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United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.

  • Claudio Lomnitz
  • Rafael Sánchez

Cyber-Scare

The exaggerated fears over digital warfare.

  • Evgeny Morozov

The Best Hope–Still?

Despite large obstacles, Obama is right to push the two-state solution.

  • Jeremy Pressman

Dispatch from the Hebron Hills

For the last seven weekends in a row, violent settlers from neighboring Bat Ayin have attacked the Palestinian farmers here.

  • David Shulman

Beating Bad Karma

Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change.

  • Abbas Milani

Peace Out

The decline of Israel’s progressive movement.

  • Helena Cobban

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The Case for Amnesty

Time erodes the state’s right to deport.

  • Joseph H. Carens
with responses from
  • Mae M. Ngai
  • Roberto Suro
  • Marc R. Rosenblum
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Eamonn Callan
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Linda Bosniak
  • Mary Lyndon Shanley
  • Rainer Bauböck
  • Gerald L. Neuman
  • Douglas S. Massey
  • Gara LaMarche
  • Carol M. Swain
  • Arash Abizadeh
  • Peter H. Schuck
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

A Response to David Mikhail’s Sleepwalker

We must focus on the laws that continue to put so many noncitizens— including legal residents —into detention and deportation proceedings.

  • Mark Dow

Sleepwalker

Forgetting Shakir Baloch

  • David Mikhail

Private Arrangements

“Recognizing sharia” in England

  • John R. Bowen

State of Emergency

A personal history of Pakistan on the brink.

  • Moni Mohsin

Consensus History

In response to Sanford Levinson’s critique of Constitutional Conventions.

  • William Hogeland

Closing Guantánamo

We need to find a way to address serious and legitimate security concerns without the overkill of a general system of preventive detention for suspected terrorists. 

  • David Cole
with responses from
  • Joanne Mariner
  • Robert Chesney
  • Eric Posner

History Matters, But So Does Politics

A response to William Hogeland’s “Constitutional Conventions.”

  • Sanford Levinson

A Tribe Apart

Afghan elites face a corrosive past.

  • Barnett R. Rubin

Common Cause

Real help for Iranian democrats.

  • Abbas Milani

Remembering Randall Forsberg

The originator of the idea of a “nuclear freeze.”

  • Joshua Cohen

The Mourner’s Hope

Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk, on grief and the foundations of justice.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Presidential Crimes

The crimes of the Bush administration must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.

  • Elaine Scarry

History Matters

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians

  • Joseph Levine

Guarded Hope

Lessons from the history of the prison boom.

  • Robert Perkinson

Reentry

Reversing mass imprisonment.

  • Bruce Western

What We Owe to Incarcerated Fathers

More than 1.5 million children currently have a parent in prison; for 94 percent of these children, that parent is the father.

  • Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
  • Mary Lyndon Shanley
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