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Ireland’s Cold War

The struggle over the power of the Catholic Church.

  • Henry Farrell

Militarizing Global Health

Epidemics are not security crises. But the army is often our only tool.

  • Alex de Waal

Islam’s Abortion Debate

Islamic jurisprudence does not encourage abortion, but unlike the Catholic Church, it does not absolutely forbid it.

  • Tom Hundley

Is Pakistan in ISIS’ Crosshairs?

  • C. Christine Fair

The Vultures of Wall Street

The Financial Firms that Prey on Sovereign Debt

  • Saskia Sassen
  • Lisa Lucile Owens

A Better Nation

Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.

  • Stephen Phelan

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The Sistani Factor

How a struggle within Shiism will shape the future of Iraq

  • Mohamad Bazzi

The Moral Siege

The militarization of Jewish supremacism in Israel.

  • Assaf Sharon

Why Haven’t We Talked to Putin?

There is no evidence that U.S. leaders have tried to engage Putin and his inner circle about the crisis in Ukraine.

  • Eugene Rumer

People v. Dole

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

  • Susanna Bohme

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

The Ethics of Being a Fan

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

  • Andrew Mayersohn

A New U.S. Grand Strategy

How to stop the United States from overreaching, overspending, and overcommitting. 

  • Barry R. Posen

World Cup 2014—the Green Edition

The correlation between football and environmental rankings.

Tell Narendra Modi: Human Development is More than GDP

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Why Obama’s $5 Billion Counterterrorism Fund Will Actually Support Terrorism

  • Alex de Waal

Three Assumptions that Led to Kerry’s Failure in the Middle East

The conflict doesn’t need more architects.

  • Assaf Sharon

The Biology of Fatherhood

Men’s hormone levels correlate with their pregnant partners. Some men even experience morning sickness.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

India’s Big Brother Project

The World's Largest Biometrics Identity Program

  • Malavika Jayaram

The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola

Thanks to the teleférico, tourists can comfortably gawk at Brazil's poor.

  • Amy Moran-Thomas

Democracy in South Africa

After twenty years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress, are South African politics finally becoming competitive?

  • Tim Cohen

Can Vladimir Putin Upend Democracy in Europe?

In the face of Putin’s rejection of democracy, Europe’s democrats must underscore the importance of the EU’s norms: social justice, sustainability, diplomacy, diversity, and freedom of movement.

  • Paul Hockenos

Big Tobacco Abroad

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the downside to free trade.

  • Sean McElwee

The Gun Library

An Ethic of Crime in São Paulo

  • Graham Denyer Willis
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