Politics

Tax and Cut

A remarkable thing happened in U.S. politics last year.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Sizing Up the Race

Stephen Ansolabehere on the Election

  • David V. Johnson
  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Art for Politics’ Sake

Claire Bishop on Social Practice

  • Corinne Segal

The Future of U.S. Health Care

The Affordable Care Act is at once a monumental accomplishment and a sprawling, confusing, Gorgon-headed workaround.

  • Andrea Louise Campbell

This Machine Helps Fascists

Split on Greek Left Aids Nationalist Golden Dawn Party

  • Ari Paul

Undoing the Wrack

Without campaign finance reform it is difficult to see how America’s problems can even be addressed, much less dealt with.

  • Gore Vidal

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Stockton Goes Bust

A Municipal Bankruptcy, in Pictures

  • Susie Cagle

Under the Influence

Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.

  • Martin Gilens
with responses from
  • Larry M. Bartels
  • Matthew Yglesias
  • Kay Lehman Schlozman
  • Mark Schmitt
  • Nancy L. Rosenblum
  • John Ferejohn
  • Barbara Sinclair
  • Russ Feingold
  • Archon Fung
  • Michael Gecan

Under the Influence

Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.

  • Martin Gilens

Know Where You Stand

How Informing the Voters Helps the Democrats

  • Anthony Fowler
  • Michele Margolis

Forty Years After Watergate

The Decades-Long Fight Against Political Money

  • Pamela S. Karlan

‘Obamacare’ Is Constitutional, But …

Pam Karlan on the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling

  • David V. Johnson
  • Pamela S. Karlan

What to Do About Inequality

We need to do more than raise taxes on the rich. We have to correct the market failures in labor and education that generate it.

  • David B. Grusky
with responses from
  • Rick Perlstein
  • Mike Konczal
  • Shikha Dalmia
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • Thomas Piketty & Emmanuel Saez & Stefanie Stantcheva
  • Barbara R. Bergmann
  • Neal McCluskey
  • Susan E. Mayer
  • Anne L. Alstott
  • Glenn C. Loury

A New Hamiltonianism

An Interview with Michael Lind

  • Michael Lind
  • John Stoehr

The Salafi Question

Egypt’s Constitutional Moment

  • Amitai Etzioni

A Court of Her Own

An Interview with Pam Karlan

  • Pamela S. Karlan
  • David V. Johnson

Islam in America

Video of an Ideas Matter event held at MIT on May 15, 2012

  • John R. Bowen
  • Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Christopher Lydon

When the Umpire Throws the Pitches

The Court is not simply deciding which cases to hear, but is also directing the parties to address issues the justices want to take up.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

My Dinner with Andrew Breitbart

Breaking bread with the right’s bad boys.

  • Bill Ayers

The Future of Black Politics

With black civil society in retreat, how can we rebuild black politics?

  • Michael C. Dawson
with responses from
  • William Julius Wilson
  • Andra Gillespie
  • Tommie Shelby
  • Rev. Patrick H. O’Connor
  • Jennifer L. Hochschild
  • Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres
  • Dorian T. Warren
  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Contraception and Counterrevolution

An Interview with Corey Robin

  • Corey Robin
  • David V. Johnson

The Cure

Can doctors change how they think?

  • Suzanne Gordon

Crime and Punishment

Public safety doesn’t require more inmates.

  • Bruce Western

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on student loan debt, academia, and the value of education.

  • David Graeber
  • David V. Johnson
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