Law

Your Body, Their Property

Who owns human tissues?

  • Osagie K. Obasogie

A Moveable Court

In the marriage and voting rights cases, the world outside powerfully affected the court.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

When Kids Are Sex Offenders

  • Sally Mairs

You Won’t See This on TV

The truth about America’s broken criminal justice system is significantly more interesting than scriptwriters’ fiction.

  • Seth Abramson

Raúl’s Cuba

Raúl is not the same as his brother, but the democratic movement that Cuba needs still is not coming any time soon.

  • Samuel Farber

Syria’s Red Line

The chemical weapons ban should have been made universal years ago.

  • Jeanne Guillemin

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Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now

When state order collapses, every confessional or ethnic group asks one question: Who will protect us now?

  • Michael Ignatieff

Extremely Local

The Unique American Obsession with Small-Scale Government

  • Claude S. Fischer

They Know Where You Are (But They Shouldn’t)

Did you know that when you buy a mobile phone, you waive any right to privacy in your movements?

  • Neil M. Richards

Slavery, Emancipation, and the Relationship of Freedom and Equality

Two Objections to Slavery

  • Elizabeth Anderson

Slavery, Emancipation, and Equality

Wesson Lecture Discussion

  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • Joshua Cohen
  • David Hollinger

Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell.

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Oversight Lite

If we already know the government violated the law, the fact that its actions were subject to oversight does not excuse the violation.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

High in Uruguay

The South American Country May Soon Be the First in the World to Officially Cultivate and Distribute Marijuana

  • Michelle García

The Book

When two scientists discover a book looted by the Nazis, they seek out the rightful heir and in the process explore the reparations process of early postwar days.

  • Karin Andert
  • Niko Kohls

Direct Expression

An interview with the dissident poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev about a new Russian left.

  • Emma Goldhammer

Twelve Absent Men

Rebuilding the American Jury

  • Albert W. Dzur

The Syria Dilemma

This book focuses on the ethical and political dilemmas at the heart of the debate about Syria and the possibility of humanitarian intervention in today’s world.

  • Danny Postel
  • Nader Hashemi

The Cost of Our Drone War in Pakistan

An interview with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed.

  • Wajahat Ali

Iran’s Olive Branch

What Rouhani’s presidential victory means for Iran-U.S. relations.

  • Akbar Ganji

Responsibility within Frameworks

The appropriateness of blame depends on a person’s attitudes toward others.

  • T. M. Scanlon

Dangerous Alternatives to Blame

We need to be cautious. Alternatives to blame may be even worse.

  • Mike Konczal

Blame Is Crucial for Morality

A commitment to morality requires blame.

  • George Sher

Blame and Punishment in California

We don’t need to change attitudes about blame in order to scale back mass incarceration.

  • Adriaan Lanni
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