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Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.
Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.
The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities. Rather than court venture capital, cities must build new institutions to grow neighborhood wealth.
On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.
Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
German leaders have responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, breaking with the culture of pacifism that emerged after World War II and marking a new wave of militarization.
As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
Alongside select archival essays, this special project features lawyers, activists, historians and more responding to the demands of the 2020 uprisings.
there is nothing but performance; the language that stretches to capture us all
I begin to feel my body rise / and I can believe / in what freedom must feel like.
To not have had the luxury to think “the world is over,” but to feel it instead.
My grandmother tells me she loved you fiercely
in the way she reaches for me when your name
is spoken.
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities. Rather than court venture capital, cities must build new institutions to grow neighborhood wealth.
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says “it’s the economy, stupid.” The truth is more complicated.
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.
This special project begins with a world in crisis—after forty years of market fundamentalism—and asks how we build a new one.
Is equality of opportunity enough, or does it turn a blind eye to structural injustice?
In a neoliberal age that prizes personal responsibility and individual merit, the ideal of equal opportunity has been called into question. Taking equality seriously, critics argue, means aiming to ensure that we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have equal shots at upward mobility. That means rethinking a range of social institutions, from education and land ownership to finance and neighborhood development. This issue explores new wave of egalitarian thinking that emphasizes the importance of outcomes, not just opportunities.
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