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Arts in Society Politics

Art for Politics’ Sake

Claire Bishop on Social Practice

  • Corinne Segal
Arts in Society Politics

Home for the Eid

Ramadan in Cairo and Istanbul

  • Ahmed Moor
Politics Science

The Future of U.S. Health Care

The Affordable Care Act is at once a monumental accomplishment and a sprawling, confusing, Gorgon-headed workaround.

  • Andrea Louise Campbell
Politics

This Machine Helps Fascists

Split on Greek Left Aids Nationalist Golden Dawn Party

  • Ari Paul
Arts in Society Race

The White Correspondent’s Burden

Today, the “savage nature” of Africa is still on display.

  • Jina Moore
Philosophy Politics

Undoing the Wrack

Without campaign finance reform it is difficult to see how America’s problems can even be addressed, much less dealt with.

  • Gore Vidal

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Class & Inequality

I, Too, Have Messed with LIBOR

Toying with the Immutable Laws of Finance

  • Omer Rosen
Arts in Society

The Well

The well is poisoned, he says on the phone one week; then, another week, it’s drying up.

  • Amy Benson
Arts in Society

Serbia’s Brokeback Mountain

Srđan Dragojević’s film about the aspirations of gay Serbs may finally be puncturing a culture of homophobia.

  • Paul Hockenos
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Science

Names, Trains, and Corporate Deals

Why Public Transit Shouldn’t Sell Naming Rights

  • Frank Pasquale
Law Politics Race

Remembering Trouillot

He taught us all how to read carefully, argue passionately, and write responsibly.

  • Colin Dayan
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Politics

Stockton Goes Bust

A Municipal Bankruptcy, in Pictures

  • Susie Cagle
Arts in Society

Forgetful Pleasures

Michel Houellebecq’s exciting tale of boredom.

  • Marta Figlerowicz
Arts in Society Law Politics

The New Religious Intolerance

An interview with Martha Nussbaum on the growing anti-Muslim agitations in Europe and the United States.

  • David V. Johnson
Arts in Society

Men’s Tennis Is More Interesting Than Women’s

But It Doesn’t Have To Be

  • David V. Johnson
Arts in Society

The Piano

The winning story of the  2012 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

  • Alexandra Thom
Politics

Under the Influence

Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.

  • Martin Gilens
with responses from
  • Larry M. Bartels
  • Matthew Yglesias
  • Kay Lehman Schlozman
  • Mark Schmitt
  • Nancy L. Rosenblum
  • John Ferejohn
  • Barbara Sinclair
  • Russ Feingold
  • Archon Fung
  • Michael Gecan
Class & Inequality Politics

Under the Influence

Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.

  • Martin Gilens
Politics

Know Where You Stand

How Informing the Voters Helps the Democrats

  • Anthony Fowler
  • Michele Margolis
Law

Juárez Rebounds . . . Sort of

From 2008 until 2011, Juárez was among the world’s most violent cities.

  • Sarah Hill
Class & Inequality

The Leisure Gap

Why Don’t Americans Take Vacations?

  • Claude S. Fischer
Law Politics

Forty Years After Watergate

The Decades-Long Fight Against Political Money

  • Pamela S. Karlan
Law

War Is Betrayal

Persistent Myths of Combat

  • Chris Hedges
Arts in Society

Arcadia for the Aged

John Madden, the distinguished British director of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, tells us that his film has the structure of a Shakespearean comedy.

  • Alan A. Stone
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