The Problems with Polls

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Samuel Earle
The Problems with Polls

Political polling’s greatest achievement is its complete co-opting of our understanding of public opinion, which we can no longer imagine without it.

Gary Younge
Scapegoating the Immigrant

In the aftermath of anti-immigrant riots this summer, the British government has refused to confront the root cause of the violence and cracked down on immigration instead.

Slip

a poem by
Frances Leviston

Oblivion lives in a matte black dustbin
in the corner of Julie’s studio.
Lid on, it eclipses itself, a Buddha
beneath notice, waiting under primitive
shelves laden with pots-in-progress:
leather-hard or biscuit-fired, provisionally
painted, the stoneware mute…

Carolina A. Miranda
Mythic Chaps

Two recent exhibitions in Denver reveal how many legends and surprising realities coexist in the idea of the American cowboy.

Ikhtisad Ahmed
A New Chapter for Bangladesh?

When student protesters ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, they not only ended fifteen years of her authoritarian rule but also challenged her party’s self-serving nationalism.

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