Occupy the Future

A forum on the Occupy movement, from the perspective of Stanford professors

With essays by Rob Reich and Debra Satz, David Laitin, Kenneth Arrow, Sean Reardon, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Prudence Carter, David Palumbo-Liu, Michele Elam and Jennifer DeVere Brody, David Grusky, Cristobal Young, Don Barr, Gary Segura, Frances Zlotnick, and Doug McAdam.

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Citizen Consumer

A forum on using ethical consumption for social change
Dara O’Rourke

With resposes from Scott Nova, Juliet B. Schor, Lisa Ann Richey & Stefano Ponte, Scott E. Hartley, Margaret Levi, Auret van Heerden, Andrew Szasz, and Richard M. Locke, and a final reply from O’Rourke.

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Libertarianism and Liberty

A forum on arguments for libertarian policy conclusions
T.M. Scanlon

With responses from Brad DeLong and Will Wilkinson, and a final reply by Scanlon—Web only

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Regime Change Doesn’t Work

A forum on military interventions
Alexander B. Downes

With responses from Greg Grandin, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Neta C. Crawford, James D. Fearon, Mary Kaldor, John Tirman, Tod Lindberg, and Joanne Landy. Alexander B. Downes replies.

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Leadership, Free to Lead

A forum on campaign-finance reform
Gov. Charles “Buddy” Roemer

With responses from Adam Bonica, Richard Briffault, Sheila Krumholz, Michael J. Malbin, and Warren Rudman. Gov. Roemer replies.—Web only

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China’s Other Revolution

A forum on political and social change in China
Edward S. Steinfeld

With responses from Andrew G. Walder, Helen H. Wang, Baogang He, Ying Ma, and Guobin Yang. Edward S. Steinfeld replies.

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Fixing Congress

A forum on reforming the legislative branch
U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper

With responses from Kenneth A. Shepsle, Norman J. Ornstein, John Samples, Kathryn Pearson, John G. Geer, David Brady, Nick Nyhart, U.S. Rep. David E. Price, Stephen Ansolabehere, Andrew Gelman, and Dana Houle. Jim Cooper replies.

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Small Changes, Big Results

Applying behavioral economics to global development
Rachel Glennerster & Michael Kremer

With responses from Diane Coyle; Eran Bendavid; Pranab Bardhan; José Gómez-Márquez; Chloe O’Gara; Shantayanan Devarajan, Jishnu Das, and Jeffrey S. Hammer; and Daniel N. Posner. Rachel Glennerster and Michael Kremer reply.

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Back To Full Employment

Making Jobs Public Policy
Robert Pollin

With responses from James K. Galbraith, Andrew P. Morris & Roger E. Meiners, Lane Kenworthy, Jayati Ghosh, Eileen Appelbaum, Michael J. Piore, Reihan Salam, and Ruy Teixeira. Robert Pollin replies.

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Can Technology End Poverty?

How ICT can advance global development
Kentaro Toyama

With responses from Nicholas Negroponte, Dean Karlan, Ignacio Mas, Nathan Eagle, Jenny C. Aker, Christine Zhenwei Qiang, Evgeny Morozov, and Archon Fung. Kentaro Toyama replies.

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Democracy After Citizens United

What do do about the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision
Lawrence Lessig

With responses from David Donnelly, David N. Bossie, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Marvin Ammori, Donna F. Edwards, Will Wilkinson, Allison R. Hayward, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, John Bonifaz and Jeffrey Clements. Lawrence Lessig replies.

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Mothers Who Care Too Much

What feminists get wrong about family, work, and equality
Nancy J. Hirschmann

With responses from Shannon Hayes, Robin West, Lisa Dodson, Melody Berger, Ann Friedman, Mona Harrington, Lane Kenworthy, and Ann L. Alstott. Nancy J. Hirschmann responds.

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Big Pharma, Bad Medicine

How corporate dollars corrupt research and education
Marcia Angell

With responses from Adriane Fugh-Berman, David Korn, Howard Brody, Dan W. Brock, Emma D'Arcy, Suzanne Gordon, and David Bollier. Marcia Angell responds. A letter from Frank Britt and Marissa Seligman.
Thomas P. Stossel on the value of academic-industry relationships.

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Something from Nothing

U.S. strategy in Afghanistan

Nir Rosen

With responses by Helena Cobban, Syed Saleem Shahzad, J. Alexander Thier, Andrew Exum, Aziz Hakimi, and Andrew J. Bacevich. Nir Rosen responds. Web-only: Richard W. Miller, and Rajan Menon continue the discussion.

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Development in Dangerous Places

If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow.

Paul Collier

With responses by Stephen D. Krasner, William Easterly, Larry Diamond, Edward Miguel, Mike McGovern, and Nancy Birdsall.
Paul Collier responds.

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“American Inequality”—BR contributor Archon Fung addresses the Occupy Harvard Teach-in. (December 7, 2011)

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Closing Guantánamo

The problem of preventive detention

David Cole

With Web-only responses by Joanne Mariner, Eric Posner and Robert Chesney

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The Rules

Government’s proper role in the market

Eliot Spitzer

With responses by Dean Baker, Robert Johnson, and Sarah Binder, Andrew Gelman, and John Sides. Eliot Spitzer responds.

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Investigative Special

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq
Nir Rosen

A Death in Texas

Profits, poverty, and immigration converge
Tom Barry

God, The Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?
Tara McKelvey

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Stories and Stats

The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers

Andrew Gelman and John Sides

With responses by Rick Perlstein, Richard Johnston and Emily Thorson, Mark Schmitt, and Michael C. Dawson. Gelman and Sides respond.

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The Case for Amnesty

Time erodes the state’s right to deport

Joseph Carens

Read responses in this forum by our panel of immigration experts, including T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Marc Rosenblum, Mae M. Ngai, Roberto Suro, Carol M. Swain, and others.

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