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It is fundamental to building a decent society—and we can get there.

  • Robert Pollin
with responses from
  • Reihan Salam
  • James K. Galbraith
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • Eileen Appelbaum
  • Andrew P. Morris & Roger E. Meiners
  • Lane Kenworthy
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Michael J. Piore

Robocop

Drones at home.

  • Joseph Nevins

Ten Years After Bush v. Gore

The case casts a shadow far beyond the Court’s election-law docket.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Unsafe Seats

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

The Heinrich Maneuver

The success of the New Mexico freshman. 

  • Andrew Schrank

Midterm Postmortem

 The Democrats suffered a historic defeat.

  • Eric McGhee
  • Brendan Nyhan
  • John Sides

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The Deficit Commission’s Parallel Universe

The failings of the Simpson-Bowles report

  • Dean Baker

Acting Out

The question is not whether federal judges should strike down popularly enacted policies, but when.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Making Muslim Democracies

The history of Christian Democracy provides reasons for optimism and lessons for the future in Turkey. 

  • Jan-Werner Müller

At War In Texas

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

  • Tom Barry

Originalism Spells the Death of the U.S. Constitution

The median lifespan of a national constitution is roughly the life expectancy of a Great Dane. Why has the U.S. Constitution endured? In part because judges have escaped the stranglehold of originalism.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Real Americans

Repeatedly in U.S. history, liberalism and populism have defined themselves by rhetorical rejection of the other.

  • William Hogeland

State of the Nation: Elections Foretold

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Democracy after Citizens United

The framers intended Congress to be “dependent upon the People alone,” but the private funding of public campaigns has bred within Congress a conflicting dependency.

  • Lawrence Lessig
with responses from
  • Will Wilkinson
  • Marvin Ammori
  • David Donnelly
  • David N. Bossie
  • Allison R. Hayward
  • John Bonifaz & Jeffrey Clements
  • Representative Donna F. Edwards
  • Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
  • Nancy L. Rosenblum

Mind the Gap

Are the harms of economic inequality primary psychological?

  • Claude S. Fischer

Dreaming of a Free Iran

Akbar Ganji accepts the Friedman Prize.

  • Akbar Ganji
  • Hamid Dabashi

State of the Nation: What happened in Massachusetts

Scott Brown’s victory over Martha Coakley sent shock waves through the electoral landscape.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • Charles Stewart III

Past Forward

Coping with post–Cold War Romania.

  • Paul Hockenos

Obama’s Chicago Tactics

The Chicago way of doing politics.

  • Michael Gecan

The Big Bank Theory

How government helps financial giants get richer

  • Dean Baker

All Bark, No Bite

The Decline of Germany’s Social Democrats

  • Clay Risen

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul.

  • Vivian Gornick

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq.

  • Nir Rosen

Stories and Stats

The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers.

  • Andrew Gelman
  • John Sides
with responses from
  • Rick Perlstein
  • Michael C. Dawson
  • Richard Johnston & Emily Thorson
  • Mark Schmitt
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