Law

Fault Lines

Inside Rumsfeld’s Pentagon.

  • Andrew J. Bacevich

The Gunslinger

John Bolton will turn U.S. foreign policy back to the unilateralism of Bush’s first term, when the war on terror meant never having to say you’re sorry.

  • Stephen John Stedman

The Mirror

Imagining justice in Palestine.

  • Elias Khoury

Is It Africa’s Turn?

Progress in the world’s poorest region.

  • Edward Miguel
with responses from
  • Robert H. Bates
  • Ken Banks
  • Olu Ajakaiye
  • Rosamond Naylor
  • Jeremy M. Weisntein
  • Smita Singh
  • Paul Collier
  • Rachel Glennerster

Breakout

Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.

  • Helena Cobban

The Unending War

On Argentina’s quest for justice.

  • Sam Ferguson

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The Bitter End

Jonah Goldberg’s liberal fascism.

  • Kevin Mattson

All That Is Given

Hannah Arendt on being Jewish.

  • Vivian Gornick

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War spreads.

  • Nir Rosen

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

  • Colin Dayan

Within Reach of the State

Though both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions.

  • Owen Fiss

Massive crimes are never simply domestic

They cross borders and affect other states.

  • Luis Moreno-Ocampo

The Slave Trade on Trial

Lessons of a great human rights–law success.

  • Jenny S. Martinez

No Going Back

Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis.

  • Nir Rosen

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Race and the transformation of criminal justice

  • Glenn C. Loury

Back to the Future

On Israel’s existential crisis.

  • Robert Blecher
  • Jeremy Pressman

In the Sweep of History

Where realists and progressives can meet.

  • Anatol Lieven

The View from Tehran

Changing Iran from within.

  • Akbar Ganji

Nuclear Freeze

The Middle East and global arms control.

  • Hans Blix

Carrots and Sticks

Remarks from the U.S. Under Secretary of State.

  • R. Nicholas Burns

A Third Way

Normalizing relations will help Iran and the United States.

  • Michael McFaul
  • Abbas Milani

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American Liberalism

  • Lew Daly

Days of Lies and Roses

Selling out Afghanistan

  • Sarah Chayes

A Measure of Splendor

The poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali. 

  • Victoria Chang
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