Politics

Remembering Trouillot

He taught us all how to read carefully, argue passionately, and write responsibly.

  • Colin Dayan

Stockton Goes Bust

A Municipal Bankruptcy, in Pictures

  • Susie Cagle

The New Religious Intolerance

An interview with Martha Nussbaum on the growing anti-Muslim agitations in Europe and the United States.

  • David V. Johnson

Under the Influence

Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.

  • Martin Gilens
with responses from
  • Larry M. Bartels
  • Matthew Yglesias
  • Kay Lehman Schlozman
  • Mark Schmitt
  • Nancy L. Rosenblum
  • John Ferejohn
  • Barbara Sinclair
  • Russ Feingold
  • Archon Fung
  • Michael Gecan

Under the Influence

Democracy requires that all citizens—rich and poor alike—have influence over the policies their government adopts.

  • Martin Gilens

Know Where You Stand

How Informing the Voters Helps the Democrats

  • Anthony Fowler
  • Michele Margolis

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Forty Years After Watergate

The Decades-Long Fight Against Political Money

  • Pamela S. Karlan

How Markets Crowd Out Morals

There are some things money can’t buy—and many things money shouldn’t buy.

  • Michael J. Sandel
with responses from
  • Richard Sennett
  • Matt Welch
  • Anita L. Allen
  • Debra Satz
  • Herbert Gintis
  • Lew Daly
  • Samuel Bowles
  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • John Tomasi

A New Hamiltonianism

An Interview with Michael Lind

  • Michael Lind
  • John Stoehr

The Salafi Question

Egypt’s Constitutional Moment

  • Amitai Etzioni

What Would Augustine Do?

The President, Drones, and Just War Theory

  • David Luban

Practice Makes Citizens

An Interview with Meira Levinson

  • Meira Levinson
  • Kip M. Hustace

Purifying Kashmir

Saudi Arabia exports Salafism to the war-torn region

  • Tariq Mir

Natural Woman

Elisabether Badinter blames “naturalism” for all-consuming motherhood, but she leaves the real culprits off the hook.

  • Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow

Islam in America

Video of an Ideas Matter event held at MIT on May 15, 2012

  • John R. Bowen
  • Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Christopher Lydon

Capitalism and the Urban Struggle

An Interview with David Harvey

  • David Harvey
  • David V. Johnson

Never So Free

Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation portrays an Iranian divorce under sharia law with sensitivity and pathos.

  • Alan A. Stone

The American Left, Liberalism, and Equality

An interview with historian Eli Zaretsky.

  • Eli Zaretsky
  • Sean Fabery

The Port Huron Statement at 50

Reassessing the document that sparked an era of activism.

  • Tom Hayden
with responses from
  • Kim Phillips-Fein
  • Bill Ayers
  • Angus Johnston
  • Eric Mann
  • Kirkpatrick Sale
  • Danielle Allen
  • Jennifer Hochschild
  • Trevor Stutz
  • Bernardine Dohrn

My Dinner with Andrew Breitbart

Breaking bread with the right’s bad boys.

  • Bill Ayers

The Future of Black Politics

With black civil society in retreat, how can we rebuild black politics?

  • Michael C. Dawson
with responses from
  • William Julius Wilson
  • Andra Gillespie
  • Tommie Shelby
  • Rev. Patrick H. O’Connor
  • Jennifer L. Hochschild
  • Lani Guinier & Gerald Torres
  • Dorian T. Warren
  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Contraception and Counterrevolution

An Interview with Corey Robin

  • Corey Robin
  • David V. Johnson

The Cure

Can doctors change how they think?

  • Suzanne Gordon

Blaming Islam

A Boston Review Book

  • John R. Bowen
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