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Gender & Sexuality, Law & Justice

Beyond Choice

Liberalism cannot simply be extended to the uterus. Reproductive justice requires a vision of the social body.

Abby Minor

Global Justice, Science & Nature

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

The U.S. Department of Defense is ramping up the militarization of Guam. If we hope to withstand the forces of predatory global capitalism, we need to begin articulating alternatives.

Julian Aguon

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Housing Is a Social Good

The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, H. Jacob Carlson

Science & Nature

End Capitalism

If many marine mammals are on the verge of extinction, it is not for lack of environmental activism, but because we are entangled in a global financial system that it does not seem possible to transform.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Arts in Society

When the State Fears a Poet

Celebrated Indian poet and activist Varavara Rao is in mortal danger of succumbing to COVID-19 if he is not released from prison.

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla

Global Justice

No Democracy Without Archives

The dramatic history of Guatemala’s National Police archive illustrates the crucial role of state archives in protecting democracy.

Kirsten Weld

Class & Inequality

The War Against the Poor Knows No Borders

The Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran and cuts to SNAP benefits are two sides of the same war that the rich are waging against the global poor.

Liz Theoharis

Class & Inequality, Race

American Bottom

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains. “Bring us back some help,” residents say, living through an environmental horror that evokes centuries of official disinterest in black suffering, as well as a future in which the poor are left to suffer in areas made uninhabitable by climate change.

Walter Johnson

Law & Justice

U.S. Judges Admit Enhanced Interrogation Is Torture

They also acknowledged, for the first time, that the grounds for torturing Abu Zubaydah—who was detained in the wake of September 11 and is still languishing in Guantánamo—were mistaken.

Joseph Margulies

War & Security

Holding Ourselves Responsible

In 2001, three frameworks for handling international crises emerged. Two have failed, but the third—the Caribbean movement for reparations—may still have something to tell us.

Adom Getachew

Global Justice

Mass Starvation Is a Crime—It's Time We Treated It That Way

The famine in Yemen is not simply “man-made.” Particular men are responsible, and they should be brought to justice.

Alex de Waal

War & Security

The Path Back From Hell

U.S. foreign policy disasters fueled our current political crisis. But those who want a new approach must do more than point out past blunders.

Rajan Menon

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