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A Street Divided

The Long Life of Segregation

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In San Bernardino, a Crime—Not an Act of War

The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.

  • Joseph Margulies
Law Politics

A Rock and a Hard Place

The neglect and abuse of Pakistan’s tribal areas.

  • Umar Farooq
Arts in Society

The Maker

  • J. Estanislao Lopez
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The Online–Sex Predator Panic

Laws Against Online Luring Harm Children

  • Judith Levine
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Race and Dignity

Freedom Can’t Be Left to Chance

  • Melvin Rogers

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Law

Paris in Terror

On France’s long history of political violence.

  • Julian Bourg
Arts in Society

A Brief History of the Human Ear

  • Bruce Bond
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2015 Poetry Contest Winner: Safiya Sinclair

  • Cathy Park Hong
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Philosophy Politics

The Riptide of Technocracy

Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?

  • Jonathan White
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A Servant Heart

How has neoliberalism become so closely linked with evangelical Christianity?

  • James G. Chappel
Law Race

Righteous Indignation in Ferguson

In Ferguson, white violence, exclusively, is justified.

  • Simon Waxman
Arts in Society

Archive Fever

  • Hai-Dang Phan
Law Philosophy Politics

America’s Refugee Debt

The United States should take responsibility for its actions in Syria

  • Aziz Z. Huq
Gender & Sexuality

Campus Rape Rules Are About Punishment, Not Sex

Yes-means-yes will not encourage good sex. It will not discourage good sex. It is irrelevant to good sex.

  • Judith Levine
Arts in Society

Winter Poetry Reads

New poetry from Simone Muench, Cecily Parks, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Rick Barot, and Deborah Landau

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Politics

Assassinating Terrorists Does Not Work

It creates more violent terrorists and leaves no one who can talk peace.

  • Alex de Waal
Gender & Sexuality Science

“Female Viagra” Is No Feminist Triumph

It’s an ineffective drug for a disease that may not exist

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
Class & Inequality Race

Our Own Private Disaster

Terrible Schools Are Great for Business

  • Erik Loomis
Arts in Society

Courtyard Fire

  • Arthur Sze
Law Politics

The Limits of Criminal Justice Reform

Reducing prison populations isn’t enough. We need a new criminal system founded on priniciples of justice rather than fear of crime.

  • Joseph Margulies
Law Science

Forensic Pseudoscience

Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.

  • Nathan J. Robinson
Law Politics

Going Negative

The Importance of Judicial Dissent

  • Thomas Healy
Arts in Society

I Am Karl Marx

  • Jen Levitt
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