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Books by four poets about big modern systems whose results and failures seem inescapable.

Sara Mayeux on Newt Gingrich's attempt to shut down the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Liza Featherstone on the education justice movement and Occupy USA, Jamie Raskin on fostering socially responsible businesses

Randall Kennedy is fascinated by a paradox: the color line's persistence and its seeming implosion.

Baltimore and New York are requiring crisis pregnancy centers to disclose basic information about their services. But some judges say these ordinances violate the First Amendment.

The forty-ninth edition of the New York Film Festival.

Too many Americans have fallen prey to narratives that erase the role of slavery in the war’s origins and legacy.

Undocumented immigrants and gays and lesbians have forced a stark moral choice on their friends and neighbors: Are you with us, or against us?

The liars and lunatics serve as a smoke screen for the conservative war on the poor and the middle class.

The Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress talks about spontaneous demonstrations, his hope for poetry, and why he doesn't read criticism anymore.