneliness Scare

Isolation Isn’t a Growing Problem

  • Claude S. Fischer
Class & Inequality Science

That’s Not Really Destroying America

An interview with Fischer about his new BR column.

  • Claude S. Fischer
  • David V. Johnson
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Order and Kinetics

  • Claire Donato
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