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Trading Up

Are Latin American populists creating something new that might temper or replace market mechanisms?

Philosophy Politics Science

Bloggers and Parties

Can the netroots reshape American democracy?

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Siblings

A short story. 

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Self-Portrait as Shedding

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Self-Portait as Seismograph

Class & Inequality Law

Organizing the Unorganizable

The unlikely spark for a rebirth of labor

Law Politics

Binational Citizens

Mexican migrants are challenging old ideas about assimilation.

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The Brain’s Tent

Lynette Robert’s Collected Poems.

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ZONED

The Totality for Kids by Joshua Clover.

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Virgil’s Cow

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Dr. Death

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Here

Class & Inequality Politics

Latin America’s Rebellion

Will the new left set a new agenda?

Law Politics

Six Ways to Reform Democracy

Creating a more productive politics for the future.

Law Politics

The Lost Immigration Debate

Border control did not always dictate immigration policy.

Class & Inequality Politics Science

Charles Murray’s New Plan

Ending the welfare state as we know it

Arts in Society

Make It New

Poetry collections from independent presses.

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Microreview: The Poems of Anna Margolin

The first English translation of the Yiddish poet Anna Margolin’s single volume, Lider.

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The Conflict Between the Eyes and the Gaze

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Coup-de-Soleil

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Native Speaker

An Arab citizen of Israel and a native speaker of Palestinian Arabic, Sayed Kashua writes in Hebrew.

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Microreview: Joshua Beckman, Shake

Poems that investigate the notion of the world as good.

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Let my mother conquer me, let her

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Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Matthew Zapruder

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