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The New World of William Carlos Williams
Adam Kirsch
His influence on our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to do
Can We Have a Democratic Election?
Elizabeth Drew
Beneath the turbulent political spectacle that has captured so much of the nation’s attention lies a more important question than who will get the Republican nomination, or even who will win in November: Will we have a democratic election this year? Will the presidential election reflect the will of the people? Will it be seen as doing so—and if not, what happens? The combination of coordinated efforts underway to manipulate the election and unlimited amounts of unaccountable money from private or corporate interests involved in those efforts threatens the democratic process for picking a president.
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