Law

Straight Shooter

Coming home after Navy Seal duty.

  • Matt Gallagher

Sometimes an Amendment Is Just an Amendment

Anti-immigrant activists argue that the citizenship clause does not mean what it says. They are wrong.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

End of the Road

News of Osama bin Laden’s killing by U.S. special forces has sunk in. News of al Qaeda’s demise has not.

  • Fawaz A. Gerges

Advertising Away Our Privacy

By routinely giving away a huge amount of personal data, everyday Internet users might already have become law enforcement’s greatest ally.

  • Evgeny Morozov

Extreme Injury

Once eight countries have nuclear weapons, people everywhere on earth potentially ‘have’ them.

  • Elaine Scarry

Freedom Is a Way of Life

The Arab Summer in Tunisia

  • Josh Martin

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Accounting Failure

What Sarbanes-Oxley Teaches Us About Dodd-Frank

  • Francine McKenna

Border Wars

A Boston Review Book

  • Tom Barry

Underground In Beirut

A Syrian activist continues the fight from Lebanon.

  • Josh Wood

Who Represents the Poor?

The limits of the NGO movement in global development.

  • Pranab Bardhan

China’s Other Revolution

Though there has been no “Chinese Spring,” it would be hard to describe what has transpired in China over the past twenty years as anything but a revolution.

  • Edward S. Steinfeld
with responses from
  • Andrew G. Walder
  • Helen H. Wang
  • Baogang He
  • Ying Ma
  • Guobin Yang

Me, Inc.

Even if the Supreme Court decided that corporations are in every way like persons, there might be limits on the corporate role in politics.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Bin Laden: The Movie

The director of The Hurt Locker takes on the 9/11 mastermind

  • Alan A. Stone

Republicans’ 2012 Electoral Problem

Hispanics are developing stronger attachments to the Democrats.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

A Beautiful Place

I was fifteen when we left Palestine in the summer of 2000, just a few months before the al Aqsa Intifada.

  • Ahmed Moor

Europeans Against Multiculturalism

Political Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win Votes

  • John R. Bowen

A Too-Modest Proposal

A Palestinian peacemaker gives up on politics.

  • Avner Inbar
  • Assaf Sharon

The Morning After Marriage

Should the gay community really be saying “I do”?

  • Jason Anthony

Civil Rights Rollback

The Significance of Walmart v. Dukes

  • David Freeman Engstrom

Putting Solutions on Trial

Impact Evaluation and the Millennium Villages Experiment in Africa

  • Michael A. Clemens

Strongly Worded Dissents

A Conversation

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Glenn C. Loury

Another Year, Another Nakba

Protests and Violence On the Lebanon-Israel Border

  • James Reddick

A Predicament Of His Own Making

Rather than dismantling Bush’s counterterrorism apparatus, Obama has in crucial respects perpetuated it.

  • Owen Fiss

It Takes Two

In contrast to Loving v. Virginia, on the same-sex marriage issue the Court may have to make a decision before a national consensus emerges.

  • Pamela S. Karlan
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