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Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Mark Strand

Over a long and distinguished career, with honors that include a Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. Poet Laureateship, Mark Strand has compiled a body of poems that display a remarkable unity of vision and variety of content.

  • Mark Strand
  • Nicholas Christopher
Arts in Society

Hearing

  • Joshua Trotter
Arts in Society

The Exile

  • Ben Mazer
Arts in Society

Album, c. 1930

  • Marjorie Welish
Arts in Society

Dear Crown

  • Michael Hansen
Arts in Society

Monody

  • Diana S. Adams

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Arts in Society

River Caskets

  • Diana S. Adams
Arts in Society

The Witch

  • Elizabeth Willis
Law Politics

Known Unknowns

Deliberations in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.

  • Basil Katz

From the Editors: March/April 2011

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Politics

Weak Tea

Tea Party-endorsed Republicans didn't do much better than non-endorsed Republicans. Many did worse. 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • James M. Snyder, Jr.
Law

In Tahrir

The Egyptian revolution, viewed from the center of Cairo.

  • Ahmed Moor
Law Science

The Health Care Challenge Threatens All Regulation

 If Congress had voted to provide every American with health care through a national health service, that new law would be safe from constitutional challenge.

  • Pamela S. Karlan
Law Politics

Securing Arizona

What Americans Can Learn From Their Rogue State

  • Tom Barry
Law Philosophy Science

Passing Through

Why the Open Internet Is Worth Saving

  • Evgeny Morozov
Arts in Society Philosophy

How to be Happy

The ethics of David Foster Wallace.

  • Leland de la Durantaye
Arts in Society

Into the Breach

China Miéville’s other reality.

  • Henry Farrell
Class & Inequality Law Politics

Capitol Insiders

Solidarity and Sleepovers in Madison

  • Leigh Elion
Arts in Society

Drowned Out

Julie Taymor’s The Tempest

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

You Are Free

Lara had not had the heart to tell the old lady that the bridge was not really made of gold.

  • Danzy Senna
Class & Inequality Politics

The Wrong Crisis

The FCIC forgets the housing bubble

  • Dean Baker
Class & Inequality Race

Poor Reason

Culture still doesn’t explain poverty.

  • Stephen Steinberg
Class & Inequality

Back to Full Employment

It is fundamental to building a decent society—and we can get there.

  • Robert Pollin
with responses from
  • Reihan Salam
  • James K. Galbraith
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • Eileen Appelbaum
  • Andrew P. Morris & Roger E. Meiners
  • Lane Kenworthy
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Michael J. Piore
Law Politics Science

Robocop

Drones at home.

  • Joseph Nevins
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