Politics

Zionism and the Right to Culture

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

  • Omri Boehm

An Afterthought on Indyref

Overnight, the hopeful, broad-based, grassroots independence movement gave rise to the righteous wronged.

  • Stephen Phelan

Rethinking Privacy

A little surveillance can do us a lot of good.

  • William H. Simon

Conservatives are Driving Americans Away from Religion

Religiously-inflected politics of personal morality alienated more recently-born moderate and liberal Americans from the church.

Trench Democracy in Public Administration #3: An Interview with Jamie Verbrugge

Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places.

Lessons from Market Basket

On a remarkable summer of protest.

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The Contradiction of Nuclear Democracy

To be a nuclear-armed state is to invest the executive with dictatorial powers over immeasurable destructive capacity.

  • Elaine Scarry
  • Simon Waxman

God’s Country

The making of American exceptionalism.

  • Richard White

Fighting Inequality in the New Gilded Age

Restoring genuine democracy must go beyond campaign finance.

  • K. Sabeel Rahman

A Better Nation

Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.

  • Stephen Phelan

The Haifa Mob

On July 19 I joined a licensed march in Haifa against the Gaza war.

  • Noam Chayut

The American “Deportation Mill”

Immigrant families detained in Artesia, New Mexico, are suing the U.S. government

  • Lauren Carasik

Standardized Testing Can be Good

But only if we put students first.

  • Lelac Almagor

#Ferguson: Did Social Media Really Fan the Flames?

However vast the media apparatus may be, the disturbances have not spread.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Syria in Revolt

Understanding the unthinkable war.

  • Sadiq J. Al-Azm

“The Industry of Ideas”: Measuring the Impact of Think Tanks

Investigating money in politics is a little like studying dark matter.

  • Andrew Mayersohn

When Protesting Israel Becomes Hating Jews

History has shown time and again that it is not possible to dehumanize an enemy while treating their cousins, aunts, and uncles with respect. 

  • Jason Stanley

The Moral Siege

The militarization of Jewish supremacism in Israel.

  • Assaf Sharon

On Human Shields

If Hamas uses civilian shields, is the IDF responsible for their deaths?

  • Seth Lazar

Righting the GOP

On Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan

  • Mark Schmitt

Taking Just War Seriously in Gaza

Many more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza than Israelis. Is this, on its own, justified?

  • F. M. Kamm

Burning China’s Garbage

Protests against a new waste management system signals a turning point in Chinese environmentalism.

  • Sarah Hill

Why Haven’t We Talked to Putin?

There is no evidence that U.S. leaders have tried to engage Putin and his inner circle about the crisis in Ukraine.

  • Eugene Rumer

Taking the Government for Granted

Corruption of the system certainly occurs, much too often, but stands out precisely because it is not the norm.

  • Claude S. Fischer
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