Messin’ with Texas
When self-serving political insiders control the redistricting process, you get one big headache. Just ask the Lone Star State.
In the News
The iEconomy: The New York Times is publishing an investigative series on the globalized hi-tech industry and its manufacturing and labor practices.
What we can do as consumers of these products to push needed reforms? Read our forum “Citizen Consumer,” with lead essay by Dara O’Rourke and responses by Auret van Heerden, Richard M. Locke, and others.
A Better Deal
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama staked his reelection bid on a raw form of populism.
Citizen Philosophers
All Brazilians are required to study philosophy. Will it make any difference to their democracy?
All Together Now
Poetry is often thought of as the premier genre of isolation, but four new books reach out.
A World on Fire
Life and Death in a New Orleans Squat
Hear Danelle Morton discuss her story on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and WBUR’s Here and Now.
Longtime BR contributor Martha Nussbaum discusses Creating Capabilities with California Lawyer Magazine’s Martin Lasden.
essays
The Return of Inequality
Occupy Wall Street has transformed the 2012 election.
Ari Paul—Web only
Digital Culture Wars
SOPA and the Fight for Control of Online Content
Frank Pasquale—Web only
Not So Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature
Claude S. Fischer
A World on Fire
Life and Death in a New Orleans Squat
Danelle Morton
A Shared Fate
The Political Implications of the Eurozone Crisis
Jan-Werner Müller—Web only
The People and the Patriots
Who Led Whom in the American Revolution?
Alfred F. Young
fiction
Mutts
Duchess, the dog that Jack and his dad brought home, is sitting by the kitchen table in a pair of women’s underpants.
David Riordan
Unpacking
Ben Katchor’s The Cardboard Valise
John Crowley
Sites of interest: Personal Loans
Forums
The Future of Black Politics
Black movements have historically led the fight for social and economic justice. It is time to rebuild black politics, argues Michael C. Dawson.
A forum on the power and potential of black movements, with responses from William Julius Wilson, Andra Gillespie, Tommie Shelby, Rev. Patrick H. O’Connor, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, Dorian T. Warren. Dawson replies.
State of the Nation
The Brown Majority
America’s dramatic demographic shift
Stephen Ansolabehere
A World Apart
There are still two Americas
Ryan D. Enos
poetry
Some Novelties of Stagecraft
Matthew Gagnon
Poet’s Sampler
Introduced by Katy Lederer
Iris Cushing
The Bicameral Eyeball
John Ashbery
The Sound of It, Spring
Elizabeth Gramm
Poetry Microreviews
Books by Laura Solomon, Lisa Fishman, Eugenijus Ališanka, Albert Mobilio, and Shira Dentz
More Poetry & Poetry Criticism
On Film
An Acquired Taste
Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk about Kevin
Alan A. Stone
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