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Joseph H. Carens leads a forum on immigration, with responses from T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Mae M. Ngai, and Douglas S. Massey.
James Forman, Jr. on the boundaries of school reform; Dean Baker on health care economics; Nancy MacLean on what faith-based activism can do for labor; Stephen Burt on poetry’s “new thing.”
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T. ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF, MAE M. NGAI, PETER H. SCHUCK, ARASH ABIZADEH, CAROL M. SWAIN, GARA LAMARCHE, DOUGLAS S. MASSEY, GERALD L. NEUMAN, RAINER BAUBÖCK, MARY LYNDON SHANLEY, LINDA BOSNIAK, ROGERS M. SMITH, EAMONN CALLAN, JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN, MARC R. ROSENBLUM, ROBERTO SURO, AND A RESPONSE FROM JOSEPH H. CARENS.
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