Poetry Fights Back

Pashtun poetry versus the Taliban
Shaheen Buneri

The Return of Inequality

How the Occupy Movement Shifted Electoral Politics
Ari Paul—Web only

Digital Culture Wars

SOPA and the Fight for Control of Online Content
Frank Pasquale—Web only

Touching Their Ancestors’ Hands

An Interview with Anne Makepeace
Jana Pickart—Web only

The Networked Era

An Interview with Michael Nielsen
Lindsey Gilbert—Web only

Not So Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Steven Pinker’s Good News
Claude S. Fischer

Reclaiming the Republic

An Interview with Lawrence Lessig
David V. Johnson—Web only

Unpacking

Ben Katchor’s The Cardboard Valise
John Crowley

Violence and Human Progress

A Correspondence on Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature
Morgan Meis and S. Abbas Raza—Web only

Occupation as Fairness

What John Rawls Would Make of the Occupy Movement
Joshua Cohen and Seth Resler—Web only

The Plague

Farmers and Settlers Clash in South Hebron
David Shulman—Web only

A Shared Fate

The Political Implications of the Eurozone Crisis
Jan-Werner Müller—Web only

The People and the Patriots

Who Led Whom in the American Revolution?
Alfred F. Young

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Serve the establishment or challenge power?
Noam Chomsky

Return to Haiti

Two years after the earthquake
Colin Dayan

Politics by Other Means

In Egypt, Street Protests Set the Agenda
Mona El-Ghobashy

Containing Outrage

How Police Power Tames the Occupy Movement
Alasdair Roberts—Web only

The Return of States’ Rights

Why Rick Perry is important even if he loses
Tom Barry

We Are All Khaled Said

On the Facebook page that fueled the Egyptian revolution
Anver M. Emon, Ellen Lust, and Audrey Macklin—Web only

Dancing to the Port

At the Occupy Oakland general strike
Danelle Morton—Web only

The Cost of Death

Capital punishment has distorted the criminal justice system.
Pamela S. Karlan

Where Love Grows

Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot
Leland de la Durantaye—Web only

What Would Emma Do?

An Interview with Vivian Gornick
David V. Johnson—Web only

What State? Whose Authority?

Palestinians on the bid for statehood at the United Nations.
Mya Guarnieri—Web only

Wronged Without Recourse

Supreme Court precedent forces the government’s hand on worker rights.
Jessica Garrick and Andrew Schrank—Web only

Bugger Off

The FBI, Backdoors, and Spying Online
Evgeny Morozov

Unfair Advantages

Selling asymmetric warfare at the drones trade show.
Joseph Nevins—Web only

Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protests

A dispatch from Union Square (with video)
Jeanne Mansfield—Web only

My Hungry Soul

Alfred Kazin’s journals
Vivian Gornick

Constructive Responsibility

Archon Fung—Web only

End of the Road

Al Qaeda is dying but the Global War on Terror is not.
Fawaz A. Gerges

Noam Chomsky discusses democracy and American hegemony in the Arab world.

State of the Nation

The Brown Majority

On America’s shifting demographics
Stephen Ansolabehere

A World Apart

There are still two Americas
Ryan D. Enos

Railroad Blues

Congressional redistricting favors Republicans
Jonathan Rodden and Jowei Chen

Republicans’ 2012 Electoral Problem

On the growing Hispanic vote
Stephen Ansolabehere

Run For Office

Who are our elected officials?
Stephen Ansolabehere

Weak Tea

Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder, Jr.

Unsafe Seats

The decline of incumbency
Stephen Ansolabehere

The Heinrich Maneuver

Andrew Schrank

Urban Legends

William Rankin

Elections Foretold

Stephen Ansolabehere

Early and Often

Stephen Ansolabehere and Eitan Hersh

A Divisive Agenda

Stephen Ansolabehere

What Happened in Massachusetts

800,000 reasons democrats
should worry
Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart III

The State of Boston

A mayoral election special
Stephen Ansolabehere

The Supreme Court

What do Americans think about property, punishment, and privacy?
Stephen Ansolabehere

Getting Warmer

Jon Krosnick, Ariel Malka, and David Scott Yeager

How to vote (and what for)

Stephen Ansolabehere

On Film

An Acquired Taste

Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin
Alan A. Stone

Mock Star

Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
Alan A. Stone

Imagining Faith

Terrence Mallick’s The Tree of Life
Alan A. Stone

Bin Laden: The Movie

The director of The Hurt Locker takes on the mastermind of 9/11.
Alan A. Stone

Hello, Columbus

Icíar Bollaín’s Even the Rain
Alan A. Stone

Drowned Out

Julie Taymor’s The Tempest
Alan A. Stone

Forgiving Woody

Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Alan A. Stone

All of Humanity

On filming King Lear
Alan A. Stone

The Rebel

Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love
Alan A. Stone

Curtain Call

Marco Bellochio’s Vincere
Alan A. Stone

Kingpin

Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet
Alan A. Stone

Sins of the Father

Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon
Alan A. Stone

The Jewish Question

The Coen brothers’ A Serious Man
Alan A. Stone