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The Logic of Misogyny

Moralistic or not, misogyny is not about hating women. It is about controlling them.

  • Kate Manne
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  • Imani Perry
  • Susan J. Brison
  • Amber A'Lee Frost
  • Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Doug Henwood
  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Vivian Gornick

Waiting at Guantánamo

After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.

  • Henry Ace Knight

Government Under Review

Could peer review for public servants make the law more consistent?

  • Daniel E. Ho
  • Becky Elias

Lynching by Any Other Name

Prosecutors are corrupting the intent of lynching laws.

  • Christopher Lebron

From “War on Crime” to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s crime commission.

  • Elizabeth Hinton

Reversal of Fortune

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

  • Claude S. Fischer

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Orlando: What’s God Got to Do with It?

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

  • Michael Bronski

The Problem of Punishment

Rapists should be held accountable. But is more incarceration the best way?

  • Judith Levine

That Lonesome Whistle

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

  • Candice Delmas

As American as Trump

European analogies are everywhere, but Trump fits squarely in the homegrown tradition.

  • Cas Mudde

Jefferson: Hero or Villain? It’s Complicated.

It is almost impossible to grasp how much Thomas Jefferson believed in progress.

  • Richard Kreitner

Trump and the End of Everything

Trump will have done real damage even if he doesn’t win.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

I Was Hacked by ISIS

With terrorism scares aplenty, how worried should one be?

  • Judith Levine

The Religious-Liberty Attack on Transgender Rights

Conservative Christians are out to restore their historical legal privileges.

  • David Sehat

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

Bad police were not simply a symptom of racism. They were often its agents.

  • Daniel Geary

What Good Is History for African Americans?

To be useful, it has to help us think about who we should become as a nation.

  • Melvin Rogers

What’s in a Name?

Yale’s president can’t make something less racist by fiat.

  • Karléh Wilson

Should the Middle Class Fear the World’s Poor?

Plutocracy, not global competition, harms the middle class.

  • Marshall Steinbaum

The Base

With Bernie Sanders’s campaign reeling, what’s next for progressive activists?

  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Fifty Years Ago, the Government Said Black Lives Matter

The radical conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report.

  • Julian E. Zelizer

The Not-So-Revolutionary Single Woman

The family is changing. Will the social contract catch up?

  • Jessa Crispin

What Is Education For?

Above all, preparing students for civic and political engagement.

  • Danielle Allen
with responses from
  • Carlos Fraenkel
  • Deborah Meier
  • Michel DeGraff
  • Debra Satz
  • Lelac Almagor
  • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
  • Lucas Stanczyk
  • Rob Reich
  • Clint Smith

The Privatization of Hope

Among the casualties of neoliberalism is the very possibility of solidarity.

  • Ronald Aronson

The Language of Violence

The effects of revolutionary violence on Chinese poetry.

  • Nick Admussen
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