Politics

State of the Nation: Tax and Spend

What do you most want congress to do to balance the budget? 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

On the troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

  • William Hogeland

Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas

  • Paul Hockenos

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American Liberalism

  • Lew Daly

Revolution

The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh.

  • Nicholas Schmidle

Days of Lies and Roses

Selling out Afghanistan

  • Sarah Chayes

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The Geography of Poverty

Democrats missed the opportunity to rethink the social compact.

  • Dalton Conley

Bloggers and Parties

Can the netroots reshape American democracy?

  • Henry Farrell

Latin America’s Rebellion

Will the new left set a new agenda?

  • Claudio Lomnitz

Six Ways to Reform Democracy

Creating a more productive politics for the future.

  • Luis Ricardo Fraga
  • Archon Fung
  • Heather Gerken
  • Samuel Issacharoff
  • Pamela S. Karlan
  • Alex Keyssar

The Lost Immigration Debate

Border control did not always dictate immigration policy.

  • Mae M. Ngai

Charles Murray’s New Plan

Ending the welfare state as we know it

  • Dalton Conley

Age of Anxiety

The old ideas won't work in the war on terror.

  • Kevin Mattson

The Rebel and Mr. Danger

Is Bush’s nightmare Venezuela’s salvation?

  • Greg Grandin

Hamas’s Next Steps

Finding the road to Palestine.

  • Helena Cobban

The Brotherhood

How far will Egypt’s Islamists go? 

  • Stephen Glain

Freedom Reigns

But it isn't enough.

  • Nick Bromell

The Citizens of Porto Alegre

Participatory budgeting has become a school of democracy in Brazil.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

The Nation in a Room

Turning public opinion into policy.

  • James S. Fishkin

Learning from Athens

Success by design.

  • Josiah Ober

The Drifters

Why the Supreme Court Makes Justices More Liberal

  • Jon D. Hanson
  • Adam Benforado

After the Double No

The EU’s best hope

  • Jan-Werner Müller

Christ’s Militia

How evangelical Protestantism came to dominate American religion.

  • Gary B. Nash

Compassion Capital

Bush’s faith-based initiative is bigger than you think.

  • Lew Daly
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