Law

Immigrants and the Right to Stay

A Boston Review Book

  • Joseph H. Carens

Originalism Spells the Death of the U.S. Constitution

The median lifespan of a national constitution is roughly the life expectancy of a Great Dane. Why has the U.S. Constitution endured? In part because judges have escaped the stranglehold of originalism.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

The War for Drugs

How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city.

  • Sarah Hill

Dreaming of a Free Iran

Akbar Ganji accepts the Friedman Prize.

  • Akbar Ganji
  • Hamid Dabashi

A New Start

Prospects for Obama's "Global Zero"

  • Tara McKelvey

Ending the Endless War

Will Colombia’s democracy survive the violence?

  • Luis Fernando Medina

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Man of Principle

The Passions of Arthur Koestler.

  • Roger Boylan

The Case of Carter

When rehabilitation fails

  • Daphna Nachminovitch

What Does That Server Really Serve?

How programs like Google Docs rob users of their freedom.

  • Richard M. Stallman

The Obligation to Prosecute

Why we must prosecute the Bush administration officials who sanctioned torture.

  • Elaine Scarry

Right By Others

On the theory and practice of justice.

  • Vivian Gornick

Remembering Haiti

In the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake, an anthropologist reflects on his fieldwork in Haiti fifty years earlier.

  • Sidney W. Mintz

Dead Dogs

Breed bans, euthanasia, and preemptive justice

  • Colin Dayan

Something from Nothing

U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.

  • Nir Rosen
with responses from
  • Helena Cobban
  • Syed Saleem Shahzad
  • J. Alexander Thier
  • Andrew Exum
  • Aziz Hakimi
  • Andrew J. Bacevich
  • Richard W. Miller
  • Rajan Menon

The Big Bank Theory

How government helps financial giants get richer

  • Dean Baker

Counterinsurgency’s Comeback

Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?

  • Nasser Hussain

Nothing To Fear

Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe.

  • John R. Bowen

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

  • Ryan Thoreson

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq.

  • Nir Rosen

A Death in Texas

Where profits, poverty, and immigration converge.

  • Tom Barry

God, the Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?

  • Tara McKelvey

The Trial of Ezra Nawi

A peace activist faces judgment in Israel.

  • David Shulman

Do the Right Thing

An anti-genocide policy that works.

  • Sarah Sewall

Development in Dangerous Places

If richer states provide security, the poorest can finally grow.

  • Paul Collier
with responses from
  • Stephen D. Krasner
  • William Easterly
  • Larry Diamond
  • Edward Miguel
  • Mike McGovern
  • Nancy Birdsall
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