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Special Projects

Grappling with some of the most critical issues of our times, our four ongoing series invite leading writers to contribute essays to the public discussion.

This project debates the ideal of equal opportunity, bringing together economists, philosophers, historians, and policymakers to imagine a just society after neoliberalism—and the way to get there.
This series asks how we build a new world after forty years of market fundamentalism.
In the wake of the 2020 uprisings in the United States following the murder of George Floyd, demands for democratic power over policing—including police and prison abolition—have entered public consciousness with full force and considerable support. Alongside select archival essays,
We’ve brought together all our COVID-19 coverage in one place. Here you’ll find the latest arguments from doctors and epidemiologists, philosophers and economists, legal scholars and historians, activists and citizens, as they think not just through this moment but beyond

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