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The Cure

Can doctors change how they think?

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Plague of Locusts

Our Failure to Regulate Drone Warfare

  • Richard Falk
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Blaming Islam

A Boston Review Book

  • John R. Bowen
Class & Inequality Law

In Vain Have We Sanctioned

Harsher measures against Iran won’t work.

  • Akbar Ganji
Arts in Society

Poetry and the Public Sphere

Addressing “When That Becomes This”

  • David Micah Greenberg
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Back in Time

Julian Barnes asks: How much of what we think makes us special is only a trick of memory?

  • Roger Boylan

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Natural Experiments

Embracing Poetry’s Failure

  • Christopher Schmidt
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Beautiful Resistance

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
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The Gulf

In later years I will come to avoid him, but for now, I am eight years old, and the man everyone says is my father is sitting in the living room.

  • Tania James
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Friends and Dictators

Cozying up to central Asia’s most brutal regimes.

  • Tara McKelvey
Law

What’s a Right Without a Remedy?

The Supreme Court may be signaling potential wrongdoers that they can infringe rights with impunity.

  • Pamela S. Karlan
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No Saudi Spring

The anatomy of a failed revolution.

  • Madawi Al-Rasheed
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Good Jobs

Three Reasons There Aren’t More

  • Paul Osterman
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When Critics Mattered

On Pauline Kael, Robert Ebert, and seventies film.

  • Jonathan Kirshner
Class & Inequality Law Philosophy

Elevating the Discourse

An Interview with Robert C. Post

  • Robert C. Post
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Cumulus

  • Margot Schilpp
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Build a Wide Tomb for War Animals

  • Patricia Lockwood
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Suicide Is Painless

  • Michael Robbins
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Poem for Chris Brown After His Arrest

  • Greg Weiss
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Poem for Rihanna After Chris Brown’s Arrest

  • Greg Weiss
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True Figures

  • David Blair
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Clairvoyance (Sunlight)

  • Melissa Kwasny
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A. in May

  • Kathleen Ossip
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