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Putting Solutions on Trial
Impact Evaluation and the Millennium Villages Experiment in Africa
A Predicament Of His Own Making
Rather than dismantling Bush’s counterterrorism apparatus, Obama has in crucial respects perpetuated it.
Fixing Congress
In politics as in life, you get what you pay for. In politics today, taxpayers are hiring mediocre talent, candidates who think their job is to duck the big policy issues in order to get elected and reelected.
It Takes Two
In contrast to Loving v. Virginia, on the same-sex marriage issue the Court may have to make a decision before a national consensus emerges.
Microreview: CAConrad, The Book of Frank
Birth, childhood, independence, sexual awaking, marriage, parenting, and death.
Microreview: Wisława Szymborska, Here
Poems that are haunted by visitations: the figure of memory, the personification of an idea, the poet as a teenager.
Microreview: Allison Titus, The Sum of Every Lost Ship
“Stationed fast to parentheses of sleep and winter,” Allison Titus’s debut collection, The Sum of Every Lost Ship, probes the emotion of the (nearly) motionless.
Microreview: L. S. Klatt, Cloud of Ink
A bird or beast appears in almost every poem in this collection.
Microreview: Grace Zabriskie, Poems
An authentic and spirited book from a longtime character actor.
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