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The Sistani Factor

How a struggle within Shiism will shape the future of Iraq

  • Mohamad Bazzi
Science

Who Cares About Climate Change?

Global warmning doesn’t register highly among Americans’ environmental concerns. 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • David M. Konisky
Arts in Society

A Thousand Labyrinths

Peter Gizzi's In Defense of Nothing

  • Ange Mlinko
Arts in Society

Microreview: Elizabeth Robinson, On Ghosts

Part poetry collection, part essay.

  • Christine Shan Shan Hou
Philosophy Politics

When Protesting Israel Becomes Hating Jews

History has shown time and again that it is not possible to dehumanize an enemy while treating their cousins, aunts, and uncles with respect. 

  • Jason Stanley
Arts in Society

Among the Elements in a Time of War

  • Eamon Grennan

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Poet’s Sampler: Marni Ludwig

Introduced by Andrew Zawacki

  • Marni Ludwig
  • Andrew Zawacki
Arts in Society Philosophy

Measure Words

A cross-cultural reading group in Beijing

  • Drew Calvert
Law Politics

The Moral Siege

The militarization of Jewish supremacism in Israel.

  • Assaf Sharon
Law Philosophy Politics

On Human Shields

If Hamas uses civilian shields, is the IDF responsible for their deaths?

  • Seth Lazar
Science

All Tech Is Social

Concerns about the harms of new devices obscure the ways in which people have long adapted to technologies.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

Two Shorts

  • Edmundo Paz Soldán
  • Kirk Nesset
Politics

Righting the GOP

On Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

  • Mark Schmitt
Arts in Society Class & Inequality

The Nation’s Mayor

Can Julián Castro Stop HUD's Wrecking Balls?

  • Edward G. Goetz
Law Philosophy Politics

Taking Just War Seriously in Gaza

Many more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza than Israelis. Is this, on its own, justified?

  • F. M. Kamm
Arts in Society

Oli Hazzard’s “Beyonsense”

One of the most exciting and original developments in UK poetry in years.

  • Stephen Ross
Arts in Society

Night People

  • Lisa Olstein
Class & Inequality

Market Basket’s Fair Deal

Market Basket is as indispensable in working-class towns as it is in gentrifying and well-off neighborhoods.

  • Simon Waxman
Politics

Burning China’s Garbage

Protests against a new waste management system signals a turning point in Chinese environmentalism.

  • Sarah Hill
Arts in Society

from Odyssey

  • Lindsay Turner
Gender & Sexuality

A Short History of Women in Politics

It is worth pausing to reflect on how women’s participation in politics has changed over the course of American history.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

Microreview: Harryette Mullen, Urban Tumbleweed

The poetry of a flâneuse.

  • Anna Moschovakis
Politics

Why Haven’t We Talked to Putin?

There is no evidence that U.S. leaders have tried to engage Putin and his inner circle about the crisis in Ukraine.

  • Eugene Rumer
Arts in Society

Above the BQE

  • Roy Scranton
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