Editors' Picks

The Online–Sex Predator Panic

Laws Against Online Luring Harm Children

  • Judith Levine

Race and Dignity

Freedom Can’t Be Left to Chance

  • Melvin Rogers

A Servant Heart

How has neoliberalism become so closely linked with evangelical Christianity?

  • James G. Chappel

America’s Refugee Debt

The United States should take responsibility for its actions in Syria

  • Aziz Z. Huq

“Female Viagra” Is No Feminist Triumph

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

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

Our Own Private Disaster

Terrible Schools Are Great for Business

  • Erik Loomis

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Forensic Pseudoscience

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

  • Nathan J. Robinson

Inequality Is Not Our Fate

The way back to an egalitarian society.

  • Stuart White

To Hell with Good Intentions

School reform is failing America’s children.

  • Rob Reich

Resisting Antibiotics

The social challenges of drug reform

  • Robert Bud

Ghost in the Machine

Is digital life soulless or the site of a new transcendence?

  • Jenny Hendrix

The Unseen Threat of Capital Mobility

Off-shoring, tax havens, and other scourges of globalization.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

Come On Up, Sweetheart

James Baldwin’s letters to his brother.

  • Ed Pavlić

The Failure of Refugee Camps

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Washed Away

Remembering Japan’s tsunami.

  • Stephen Phelan

End of the Wild

The extinction crisis is over. We lost.

  • Stephen M. Meyer
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