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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.

Simon Torracinta

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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.

Christine Sypnowich

Outcomes shape opportunities.

Gina Schouten

There must be room for choice.

Zofia Stemplowska

Public opinion doesn't support equal outcomes.

Claude S. Fischer

The history of debates about educational outcomes holds important lessons.

Leah Gordon

Egalitarianism raises our expectations.

William M. Paris

Choice talk distracts from structural injustice.

Anne Phillips

The aim is a classless society, not equal outcomes.

Nicholas Vrousalis

It doesn't entail an embrace of the status quo.

Martin O'Neill

Opportunities are hard to measure.

Ravi Kanbur

Equal opportunity theory is a flexible tool.

John Roemer

We should follow the Nordic model.

Lane Kenworthy

Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.

Joshua Abramson Cohen

Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts—and it should be today.

Jo Guldi

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

Jacob S. Abolafia, Jonathan S. Gould

Menon responds to his critics.

Rajan Menon

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On stopping the fighting and building the peace.

Rajan Menon

For a stable pan-European security, the West can no longer engage with Russia.

Oxana Shevel

Military proliferation is unwise and unnecessary.

Neta C. Crawford

To prescribe a resolution, we need to better understand Putin’s motive for the war on Ukraine.

Kathryn Stoner

The West needs to start preparing for a stalemate.

Charles A. Kupchan

Could Ukraine be a buffer between Russia and NATO?

Jack Lewis Snyder

Military primacy, not peace, is Biden and the national security establishment’s main goal.

Andrew J. Bacevich

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