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Teacher Feature: Ma Rainey’s Blues

  • Evie Shockley
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Teacher Feature

Poet-teachers on teaching poetry

  • Boston Review
Law Science

Technology Derailed

How for-profit industry is risking railway safety.

  • Bryce Emley
Arts in Society Politics

The Futility of Liberal Backlash to Trump

He thrives on his opponents’ outrage.

  • Sam Rosen
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“The days that were have now”

—Gilgamesh

  • Emilia Phillips
Race

Cuba After the Thaw

Worsening Inequality for Afro-Cubans and Women

  • Michelle Chase

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Science

Greening the Global Economy

Greening the economy is not only possible but necessary: global economic growth depends on it.
 

  • Robert Pollin
Arts in Society

Reading the 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist

Poetry from Claudia Rankine, Mark Doty, Les Murray, Sarah Howe, and more.

  • Dai George
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Blooming, Buzzing Experience

The Wonders subverts the typical female coming-of-age story.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Poet’s Sampler: Uyen Hua

  • Uyen Hua
  • Chris Nealon
Politics

What Future for South African Democracy?

Student protests and the deepening crisis of the post-apartheid order

  • Vito Laterza
  • Ayanda Manqoyi
Philosophy Politics Science

The New Nature

It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?

  • Jedediah Britton-Purdy
with responses from
  • Jo Guldi
  • Jairus Grove
  • Robert Paarlberg
  • Andreas Malm
  • David Keith
  • Anna Tsing
  • Ugo Mattei
  • Vandana Shiva
  • Paul Waldau
  • Roy Scranton
Law Science

Weaponizing Syria’s Water

For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.

  • Alisa Reznick
Philosophy Politics

Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?

A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.

  • Richard Kreitner
  • Sanford Levinson

From the Editors: January/February 2016

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Arts in Society

The Wheel

A missed rendezvous, a red-eye to Hong Kong . . .

  • Samantha Leese
Arts in Society

On Styrofoam

  • Zoë Hitzig
Arts in Society

don’t you worry ’bout a thing*

  • erica lewis
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In Deep and Out Far

On Solitude and Vitality

  • David Baker
Politics

We’re Going to Cuba! (Or not.)

Travel to the island nation won’t be what you’re picturing.

  • Sarah Hill
Arts in Society Law

Speaking in Tongues

Serving time in Richmond City Jail.

  • Dave Byrne
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Two Poems

  • Cole Swensen
Politics

As EU Technocrats Falter, the French Right Gains

The Front National is not in government, but it’s still making gains.

  • Arthur Goldhammer
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Two Poems

Translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

  • Tomaž Šalamun
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