Elizabeth Sanders is a professor of government at Cornell University and the author of Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (University of Chicago Press, 1999). Seth Bensel owns a small business in Ithaca, N.Y., and is a lifelong environmentalist.
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In the Dark About Light
Our streetlight problem.
Elizabeth Sanders and Seth Bensel