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Arts in Society Politics Race

White Leghorns

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

  • Colin Dayan
Science

What Lies Deep

The Higgs boson was just the beginning of what CERN might find.

  • Matthew Buckley
Law Race

Paying for Punishment

Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.

  • Donna Murch
Arts in Society

Kind Permission

Almost tonight, let’s not and say
     we did.
I used to be a slightly handsome
     boy, then
this happened. . . .

  • John Ashbery
Science

Closing in on the Higgs

The history of false alarms leading up to the final discovery.

  • Matthew Buckley
Class & Inequality Science

Unraveling the Silicon Valley Consensus

Startups aren’t the magic bullet for economic growth.

  • Ben Armstrong

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Class & Inequality Politics

Common Property

How social insurance became confused with socialism.

  • Elizabeth Anderson
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: b: william bearhart, introduced by Natalie Diaz

Because two brothers make a
     body where none existed
God drew two bodies as one
     went crooked . . .

  • b: william bearhart
  • Natalie Diaz
Class & Inequality Philosophy Politics

Do Government Incentives Make Us Bad Citizens?

Government incentives may make us less moral, not more.

  • John McMahon
Class & Inequality Politics

The Forgotten State

Local government can’t fix our problems. Only big government can.

  • Mike Konczal
Arts in Society

The Passions

Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash.

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

Paul Park’s Hidden Worlds

Paul Park’s fantasy troubles the line between fiction and reality.

  • John Crowley
Race

Racial Violence in Black and White

Images of violence against African Americans have a radical heritage as instruments of critique.

  • Benjamin Balthaser
Science

When (Quantum) Worlds Collide

A close look at one massive experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

  • Matthew Buckley
Gender & Sexuality Politics

The Logic of Misogyny

Moralistic or not, misogyny is not about hating women. It is about controlling them.

  • Kate Manne
with responses from
  • Imani Perry
  • Susan J. Brison
  • Amber A'Lee Frost
  • Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Doug Henwood
  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Vivian Gornick
Arts in Society

The Sound of Her Voice

Sarah Howe interviewed by Lily Blacksell

  • Sarah Howe
  • Lily Blacksell
Arts in Society

Summer Poetry Reading

New books to savor in the summer sun.

  • Boston Review
Law Politics

Waiting at Guantánamo

After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.

  • Henry Ace Knight

From the Editors: July/August 2016

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Arts in Society

The Siege

I asked my husband to let the woman go.

  • Shruti Swamy
Arts in Society

What Have We Done?

David Baker's virtuosic poems express ideas through the senses.

  • Sherod Santos
Arts in Society

A Different Mountain

Review of Rebecca Wolff's One Morning—

  • Alan Gilbert
Law Politics

Brexit Threatens World Peace and Security

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

  • Alex de Waal
Law Politics Race

Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?

The country needs a political rebirth.

  • Mahmood Mamdani
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