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Lawrence Lessig leads a forum on Citizens United and the corruption of Congress; Will Wilkinson, David N. Bossie, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Rep. Donna F. Edwards, and others respond.
Tom Barry on Texas’s out-of-control border security apparatus; Vivian Gornick on the tumultuous Tolstoy marriage; William Hogeland on the war between populists and liberals; poems by Mary Jo Bang and Arthur Vogelsang.
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DAVID DONNELLY, DAVID N. BOSSIE, NANCY L. ROSENBLUM, MARVIN AMMORI, DONNA F. EDWARDS, WILL WILKINSON, ALLISON R. HAYWARD, CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY, JOHN BONIFAZ AND JEFFREY CLEMENTS.
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