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Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
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Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
The history of debates about educational outcomes holds important lessons.
Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.
Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.
The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.
For a stable pan-European security, the West can no longer engage with Russia.
To prescribe a resolution, we need to better understand Putin’s motive for the war on Ukraine.
Military primacy, not peace, is Biden and the national security establishment’s main goal.
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