Human Rights

Citizen Consumer

A small percentage of consumers have already moved a portion of the market toward more sustainable practices. But the larger promise of ethical consumption remains unmet.

  • Dara O’Rourke
with responses from
  • Scott Nova
  • Juliet B. Schor
  • Lisa Ann Richey & Stefano Ponte
  • Scott E. Hartley
  • Margaret Levi
  • Auret van Heerden
  • Andrew Szasz
  • Richard M. Locke

A Little Help

Rahman, a native of Pakistan, was wrongfully accused of aiding would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. 

  • David William Turner

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Using privilege to challenge the state.

  • Noam Chomsky

It Takes Two

In contrast to Loving v. Virginia, on the same-sex marriage issue the Court may have to make a decision before a national consensus emerges.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Known Unknowns

Deliberations in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.

  • Basil Katz

No Objections

What history tells us about remaking marriage

  • Nancy F. Cott

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The Worst of the Worst

On supermax torture in America.

  • Lance Tapley

Our Man in Guatemala

An eminent medical historian discusses two major, blatantly unethical studies the U.S. government conducted on syphilis patients in Guatemala and Alabama.

  • Susan Reverby

At War In Texas

Federal border policy is now effectively dictated by alarmist border-area sheriffs and politicians.

  • Tom Barry

Dreaming of a Free Iran

Akbar Ganji accepts the Friedman Prize.

  • Akbar Ganji
  • Hamid Dabashi

Man of Principle

The Passions of Arthur Koestler.

  • Roger Boylan

The Obligation to Prosecute

Why we must prosecute the Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture.

  • Elaine Scarry

Remembering Haiti

In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake, an anthropologist reflects on his fieldwork in Haiti fifty years earlier.

  • Sidney W. Mintz

The Trial of Ezra Nawi

A peace activist faces judgment in Israel.

  • David Shulman

Do the Right Thing

An anti-genocide policy that works.

  • Sarah Sewall

The Best Hope–Still?

Despite large obstacles, Obama is right to push the two-state solution.

  • Jeremy Pressman

Sleepwalker

Forgetting Shakir Baloch

  • David Mikhail

Common Cause

Real help for Iranian democrats.

  • Abbas Milani

History Matters

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians

  • Joseph Levine

The Mirror

Imagining justice in Palestine.

  • Elias Khoury

The Unending War

On Argentina’s quest for justice.

  • Sam Ferguson

Half a Man

Gender apartheid in Iran.

  • Akbar Ganji

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

  • Colin Dayan

Within Reach of the State

Though both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions.

  • Owen Fiss
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