Politics

Kashmir’s High Price for Demanding Independence

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.

  • Tariq Mir

On Ice

In U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities, the law’s reach is tenuous.

  • Colin Dayan

Between Experts and Citizens

Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.

  • Jo Guldi

Bad News for Brazilian Democracy

Dilma Rousseff's impeachment circumvented the democratic process.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

Will Peace Bring Justice to Colombia?

Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?

  • Lauren Carasik

Confronting Religious Revivalism

Liberal democracy requires that we banish religion from politics.

  • Assaf Sharon
  • Avishai Margalit
with responses from
  • Michael Walzer
  • Avishai Margalit & Assaf Sharon

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Black Nationalism and Liberation

Integration doesn’t guarantee equality or freedom.

  • Garrett Felber

Great Exploitations

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.

  • Erik Loomis

“Go home!”: Being Foreign in Post-Brexit Britain

For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.

  • Andrea Mammone

NATO Has Problems, But Trump Won’t Fix Them

Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.

  • Simon Waxman

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Blood in Honduras, Silence in the United States

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

  • Lauren Carasik

The Ideology of the Olympics

The Olympics have long tried to obscure the political nature of sport.

  • Robert L. Kehoe III

White Leghorns

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

  • Colin Dayan

Common Property

How social insurance became confused with socialism.

  • Elizabeth Anderson

Do Government Incentives Make Us Bad Citizens?

Government incentives may make us less moral, not more.

  • John McMahon

The Forgotten State

Local government can’t fix our problems. Only big government can.

  • Mike Konczal

The Logic of Misogyny

Moralistic or not, misogyny is not about hating women. It is about controlling them.

  • Kate Manne
with responses from
  • Imani Perry
  • Susan J. Brison
  • Amber A'Lee Frost
  • Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Doug Henwood
  • Tali Mendelberg
  • Vivian Gornick

Waiting at Guantánamo

After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.

  • Henry Ace Knight

Brexit Threatens World Peace and Security

The vote will have consequences far beyond the UK's borders. 

  • Alex de Waal

Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?

The country needs a political rebirth.

  • Mahmood Mamdani

No Money and No Plan for Refugees

The UN’s World Humanitiarian Summit came up empty-handed.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Orlando: What’s God Got to Do with It?

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

  • Michael Bronski

That Lonesome Whistle

Edward Snowden’s actions can be justified, but not as civil disobedience.

  • Candice Delmas
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