Law

Can Apple Shape Up?

Examining the global supply chains and labor practices of the high-tech industry.

  • Dara O’Rourke
  • David V. Johnson

The Past is not Past

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

  • Jonathan Brater

Too Much Credit

Response to Flynt and Hillary Leverett.

  • Ali Ansari

Agenda-Driven Reviews

A response to Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett.

  • Trita Parsi

The Soft Side of Regime Change

On Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice.

  • Flynt Leverett
  • Hillary Mann Leverett

Messin’ with Texas

The Legal Wrangle over Redistricting

  • Samuel Issacharoff

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Digital Culture Wars

Contemporary American politics privileges policing and punishment, while marginalizing the arts and the commons.

  • Frank Pasquale

Outing Iran

Publishing news of discrimination against homosexuals in Iran.

  • David William Turner

Poetry Fights Back

Modern Pashtun poetry is a poetry of resistance.

  • Shaheen Buneri

Big Brother Buys a GPS

On New Challenges to the Fourth Amendment.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

State of the Nation: The Brown Majority

Most of the demographic change in America today comes not from waves of new immigration, but from the echoes of past migration.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Touching Their Ancestors’ Hands

An Interview with Anne Makepeace.

  • Anne Makepeace
  • Jana Pickart

A Shared Fate

Europeans might accept supranational democracy in theory, but cannot see it as part of their lives.

  • Jan-Werner Müller

The Plague

Farmers and settlers clash in South Hebron.

  • David Shulman

Containing Outrage

How police power tames the Occupy movement.

  • Alasdair Roberts

Reclaiming the Republic

In his latest book, Lawrence Lessig argues that Congress has become so corrupted by moneyed interests and has so undermined the public trust that our very republic is at risk.

  • Lawrence Lessig
  • David V. Johnson

We Are All Khaled Said

An Interview with the Administrators of the Facebook Page that Fueled the Egyptian Revolution

  • Anver M. Emon
  • Ellen Lust
  • Audrey Macklin

The Cost of Death

Ineffective trial lawyers, inconclusive evidence, inconsistent testimony, and impenetrable procedural thickets are not unique to capital cases.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Politics by Other Means

The Egyptian uprising has been rightly celebrated as a momentous event.

  • Mona El-Ghobashy

What State? Whose Authority?

Palestinians are ambivalent about statehood bid.

  • Mya Guarnieri

Unfair Advantages

Selling Asymmetric War at the Unmanned Vehicle Systems Trade Show

  • Joseph Nevins

Regime Change Doesn’t Work

History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.

  • Alexander B. Downes
with responses from
  • Greg Grandin
  • Neta C. Crawford
  • James D. Fearon
  • Mary Kaldor
  • John Tirman
  • Tod Lindberg
  • Joanne Landy

American Autumn

Protest Groups Bring the Arab Spring to the United States

  • Nathan Schneider

A Little Help

Rahman, a native of Pakistan, was wrongfully accused of aiding would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. 

  • David William Turner
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