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Class & Inequality Politics

Tools for a New Economy

We need a new regulatory framework that is capable of stabilizing markets and channeling financial resources away from the speculative casino.

  • Robert Pollin
Class & Inequality Politics

No New Tax Cuts

A case for big government

Arts in Society

The Mind’s Eye

Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

Water Damage

Two new collections challenge lyric's decorum.

  • Amelia Klein
Arts in Society

Revelation

Readers of Barbara Guest should receive the publication of her Collected Poems with joy and relief.

  • Brian Teare
Arts in Society

As One Bereft of Reason

  • Ken White

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Arts in Society

Topics for Amplification

  • Brett Fletcher Lauer
Arts in Society

Objects

  • Martha Ronk
Arts in Society

Fragment 941: Aphrodite of Kypros

—Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE)

  • Reginald Gibbons
Arts in Society

Dies Irae

  • L.S. Asekoff
Arts in Society

I Would Remain by Night with You

  • Joanna Klink
Arts in Society

Sunday balustrade

translated from the German by J.D. Schneider

  • Ron Winkler
Arts in Society

Money Shot

  • Rae Armantrout
Arts in Society

Win

  • Rae Armantrout
Arts in Society

Icicles Tine Barnward from the Barn’s Shallow Eave

  • Rob Schlegel
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Brandon Shimoda

  • Brandon Shimoda
  • Karen Volkman
Politics Race

State of the Nation: Amazing Race

How post-racial was Obama’s victory?

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • Charles Stewart III
Law

A Tribe Apart

Afghan elites face a corrosive past.

  • Barnett R. Rubin
Law Politics

Common Cause

Real help for Iranian democrats.

  • Abbas Milani
Arts in Society Philosophy Politics

God

Philosophers weigh in.

  • Alex Byrne
Arts in Society

Up High in the Air

A short story. 

  • Laura van den Berg
Arts in Society

Worldmaker

Remembering Thomas Disch.

  • John Crowley
Arts in Society

Poison Flow

Edward St. Aubyn takes on the English upper class.

  • Neel Mukherjee
Arts in Society

Review: The Monster Loves his Labyrinth and That Little Something

Two new books by Charles Simic.

  • Nicholas Harp
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