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Tag: Politics

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

Daniel Williams

Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.

Anthony Morgan, Amna A. Akbar, Bernard E. Harcourt

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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.

Christine Sypnowich

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

Jonathan S. Gould, Jacob S. Abolafia

Tax breaks for investors don’t help poor communities.

Timothy Weaver

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Will Holub-Moorman

How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.

Simona Foltyn

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says “it's the economy, stupid.” The truth is more complicated.

Pranab Bardhan

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

Alex Raskolnikov

They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.

Jeremy Pressman

Contemporary life has been deeply molded by financialization. But the speculative imagination can also be a tool for building a more just world.

Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

James G. Chappel

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Ira Katznelson

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Christopher Newfield

In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.

Omar Dajani, Aslı U. Bâli

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