Politics

Dominance and Its Dilemmas

The Bush administration’s imperial grand strategy.

  • Noam Chomsky

Exit Strategy

In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam.

  • James K. Galbraith

The Patriot Act on Campus

Defending the university after 9/11

  • Jonathan R. Cole

The Hard Road to Fascism

Today’s antiliberal revolt looks a lot like 1920s Europe.

  • Abbott Gleason

Brazil’s Hope

Can President Lula redeem democracy in Latin America?

  • Leonardo Avritzer

Weapons of Mass Confusion

The new emphasis on WMDs has not been accompanied by any serious public discussion of the differences among such weapons.

  • Owen R. Cote, Jr.

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The Blame Game

Almost unanimously, Democrats and liberals are pointing the finger at third-party candidate, Ralph Nader. 

  • George Scialabba

The Diaspora and the Intifada

The responsibility of American Jews.

  • Ben-Zion Gold

Violence, Terror, and Politics as Usual

America’s “new war” reflects an epochal change in the nature of collective violence.

  • Charles Tilly

Fenced In

As Arafat declines and Israel’s grip tightens, the Middle East sinks into hopelessness.

  • Helena Cobban

Policing Disorder

Can we reduce serious crime by punishing petty offenses?

  • Bernard E. Harcourt

South Park

New-economy drivel leaves a San Francisco neighborhood high and dry.

  • Neil Shister

Review: Crossing Over

Reporting from the border zones. 

  • Scott Saul

The Place of Tolerance in Islam

On reading and misreading the Qur’an.

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • Amina Wadud
  • John L. Esposito
  • Sohail H. Hashmi

The Case for Binationalism

Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.

  • Lama Abu-Odeh
with responses from
  • Helena Cobban
  • Leonard Fein
  • Louis Michael Seidman
  • Ian S. Lustick
  • Ebrahim Moosa
  • Efraim Karsh
  • Jerome M. Segal
  • Salim Tamari

What Comes After Welfare Reform?

How we can ensure economic security for all Americans

  • J. Larry Brown
  • Larry W. Beeferman

What’s Wrong with Missile Defense

 An interview with Ted Postol.

  • Joshua Cohen

Why the Right Wins

Two books tell compatible tales of two smallish groupings that made history move.

  • Todd Gitlin

Beyond the Civil Rights Industry

Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.

  • Eva T. Thorne
  • Eugene F. Rivers III
with responses from
  • Lani Guinier
  • Cathy J. Cohen
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Ronald J. Sider
  • Alan Wolfe
  • Julianne Malveaux
  • Ellen Willis
  • Peter Dreier
  • Manning Marable

No Revolution Without Counterrevolution

On Arno Mayer’s The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.

  • Corey Robin

The American Jobs Machine

Is the new economy creating good jobs?

  • Erik Olin Wright
  • Rachel Dwyer

Ethics and Equality

Egalitarianism must be understood as part of a more encompassing view of how best to live.

  • Stuart White

The Liberal Intelligence

Lionel Trilling was not a neoconservative. He was the very best kind of liberal.

  • George Scialabba

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad
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