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In San Bernardino, a Crime—Not an Act of War

The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.

  • Joseph Margulies

The Online–Sex Predator Panic

Laws Against Online Luring Harm Children

  • Judith Levine

Race and Dignity

Freedom Can’t Be Left to Chance

  • Melvin Rogers

A Servant Heart

How has neoliberalism become so closely linked with evangelical Christianity?

  • James G. Chappel

Our Own Private Disaster

Terrible Schools Are Great for Business

  • Erik Loomis

The Limits of Criminal Justice Reform

Reducing prison populations isn’t enough. We need a new criminal system founded on priniciples of justice rather than fear of crime.

  • Joseph Margulies

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Forensic Pseudoscience

Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.

  • Nathan J. Robinson

Going Negative

The Importance of Judicial Dissent

  • Thomas Healy

In Memory of Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015)

The revolutionary theorist sought not liberal stability but democratic adventure.

  • Anne Norton

Historical Method and the Noble Lie

Mass incarceration is so politicized that we can't talk about its origins.

  • Michael Javen Fortner

Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration?

Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

  • Donna Murch

Hail to the Pencil Pusher

American bureaucracy’s long and useful history.

  • Mike Konczal

Just Deserts

Americans seem likelier than other Westerners to believe the world is fair.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Football on the Corporate Campus

Big-money college sports are symptomatic of larger shifts in the moral economy of higher education.

  • Robert L. Kehoe III

Open Letter to the People of the United States of America

Iranian citizens urge Americans to support the U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement.

Learning from the Watts Rebellion

Half a century on, we need to recommit ourselves to correcting the conditions that undergirded the civil unrest of the 1960s.

  • Sekou Franklin

Too Much Information

Making Transparency Good for You

  • Elena Fagotto
  • Archon Fung

The Future of Work in the Uber Economy

Creating a Safety Net in a Multi-Employer World

  • Steven Hill

Executive Secrecy

If we want to check presidential power—and check it we must—then it is essential that we resist claims to executive secrecy.

  • William Howell
  • Mariah Zeisberg

In Same-Sex Marriage Case, a Contest over History

History really matters in Obergefell v. Hodges.

  • Nancy F. Cott

The Moynihan Report at Fifty

On the long reach of intellectual racism.

  • Stephen Steinberg

Justice and Warfare in Cyberspace

The Department of Defense's Cyber Strategy Memorandum

  • Lisa Lucile Owens

The Folly of Neoliberal Prison Reform

The demands of justice and human rights compel thoroughgoing change, whatever the cost-benefit analysis returns.

  • Marie Gottschalk

The New New Guidelines

Why do our ideas about nutrition change so quickly?

  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
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