Politics

On Stone Mountain

Bill Clinton, white supremacy, and the birth of the modern Democratic Party.

  • Christopher Petrella

Machinations of Wicked Men

Niall Ferguson’s authorized biography falsifies Henry Kissinger’s intellectual legacy.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

A Reading List for Radical Political Action

  • Derecka Purnell
  • Boston Review

Why Spain Won’t Quit the Eurozone

Weaker European economies chafe against an anti-democratic euro.

  • Mark Weisbrot

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the United States to confront its long-submerged id.

  • Simon Waxman

The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties

We need new privacy law for the digital age.

  • Neil M. Richards

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Survey Says . . .

Polling can be useful, even when imprecise

  • Claude S. Fischer

Beyond Freedom and Equality

The democratic value of dignity.

  • Nick Bromell

Pigs

Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.

  • Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey

Trump and Cruz Battle for Evangelical Hearts

Spiritual warfare on the campaign trail.

  • Laura Premack

How Refugees Can Save Europe

Europe must accept that post-nationalism, by nature, is porous at its borders.

  • Paul Linden-Retek

Turkey Descends into Authoritarianism

Fears of terrorism, and President Erdoğan’s rivalry with an exiled theologian, have become excuses for censorship and repression.

  • Umar Farooq

For Love of Country

Is emotion the key to the good society?

  • Shivani Radhakrishnan

The Futility of Liberal Backlash to Trump

He thrives on his opponents’ outrage.

  • Sam Rosen

What Future for South African Democracy?

Student protests and the deepening crisis of the post-apartheid order

  • Vito Laterza
  • Ayanda Manqoyi

The New Nature

It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?

  • Jedediah Britton-Purdy
with responses from
  • Jo Guldi
  • Jairus Grove
  • Robert Paarlberg
  • Andreas Malm
  • David Keith
  • Anna Tsing
  • Ugo Mattei
  • Vandana Shiva
  • Paul Waldau
  • Roy Scranton

Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?

A discussion of the fear and inertia baked into U.S. politics.

  • Sanford Levinson
  • Richard Kreitner

We’re Going to Cuba! (Or not.)

Travel to the island nation won’t be what you’re picturing.

  • Sarah Hill

As EU Technocrats Falter, the French Right Gains

The Front National is not in government, but it’s still making gains.

  • Arthur Goldhammer

In San Bernardino, a Crime—Not an Act of War

The massacre led immediately to national security fantasies.

  • Joseph Margulies

A Rock and a Hard Place

The neglect and abuse of Pakistan’s tribal areas.

  • Umar Farooq

The Online–Sex Predator Panic

Laws Against Online Luring Harm Children

  • Judith Levine

The Riptide of Technocracy

Is a centralized European Union compatible with democracy?

  • Jonathan White

A Servant Heart

How has neoliberalism become so closely linked with evangelical Christianity?

  • James G. Chappel
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