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Choose Your Choice

The Great American Obsession with Choices

  • Claude S. Fischer

Reclaiming Politics

Solving Problems Washington Won’t

  • Michael Gecan

The Failure of Thought Leadership

Fareed Zakaria and the plagiarism scandal.

  • David V. Johnson

Unchecked and Unbalanced

Taking Issue with Jack Goldsmith

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Tax and Cut

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

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Founding Fathers, Founding Villains

As soon as there was a Constitution, fights about its meaning began.

  • William Hogeland

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Sizing Up the Race

Stephen Ansolabehere on the Election

  • David V. Johnson
  • Stephen Ansolabehere

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

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

Names, Trains, and Corporate Deals

Why Public Transit Shouldn’t Sell Naming Rights

  • Frank Pasquale

Stockton Goes Bust

A Municipal Bankruptcy, in Pictures

  • Susie Cagle

Men’s Tennis Is More Interesting Than Women’s

But It Doesn’t Have To Be

  • David V. Johnson

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

Know Where You Stand

How Informing the Voters Helps the Democrats

  • Anthony Fowler
  • Michele Margolis

The Leisure Gap

Why Don’t Americans Take Vacations?

  • Claude S. Fischer

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

A New Hamiltonianism

An Interview with Michael Lind

  • Michael Lind
  • John Stoehr

A Court of Her Own

An Interview with Pam Karlan

  • Pamela S. Karlan
  • David V. Johnson

How to Be Poor

The “culture of poverty” isn’t about moral failure but about reasonable adaptation to circumstances.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Exterminate the Brutes

Your pit bull is too violent to live—even if it isn’t.

  • Colin Dayan

Capitalism and the Urban Struggle

An Interview with David Harvey

  • David Harvey
  • David V. Johnson

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

State of the Nation: No Middle Ground

America’s Growing Income Segregation

  • Kendra Bischoff
  • Sean F. Reardon
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