Law

Manifesto

An argument for democracy in Taiwan

  • The Editors of Taiwan
  • Theodore Huters

Reforming Immigration Policy

The rights and protections guaranteed in the protocols for smuggled migrants are below the minimum required by international law. 

  • Jacqueline Bhabha

American Sweatshops

Organizing workers in the global economy

  • Jennifer Gordon

On Belonging

What we owe people who stay.

  • Joseph H. Carens

The Power and the Glory

Myths of American exceptionalism.

  • Howard Zinn

Fear No Freedom

The Sharansky-Bush hypothesis—that spreading freedom will usher in an age of peace—has stymied the human-rights movement.

  • William F. Schulz

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Hizbullah’s New Face

In search of a Muslim democracy.

  • Helena Cobban

In the National Interest

A grand new strategy for American foreign policy.

  • Stephen M. Walt
with responses from
  • Richard Falk
  • Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
  • Ervand Abrahamian
  • Khalil Shikaki
  • Naomi Chazan
  • Robert Vickers Jr.
  • Mahmood Mamdani
  • John Tirman
  • Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay
  • Mary Kaldor
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter

Hungry for Air

Learning the language of torture.

  • Deborah Stone

The Blemish of Conquest

Moshe Dayan questioned American goals in Vietnam. What would he say about Iraq?

  • Martin van Creveld

Cold War Casualties

How our claim of victory distorts American foreign policy.

  • Neta C. Crawford

The Right Fight

Enlisted by the feds, can police find sleeper cells and protect civil rights, too?

  • Daniel Richman
with responses from
  • David A. Harris
  • Bob Barr
  • Edward Rubin
  • William J. Stuntz
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • David A. Sklansky
  • Elizabeth Glazer
  • Richard Thompson Ford
  • Corey Robin

Best Intentions

The story of Tanzania’s people’s park.

  • Christine J. Walley

What Went Wrong

Why the United States must resist the impulse to remake entire societies, particularly through military might.

  • Rajan Menon

Lost Opportunities

Without Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians would not have been as committed to a two-state solution as they are today.

  • Jeremy Pressman

Iraq’s Chaos

Why the insurgency won't go away.

  • Ahmed S. Hashim

Cruel and Unusual

The end of the Eighth Amendment.

  • Colin Dayan

Tragedy in Darfur

On understanding and ending the horror.

  • Alex de Waal

High Art in Low Times

Two new books on the cultural Cold War.

  • Catherine Gunther Kodat

Russia’s Quagmire

On ending the standoff in Chechnya.

  • Rajan Menon

Body of the Nation

Why women were mutliated in Gujarat.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

Resolving to Resist

Local governments are refusing to comply with the Patriot Act.

  • Elaine Scarry

The People v. Judicial Activism

Who has the last word on the Constitution?

  • Larry Kramer

The Wrong Lessons

The vanishing legacy of Operation Restore Hope.

  • Alex de Waal
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