Politics

Ayatollah Khamenei and the Destruction of Israel

Including translations of Khamenei’s speeches from 1990 to the present.

  • Akbar Ganji

Rodolfo Walsh and the Struggle for Argentina

Before In Cold Blood, there was Operation Massacre.

  • Stephen Phelan

A Guide to the Affordable Care Act

Who are you in the eyes of the ACA?

  • Deborah Stone

A Place for Muslim Women

The kinds of sacred spaces we worked for are not just possible; they exist. On the other side of the planet. Under occupation.

  • Haroon Moghul

The Sound of Terror

The phenomenology of a drone strike.

  • Nasser Hussain

Jordan’s Second-Class Citizens

Jordanian mothers with non-Jordanian husbands cannot pass along citizenship to their children. The results are devastating, but a growing campaign is committed to change.

  • Elizabeth Whitman

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A Constitution for All Time

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Defrosting the Cold War with Iran

What will it take to revive U.S.-Iran relations?

  • Akbar Ganji

Raúl’s Cuba

Raúl is not the same as his brother, but the democratic movement that Cuba needs still is not coming any time soon.

  • Samuel Farber

Syria’s Red Line

The chemical weapons ban should have been made universal years ago.

  • Jeanne Guillemin

Big, Glitzy Marches Are Not Movements

In 1963 and today, the real work happens elsewhere.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Marching (Again) for Jobs and Wages

Today’s mix of economic problems calls for demands that echo those of the 1963 marchers.

  • Thomas A. Kochan

Extremely Local

The Unique American Obsession with Small-Scale Government

  • Claude S. Fischer

Can Science Deliver the Benefits of Religion?

New research shows that a scientific worldview helps people cope with feelings of powerlessness and the anxieties of mortality.

  • Tania Lombrozo

Empire’s Wasteland

The cause of Camus’s native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

  • Vivian Gornick

Democracy and Philanthropy

Rob Reich on the Role of Foundations in Democratic Societies

  • Rob Reich

Slavery, Emancipation, and the Relationship of Freedom and Equality

Two Objections to Slavery

  • Elizabeth Anderson

Where Is Inequality Headed?

What History and Economics Tell Us About Inequality's Future

  • Anthony Atkinson

Slavery, Emancipation, and Equality

Wesson Lecture Discussion

  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • Joshua Cohen
  • David Hollinger

Arresting Robert Mugabe

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell.

  • Tinashe Mushakavanhu

The Book

When two scientists discover a book looted by the Nazis, they seek out the rightful heir and in the process explore the reparations process of early postwar days.

  • Karin Andert
  • Niko Kohls

Direct Expression

An interview with the dissident poet and essayist Kirill Medvedev about a new Russian left.

  • Emma Goldhammer

Twelve Absent Men

Rebuilding the American Jury

  • Albert W. Dzur

The Syria Dilemma

This book focuses on the ethical and political dilemmas at the heart of the debate about Syria and the possibility of humanitarian intervention in today’s world.

  • Danny Postel
  • Nader Hashemi
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