Human Rights

Crossing the Line

Latinos are a growing portion of the population, with an increasing capacity to swing outcomes at the ballot box.

  • Tanya Golash-Boza

Defending Freedom of Conscience and Religion Abroad

The Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom responds to criticism.

  • Katrina Lantos Swett

The Good of the Child

Is there actually a right to know one’s biogenetic familial origins?

  • Charlotte Witt

Strapped

My eight years with a gun.

  • Hal Stucker

Muslims Need Not Apply

Disband the International Commission on Religious Freedom

  • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

The Day Wikipedia Went Dark

The free Internet will rise or fall on the involvement and ingenuity of the people, not on courts or lawmakers.

  • Edward Lee

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How Not to Talk about Gaza

Talking about Gaza is like talking about God. We face the ineffable. We cannot talk about what we see.

  • Colin Dayan

The Execution of Carlos DeLuna

Preventing Wrongful Convictions

  • Gabriel O’Malley

Telling Stories about the Stories We Tell

An interview with Philip Gourevitch on Rwanda, the dangers of narrative simplification, and the limits of humanitarianism.

  • Cécile Alduy
  • Philip Gourevitch

Unchecked and Unbalanced

Taking Issue with Jack Goldsmith

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Serbia’s Brokeback Mountain

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

  • Paul Hockenos

Remembering Trouillot

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

  • Colin Dayan

The New Religious Intolerance

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

  • David V. Johnson

How Markets Crowd Out Morals

There are some things money can’t buy—and many things money shouldn’t buy.

  • Michael J. Sandel
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  • Richard Sennett
  • Matt Welch
  • Anita L. Allen
  • Debra Satz
  • Herbert Gintis
  • Lew Daly
  • Samuel Bowles
  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • John Tomasi

What Would Augustine Do?

The President, Drones, and Just War Theory

  • David Luban

Purifying Kashmir

Saudi Arabia exports Salafism to the war-torn region

  • Tariq Mir

Plague of Locusts

Our Failure to Regulate Drone Warfare

  • Richard Falk

Friends and Dictators

Cozying up to central Asia’s most brutal regimes.

  • Tara McKelvey

What’s a Right Without a Remedy?

The Supreme Court may be signaling potential wrongdoers that they can infringe rights with impunity.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Can Apple Shape Up?

Examining the global supply chains and labor practices of the high-tech industry.

  • Dara O’Rourke
  • David V. Johnson

Outing Iran

Publishing news of discrimination against homosexuals in Iran.

  • David William Turner

Poetry Fights Back

Modern Pashtun poetry is a poetry of resistance.

  • Shaheen Buneri

Touching Their Ancestors’ Hands

An Interview with Anne Makepeace.

  • Anne Makepeace
  • Jana Pickart

The Plague

Farmers and settlers clash in South Hebron.

  • David Shulman
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