Politics

Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Sexual Liberation

Without sexual liberation, sexual oppression and sexual violence will continue.

  • Judith Levine

Same-Sex Marriage Yes, Adultery No?

Trends in American Opinion

  • Claude S. Fischer

Preserving the Self

The Political Economy of Attention

  • George Scialabba

The Americans Are Coming

Traveling to Cuba after revised White House policies.

  • Sarah Hill

Attaining Adulthood

The less affluent are increasingly leading “non-standard” lives.

  • Claude S. Fischer

The Rise of the Populist Right in Norway

Across Europe, the hold of traditional centrist parties—whether social democratic, liberal, or conservative—seems to be slipping away.

  • Sindre Bangstad

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Hashpipe of the Vanities

Overestimating the counterculture of the 1960s.

  • Hal Stucker

Left Out

The instability of the white working class.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Evangelizing Boston

"Church planting" uses public schools to reduce rent and retake secular Boston.

  • Katherine Stewart

Elder Consent: The New Sex Panic?

One report on purported elder abuse describes victims as dependent captives “in highly sexualized environments.”

  • Judith Levine

The Seduction of Normalcy

On Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts.

  • Diana Arterian

Curbing the New Corporate Power

Consumer prices are not the only concern raised by dominant companies.

  • K. Sabeel Rahman
with responses from
  • Dean Baker
  • Juliet B. Schor
  • Robin Chase
  • Adam Thierer
  • David Bollier
  • Arun Sundararajan
  • Mike Konczal
  • Sofia Ranchordás
  • Richard White

Police Body Cameras Can’t Replace Camera Phones

Body cameras and camera phones are constrained by different policies and laws.

  • Zachary Fine

Sally Mann’s Romantic Ideal

“Dear Sir, I don’t like the way you crossed me out.”

  • Judith Levine

Styles for Him—and Her

Unisex Fashion Fought the Gender Binary, and the Binary Won

  • Philip N. Cohen

Taking Back the States … Again

Why don’t Democratic efforts in state and local politics stick?

  • Andrew Mayersohn

How the Truth About Palestine Won Netanyahu the Israeli Election

He now has the power to establish, if he wishes, a coalition consisting exclusively of extreme right and religious parties.

  • Omri Boehm

The Rise of the Anti-Muslim Fringe

— and how it became mainstream.

  • Aziz Z. Huq

Dead Man Talking

Brazil's Spiritists Redefine Religion

  • Laura Premack

Censor This

Political correctness tends to close off important, if uncomfortable, topics.

  • Claude S. Fischer

The Indiana Backlash

Ever since the Indiana legislature passed its version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, lawmakers there have been on the defensive.

  • Simon Waxman

A Tale of Two Immigration Judgements

Federal courts have been busy scrutinizing the government’s handling of immigration.

  • Louis Fisher

Cuba’s Long Memory

What to expect from the renewed relations.

  • Alan West-Duran

Protesting Too Much

The trouble with Black Power revisionism.

  • Randall L. Kennedy
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