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State of the Nation: Anti-Semitism and the Economic Crisis

When it comes to the financial crisis, Democrats are especially prone to blaming Jews

  • Neil Malhotra
  • Yotam Margalit

No Ordinary Success

How much can schools improve the life prospects of children growing up in poor neighborhoods?

  • James Forman, Jr.

Malpractice

When it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules.

  • Dean Baker

God’s Work

What can faith-based activism do for labor?

  • Nancy MacLean

The Triangle

Policy wonks, patronage, and the possibilities of the grassroots

  • Michael Gecan

A Response to David Mikhail’s Sleepwalker

We must focus on the laws that continue to put so many noncitizens— including legal residents —into detention and deportation proceedings.

  • Mark Dow

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Sleepwalker

Forgetting Shakir Baloch

  • David Mikhail

Small, Green, and Good

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future.

  • Catherine Tumber

Consensus History

In response to Sanford Levinson’s critique of Constitutional Conventions.

  • William Hogeland

Closing Guantánamo

We need to find a way to address serious and legitimate security concerns without the overkill of a general system of preventive detention for suspected terrorists. 

  • David Cole
with responses from
  • Joanne Mariner
  • Robert Chesney
  • Eric Posner

History Matters, But So Does Politics

A response to William Hogeland’s “Constitutional Conventions.”

  • Sanford Levinson

Free Market Myth

Regulation is everywhere. Let’s choose who benefits.

  • Dean Baker

Tools for a New Economy

We need a new regulatory framework that is capable of stabilizing markets and channeling financial resources away from the speculative casino.

  • Robert Pollin

No New Tax Cuts

A case for big government

State of the Nation: Amazing Race

How post-racial was Obama’s victory?

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • Charles Stewart III

Remembering Randall Forsberg

The originator of the idea of a “nuclear freeze.”

  • Joshua Cohen

The Call of the Tribe

What role should “identity” play in our politics and in our lives?

  • Glenn C. Loury

Constitutional Conventions

Public history should make us think.

  • William Hogeland

The Good Life

According to both a new book and the United Nations’ Human Development Index, the good life is about three things: living long, going to school, and being wealthy.

  • Claude S. Fischer

State of the Nation: Disapproval and Trust

How Americans view their government.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Presidential Crimes

The crimes of the Bush administration must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.

  • Elaine Scarry

The Party’s Over

Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam attempt to provide a blueprint to save Republican politics from wholesale collapse.

  • Lew Daly

In response to Outside the Big Box

National Small Business Association is the leading voice of America’s small-business owners

  • Todd O. McCracken

Guarded Hope

Lessons from the history of the prison boom.

  • Robert Perkinson
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