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Law Politics

Ten Years After Bush v. Gore

The case casts a shadow far beyond the Court’s election-law docket.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

From the Editors: January/February 2011

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Politics

Unsafe Seats

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Politics

The Heinrich Maneuver

The success of the New Mexico freshman. 

  • Andrew Schrank
Class & Inequality Law Philosophy

Legerdemath

In my time working at Citigroup, I learned how to connive customers.

  • Omer Rosen
Class & Inequality Law Politics

Heckuva Job

After the Charles Keating scandal, I thought Darrel Dochow would never supervise banks again. I was wrong.

  • Richard Newsom

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Gender & Sexuality Law Philosophy Politics Race

No Objections

What history tells us about remaking marriage

  • Nancy F. Cott
Arts in Society Law Politics

Saving Souls

David Grossman’s article of faith.

  • Vivian Gornick
Law Race

Harm’s Way

Our penal system, with its black tinge, constitutes a profound racial injustice. But is it a new form of Jim Crow?

  • James Forman, Jr.
Class & Inequality Politics

Business As Usual

We’re just biding time for the next Wall Street collapse.

  • Jonathan Kirshner
Arts in Society

Guinea Pig

Having been freed from my skin, I can’t exactly find my way back.

  • Charles Johnson
Arts in Society

Our Poems, Ourselves

Does autobiography make good poetry?

  • Stephanie Burt
Arts in Society

Microreview: Rachel Loden, Dick of the Dead

An investigation into American sexual and political consciousness with Nixon at its center. 

  • Fred Muratori
Arts in Society

Microreview: Kate Greenstreet, The Last Four Things

Poems preoccupied with details: the concrete, physical materials of future and past. 

  • Sara Femenella
Arts in Society

Microreview: Ken Cheng, Juvenilia

A collection that walks the high wire between deeply felt trauma and poetic artifact.

  • Sumita Chakraborty
Arts in Society

Microreview: Monica Youn, Ignatz

Humor and love act like cat and mouse in this collection.

  • Nick Admussen
Arts in Society

Microreview: Barbara Claire Freeman, Incivilities

Poems whose power to depict the zeitgeist rivals the iconic image making of Dorothea Lange.

  • Virginia Konchan
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Monica Mody

  • Monica Mody
  • Joyelle McSweeney
Arts in Society

invasion of the body snatchers

  • Nick Flynn
Arts in Society

forgetting something

  • Nick Flynn
Arts in Society

Nativity

  • Carolyn Forché
Arts in Society

The Insentientist

  • Stephanie Adams-Santos
Arts in Society

Poem In a Book That Was Never Opened

  • Timothy O’Keefe
Arts in Society

My Daughter’s Body

  • Jennifer Franklin
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