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Class & Inequality Science

The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz

Remembering one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.

  • Sarah Hill
Politics Race

A Reading List for Radical Political Action

  • Derecka Purnell
  • Boston Review
Class & Inequality Science

Get Carbon Off Campus

A Reply to David G. Victor

  • Benjamin Franta
Arts in Society

Ferguson

Once there was a boy who thought it a noble idea to lie down in the middle of the street and sleep. . . .

  • Major Jackson
Law

Syria after the Ceasefire

Negotiations may ease the humanitarian crisis—while strengthening Assad.

  • Stephen Zunes
Class & Inequality Race

Black Study, Black Struggle

The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
with responses from
  • Derecka Purnell
  • Randall L. Kennedy
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Christopher Lebron
  • Barbara Ransby
  • Shana L. Redmond
  • Charlene Carruthers
  • Aaron Bady
  • Michael Eric Dyson
  • Amanda Boston
  • Bridget Todd
  • Thabisile Griffin

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Class & Inequality Politics

Why Spain Won’t Quit the Eurozone

Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.

  • Mark Weisbrot

Black Study, Black Struggle

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
Arts in Society Gender & Sexuality Race

Pauli Murray, Beloved Radical

Crusading for black rights, women’s equality, and gender non-conformity.

  • Kenneth W. Mack

From the Editors: March/April 2016

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Politics Race

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the United States to confront its long-submerged id.

  • Simon Waxman
Arts in Society

The Volatile I

Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry finally gets the English translation it deserves.

  • Johannes Göransson
Law Politics Science

The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties

We need new privacy law for the digital age.

  • Neil M. Richards
Arts in Society

The Words,

  • Mark Irwin
Arts in Society

The Visigoths

Zoloft and Paxil and Prozac. Daily pills to save us from defeat.

  • Olivia Clare
Law

Going Nowhere

A new law needlessly brands sex offenders’ passports

  • Judith Levine
Law Science

Should We Trust Forensic Science?

Forensic Experts Respond to Nathan J. Robinson

  • Wesley Vernon
  • Michael Nirenberg
  • Nathan J. Robinson
Arts in Society Gender & Sexuality

Lola Ridge: The Radical Modernist We Won’t Forget Twice

The past-due revival of Lola Ridge: poet, editor, feminist, and political activist.

  • Terese Svoboda
Arts in Society

Selected Poems by Lola Ridge

  • Lola Ridge
Arts in Society

These Miles

  • Aaron Coleman
Arts in Society Politics Science

Survey Says . . .

Polling can be useful, even when imprecise

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

“Luminaires” and “The City of Fremont Streets Department”

  • John Mullen
Class & Inequality Science

Carbon on Campus

Does fossil fuel divestment work?

  • David G. Victor
Arts in Society

“moon as my witness” and “scrapers parody buddha”

  • Amber Atiya
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