Law

Unchecked and Unbalanced

Taking Issue with Jack Goldsmith

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Founding Fathers, Founding Villains

As soon as there was a Constitution, fights about its meaning began.

  • William Hogeland

Remembering Trouillot

He taught us all how to read carefully, argue passionately, and write responsibly.

  • Colin Dayan

The New Religious Intolerance

An interview with Martha Nussbaum on the growing anti-Muslim agitations in Europe and the United States.

  • David V. Johnson

Juárez Rebounds . . . Sort of

From 2008 until 2011, Juárez was among the world’s most violent cities.

  • Sarah Hill

Forty Years After Watergate

The Decades-Long Fight Against Political Money

  • Pamela S. Karlan

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War Is Betrayal

Persistent Myths of Combat

  • Chris Hedges

‘Obamacare’ Is Constitutional, But …

Pam Karlan on the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling

  • David V. Johnson
  • Pamela S. Karlan

What Would Augustine Do?

The President, Drones, and Just War Theory

  • David Luban

A Court of Her Own

An Interview with Pam Karlan

  • Pamela S. Karlan
  • David V. Johnson

Purifying Kashmir

Saudi Arabia exports Salafism to the war-torn region

  • Tariq Mir

When the Umpire Throws the Pitches

The Court is not simply deciding which cases to hear, but is also directing the parties to address issues the justices want to take up.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Much to Answer For

James Q. Wilson’s legacy.

  • Glenn C. Loury

After the Slaughter

Have recent events in Afghanistan brought the war to a critical turning point? For U.S. troops stationed there, little has changed.

  • Matt Gallagher

Plague of Locusts

Our Failure to Regulate Drone Warfare

  • Richard Falk

Blaming Islam

A Boston Review Book

  • John R. Bowen

In Vain Have We Sanctioned

Harsher measures against Iran won’t work.

  • Akbar Ganji

Beautiful Resistance

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Friends and Dictators

Cozying up to central Asia’s most brutal regimes.

  • Tara McKelvey

What’s a Right Without a Remedy?

The Supreme Court may be signaling potential wrongdoers that they can infringe rights with impunity.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

No Saudi Spring

The anatomy of a failed revolution.

  • Madawi Al-Rasheed

Elevating the Discourse

An Interview with Robert C. Post

  • Robert C. Post
  • Kip M. Hustace

Crime and Punishment

Public safety doesn’t require more inmates.

  • Bruce Western

No Parties, No Banners

The Spanish experiment with direct democracy.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
  • Ernesto Ganuza
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