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In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine.
Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.
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Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.
Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.
How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.
Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says “it's the economy, stupid.” The truth is more complicated.
For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.
They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.
Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.
The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.
Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.
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