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Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: David J. Daniels

Selected with an introduction by Jennifer Grotz

  • David J. Daniels
  • Jennifer Grotz
Law

Crime and Punishment

Public safety doesn’t require more inmates.

  • Bruce Western
Arts in Society

Core Samples from the World

Forrest Gander’s latest book injects ethical consequence into his daring sense of the permeability of structure and the instability of form.

  • Richard Deming
Arts in Society

Fall Higher

After more than a dozen books, Dean Young has become the spokesperson for a certain kind of poetic abandon.

  • Andrew Allport
Arts in Society

Helsinki

Poems with pleasing uncertainty.

  • Elizabeth Gramm
Arts in Society

Either Way I’m Celebrating

Between poetry and stand-up comedy.

  • Kathleen Rooney

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Arts in Society

Picture World

Niels Frank's latest collection is more like an inspired monologue than poems. 

  • Nate Pritts
Class & Inequality Science

Storms Without Names

Climate Change Wreaking Havoc in Central America

  • Douglas Haynes
Class & Inequality Philosophy Politics

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on student loan debt, academia, and the value of education.

  • David Graeber
  • David V. Johnson
Class & Inequality Philosophy Politics

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on why we don’t put babies’ lives ahead of Citibank’s shareholders and whether we should renew the tradition of debt jubilees.

  • David Graeber
  • David V. Johnson
Class & Inequality Law

No Parties, No Banners

The Spanish experiment with direct democracy.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
  • Ernesto Ganuza
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Race

The End of Nothing

Segregation Is Still a Problem in the United States

  • Ryan D. Enos
Class & Inequality Law Politics

Can Apple Shape Up?

Examining the global supply chains and labor practices of the high-tech industry.

  • Dara O’Rourke
  • David V. Johnson
Law Politics

The Past is not Past

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

  • Jonathan Brater
Class & Inequality Philosophy Politics

Blunt Instrument

Sanctions don’t promote democratic change.

  • Natasha Bahrami
  • Trita Parsi
Law

Too Much Credit

Response to Flynt and Hillary Leverett.

  • Ali Ansari
Politics

The Holy Game

Big spectacle games are made for professions of faith, and holy language is exactly the right fit.

  • Jason Anthony
Law

Agenda-Driven Reviews

A response to Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett.

  • Trita Parsi

California Prisons and Cornel West vs Obama

BR Co-editor Joshua Cohen chats with contributor Glenn Loury on Bloggingheads.tv

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Glenn C. Loury
Law Politics

The Soft Side of Regime Change

On Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice.

  • Flynt Leverett
  • Hillary Mann Leverett
Law

Messin’ with Texas

The Legal Wrangle over Redistricting

  • Samuel Issacharoff
Politics

A Better Deal

Obama’s State of the Union Announces Populist Re-election Bid

  • David Biespiel
Class & Inequality

The Return of Inequality

How the Occupy Movement Shifted Electoral Politics

  • Ari Paul
Arts in Society

Odd One Out

An Interview with Joan Houlihan

  • Joan Houlihan
  • Sawnie Morris
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