Politics

Voter Discrimination Starts Well Before Election Day

Voter ID laws burden minorities, but discrimination starts well before they reach the voting booth.

  • Ariel White

Hillary Clinton and the Unqualified Right to Abortion

She is the first major politician to support abortion without qualification. And she has never polled better with millennials.

  • Judith Levine

How Not to Argue for Basic Income

When proponents deploy the logic of market competition, they undermine democracy and social equality.

  • Brishen Rogers

Real Citizens

Trump shows us that populism is not the same as legitimate protest—or democracy.

  • Jan-Werner Müller

WATCH: Junot Díaz on Trump’s Shamelessness

Junot Díaz dissects Donald Trump's misogynist rhetoric and the larger societal forces that make it possible.

Putin’s More Perfect Union

The idea that Putin is driven by the philosophy of Eurasianism obscures the pragmatism of Russia’s foreign policy.

  • Jordan Michael Smith

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The New World Order

The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.

  • Matthew Karp

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

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
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