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Stalin’s Long Shadow

On Leonardo Padura’s The Man Who Loved Dogs.

  • Michelle Chase
Arts in Society

Nation and Body

Julie Carr's Rag

  • Karinne Keithley Syers
Arts in Society

East Jerusalem

  • David Gorin
Class & Inequality

Solving New York City’s Housing Crisis

For centuries, governments have used eminent domain to override dysfunctional contract or property arrangements.

  • Robert C. Hockett
Science

Of Maggots and Brain Scans

Brain images are ubiquitous and compelling, but the science behind them is not.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
Politics

Taking the Government for Granted

Corruption of the system certainly occurs, much too often, but stands out precisely because it is not the norm.

  • Claude S. Fischer

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Arts in Society

High Notes

  • Vona Groarke
Arts in Society

Two Travelers

  • James Longenbach
Arts in Society

Cheap Signaling

Class conflict and diction in avant-garde poetry

  • Daniel Tiffany
Law Science

People v. Dole

Dole used a pesticide that rendered banana workers sterile. Why is it so hard to litigate?

  • Susanna Bohme
Politics

Trench Democracy in Schools #3: An Interview with Principal Vanessa Gray

Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

  • Albert W. Dzur
Gender & Sexuality

A Hobby Lobby Afterthought

The Supreme Court never agreed that access to contraceptives is a compelling government interest. The consequences may be significant.

  • Simon Waxman
Arts in Society

Runaway Tongue

  • Douglas Kearney
Politics

The Presbyterian Church’s All-American Divestment from the Israeli Occupation

The Church is taking charge of the role its own funds play in enabling the criminality of Israel.

  • Yarden Katz
Arts in Society

Microreview: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, TwERK

The tension between hype and substance. 

  • Mia You
Arts in Society

Are You Jewish?

John Turturro's Fading Gigolo.

  • Alan A. Stone
Law Science

Don’t Lose Track: Here’s What’s Going On with the NSA

The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.

  • Elizabeth Goitein
Law Politics

Don’t Lose Track: Here’s What’s Going On with the NSA

The newest report sees nothing illegal about warrantless collection of Americans’ international calls and e-mails.

  • Elizabeth Goitein
Arts in Society

Samuel Beckett, the Early Years

A lost story shows the young writer struggling in Joyce's shadow

  • Roger Boylan
Arts in Society

Where My Body Has Been

  • Regina DiPerna
Arts in Society

The Ethics of Being a Fan

Sports are an excellent tool for thinking through tricky ethical and political questions.

  • Andrew Mayersohn
Law Politics

A Business Can Exercise Religion, but Hobby Lobby Still Gets It Wrong

Why did the Supreme Court extend religious exercise rights to for-profit corporations?

  • Kiel Brennan-Marquez
Class & Inequality Philosophy Politics

The Neoliberal Bailout

Sure, the system worked—we avoided another Great Depression. But it worked much better for some than for others. 

  • Jonathan Kirshner
Class & Inequality Politics

Build the Green Economy

1.2% of the GDP. That’s all it would take to green the economy.

  • Robert Pollin
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  • Madeline Janis
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  • George R. Tynan & David G. Victor
  • Reed Hundt
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