Politics

Why the Success of the Rest is Good for America

Charles Kenny's The Upside of Down.

  • Ali Wyne

The Landscape of Campaign Finance Reform

Lawrence Lessig walked across New Hampshire to put campaign finance reform back on the national agenda.

  • Andrew Mayersohn

Who’s Hot?

Looking ahead to the 2014 midterm elections.

  • John Sides
  • Michael Tesler

Soft Power in Nigeria

The U.S. is funding development in restive Northern Nigeria, but soft power isn't blunting anti-American sentiments.

  • Ameto Akpe

The Larger Lesson of Huckabee’s Comments on Women

The larger Republican rhetorical strategy.

  • Elizabeth Bruenig

Walking on Ice to Clean Up Congress

Lessig’s New Hampshire rebellion.

  • Archon Fung

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Libertarianism Is Very Strange

Outside the fantasy novels of Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein, libertarianism does not make much anthropological or historical sense. 

  • Claude S. Fischer

Transparency Is Not the Government’s Responsibility

The problem is that it is not anybody else’s responsibility, either.

  • Andrew Mayersohn

Trench Democracy in Public Administration: an Interview with Kimball Payne

Study circles for race and racism in Lynchburg.

  • Albert W. Dzur

Inequality: Is Obama Serious About Economic Justice?

President Obama seems comfortable pursuing cooperation, but not redistribution.

  • John Stoehr

On Evgeny Morozov

“I hate the word ‘problematizer,’ but it leaps to mind when I think about Evgeny.”

  • Joshua Cohen

Do Game Changers Matter?

Political science and political reporting.

  • Lynn Vavreck

Obama Got the Law Right and the Politics Wrong

His ACA employer mandate delay was constitutional—why didn’t he say so?

  • Louis Fisher

How De Blasio’s Real Estate Choices Can Save NYC

Cities can make decisions. Cities can set their own priorities. Cities can resist the self-interested categories of those with extraordinary wealth.

  • Michael Gecan

Can Greece’s SYRIZA Change Europe’s Economy?

The biggest threat to Greece’s left-wing coalition is itself.

  • Yanis Varoufakis

Scarcity Can Help Us Rethink Social Policy…and Campaigns

Scarcity lays the foundation for thinking differently about poverty.

  • Glenn C. Loury

Gandhi and the Affordable Care Act

He didn’t believe in short-cuts.

  • Glenn C. Loury

What Are Radicals Good For?

An interview with George Scialabba on utopia, the hive mind, reviewers, and intellectuals.

  • Lindsey Gilbert
  • George Scialabba

Illiberal Reform

Why Did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Fail?

  • Lisa Blaydes

Letter from Israel: Leftists on Zionism’s Past, Present, and Future

While “left” in the West is now a virtual synonym for anti-Zionism, the same is far from true in Israel.

  • Susie Linfield

Ayatollah Khamenei and the Destruction of Israel

Including translations of Khamenei’s speeches from 1990 to the present.

  • Akbar Ganji

Rodolfo Walsh and the Struggle for Argentina

Before In Cold Blood, there was Operation Massacre.

  • Stephen Phelan

A Guide to the Affordable Care Act

Who are you in the eyes of the ACA?

  • Deborah Stone

Defrosting the Cold War with Iran

What will it take to revive U.S.-Iran relations?

  • Akbar Ganji
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