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Global Justice, Science & Nature

The Political Economy of Saving the Planet

An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics. 

Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin, C. J. Polychroniou

Politics

What Can Elections Do?

Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.

Justin H. Vassallo

Class & Inequality

Six Labor Policies We Need Now

Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.

Erin L. Kelly, Emilio J. Castilla, Thomas A. Kochan, Barbara Dyer, Paul Osterman, Nathan Wilmers

Law & Justice, Politics

What's Next for Abortion Law?

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling is only the latest twist in the convoluted legal history of women’s reproductive rights. The future looks no less partisan.

Mary Ziegler

Politics

Power to the Parliaments

The COVID-19 crisis presents a unique and urgent opportunity to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.

Aslı U. Bâli, Hanna Lerner

Gender & Sexuality

Sexual Violence and Sexual Spectacle

A new book decries moral panics over sexual danger. But in thinking about the MeToo movement, we should not conflate real abuse with mere scandal.

Stephanie Sy-Quia

Gender & Sexuality

Four Ways to Escape a Sex Panic

Allegations against Mayor Alex Morse sought to use a moral panic for political gain. Such manipulations of public sentiment not only harm their intended target, though: they can set back decades of progressive politics.

Kevin Henderson, Joseph J. Fischel

Race

The Literature of White Liberalism

The popular new genre of antiracist nonfiction seeks to educate white readers about race, but it does not center more powerful critiques from the Black radical tradition.

Melissa Phruksachart

Politics

Why We Need Public Journalism

Quality news is essential for democracy. We must stage an intervention to save it.

Magda Konieczna

Politics

The Policy Bedrock of a True New Deal

Five policies we need now.

Felicia Wong

Global Justice, War & Security

The Beirut That Was

The explosion was only the latest tragedy in the city’s long decline.

Helena Cobban

Global Justice

Letter from Beirut

In the wake of the devastating explosion, civil society has shown the way forward—filling the void of a nonexistent and incapacitated state.

Joelle M. Abi-Rached

       

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