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Reforming Health Care


Race for a Cure

Our health-care system is failing. What will save it?
Jill Quadagno

The Common Interest

Is it time for national health insurance?
John Geyman

Getting Covered

Choose a plan everyone can agree on
Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs

The Primary Solultion

Put doctors where they count
Barbara Starfield


Essays


Mexico's Race Problem

And the real story behind Fox's faux pas
Claudio Lomnitz

Knowing Our Minds

Why some philosophers say we can't
Alex Byrne

After the Double No

The EU's best hope
Jan-Werner Müller

The Auditors

Bad intelligence and the loss of public trust
Hugh Gusterson

New Fiction Forum

Orphan

T.E. Holt

Little Criminals

Three rediscovered novels by Richard Hughes
John Crowley

Other People's Grief

Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days
Jan Clausen

On Film

Choosing Love

Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Eighth Annual Poetry Contest

This year's winner: Mike Perrow
Mark Strand

A Poet's Hope

The works of Paul Celan
Marjorie Perloff

Fatal Affliction

Saskia Hamilton's Divide These
Raymond McDaniel

Microreviews

Poems

Chamber Heart

Anne Dude, translated by Andrew Shields

Site

John Kinsella

The Circle of the Fifths

Catherine Meng

A Set Piece

Jesse Ball

Endless Topic

Richard Meier

Composite after Three Poems in the Same Anthology

Rafael Campo

Waste Capital

Giles Goodland

Double Sonnet

Dara Wier

Poet's Sampler: Christin Call

introduced by Albert Goldbarth



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