Editors' Picks

I Can’t Breathe

Black people get sicker because of stereotypes taught in medical schools.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Genetic Panopticon

DNA is a powerful forensic tool. If only crime labs could be trusted with it.

  • Brandon L. Garrett

The Search for New Physics at CERN

Are we on the verge of unsettling our most basic theory of the physical world?

  • Matthew Buckley

Writing Under Surveillance

On the subversive fiction of East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig.

  • Tyler Curtis

The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz

Remembering one of the century’s great anthropologists and teachers.

  • Sarah Hill

Get Carbon Off Campus

A Reply to David G. Victor

  • Benjamin Franta

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Pauli Murray, Beloved Radical

Crusading for black rights, women’s equality, and gender non-conformity.

  • Kenneth W. Mack

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the United States to confront its long-submerged id.

  • Simon Waxman

Going Nowhere

A new law needlessly brands sex offenders’ passports

  • Judith Levine

Survey Says . . .

Polling can be useful, even when imprecise

  • Claude S. Fischer

Carbon on Campus

Does fossil fuel divestment work?

  • David G. Victor

As a God Might Be

The recurring—and often conflicting—narratives of technology and progress.

  • Meghan O’Gieblyn

Beyond Freedom and Equality

The democratic value of dignity.

  • Nick Bromell

Pigs

Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.

  • Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

The Struggle for Accountability in Flint

Michigan law shields decision-makers from public scrutiny

  • Anna Clark

How Refugees Can Save Europe

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

  • Paul Linden-Retek

Rethinking Evolution

Symbiosis, not just gradual change, may lie at the heart of how evolution works.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

For Love of Country

Is emotion the key to the good society?

  • Shivani Radhakrishnan

The Futility of Liberal Backlash to Trump

He thrives on his opponents’ outrage.

  • Sam Rosen

Cuba After the Thaw

Worsening Inequality for Afro-Cubans and Women

  • Michelle Chase

What Future for South African Democracy?

Student protests and the deepening crisis of the post-apartheid order

  • Vito Laterza
  • Ayanda Manqoyi

Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?

A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.

  • Sanford Levinson
  • Richard Kreitner

Speaking in Tongues

Serving time in Richmond City Jail.

  • Dave Byrne

As EU Technocrats Falter, the French Right Gains

The Front National is not in government, but it’s still making gains.

  • Arthur Goldhammer
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