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Matters of Choice

Scholar and retired Army officer Andrew Bacevich on the U.S. war for the Greater Middle East

  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Stephen Kinzer

On Stone Mountain

Bill Clinton, white supremacy, and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.

  • Christopher Petrella

“We Called That Touch”

Race and the Intimate Tangle of American Experience

  • Ed Pavlić

The Roots of Black Incarceration

A nineteenth-century memoir sheds light on the origins of the modern prison.

  • Joy James

I Can’t Breathe

Black people get sicker because of stereotypes taught in medical schools.

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Genetic Panopticon

DNA is a powerful forensic tool. If only crime labs could be trusted with it.

  • Brandon L. Garrett

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Get Carbon Off Campus

A Reply to David G. Victor

  • Benjamin Franta

Black Study, Black Struggle

The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley
with responses from
  • Derecka Purnell
  • Randall L. Kennedy
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Christopher Lebron
  • Barbara Ransby
  • Shana L. Redmond
  • Charlene Carruthers
  • Aaron Bady
  • Michael Eric Dyson
  • Amanda Boston
  • Bridget Todd
  • Thabisile Griffin

Pauli Murray, Beloved Radical

Crusading for black rights, women’s equality, and gender non-conformity.

  • Kenneth W. Mack

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the United States to confront its long-submerged id.

  • Simon Waxman

The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties

We need new privacy law for the digital age.

  • Neil M. Richards

Going Nowhere

A new law needlessly brands sex offenders’ passports

  • Judith Levine

Should We Trust Forensic Science?

Forensic Experts Respond to Nathan J. Robinson

  • Wesley Vernon
  • Michael Nirenberg
  • Nathan J. Robinson

Survey Says . . .

Polling can be useful, even when imprecise

  • Claude S. Fischer

Carbon on Campus

Does fossil fuel divestment work?

  • David G. Victor

Beyond Freedom and Equality

The democratic value of dignity.

  • Nick Bromell

The Struggle for Accountability in Flint

Michigan law shields decision-makers from public scrutiny

  • Anna Clark

Trump and Cruz Battle for Evangelical Hearts

Spiritual warfare on the campaign trail.

  • Laura Premack

Technology Derailed

How for-profit industry is risking railway safety.

  • Bryce Emley

The Futility of Liberal Backlash to Trump

He thrives on his opponents’ outrage.

  • Sam Rosen

Cuba After the Thaw

Worsening Inequality for Afro-Cubans and Women

  • Michelle Chase

Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?

A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.

  • Richard Kreitner
  • Sanford Levinson

Speaking in Tongues

Serving time in Richmond City Jail.

  • Dave Byrne

A Street Divided

The Long Life of Segregation

  • Claude S. Fischer
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