Politics

Beautiful Resistance

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

Friends and Dictators

Cozying up to central Asia’s most brutal regimes.

No Saudi Spring

The anatomy of a failed revolution.

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on student loan debt, academia, and the value of education.

What We Owe to Each Other

David Graeber on why we don’t put babies’ lives ahead of Citibank’s shareholders and whether we should renew the tradition of debt jubilees.

Can Apple Shape Up?

Examining the global supply chains and labor practices of the high-tech industry.

The Past is not Past

Why We Still Need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

Blunt Instrument

Sanctions don’t promote democratic change.

The Holy Game

Big spectacle games are made for professions of faith, and holy language is exactly the right fit.

The Soft Side of Regime Change

On Trita Parsi’s A Single Roll of the Dice.

A Better Deal

Obama’s State of the Union Announces Populist Re-election Bid

Digital Culture Wars

Contemporary American politics privileges policing and punishment, while marginalizing the arts and the commons.

An Acquired Taste

Swinton gives her all to the martyred victim in We Need to Talk about Kevin.

Outing Iran

Publishing news of discrimination against homosexuals in Iran.

Poetry Fights Back

Modern Pashtun poetry is a poetry of resistance.

A World on Fire

Life and death in a New Orleans squat.

Citizen Philosophers

Teaching philosophy in Brazil is a political project.

Not So Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Steven Pinker’s Good News

State of the Nation: The Brown Majority

Most of the demographic change in America today comes not from waves of new immigration, but from the echoes of past migration.

Touching Their Ancestors’ Hands

An Interview with Anne Makepeace.

A Shared Fate

Europeans might accept supranational democracy in theory, but cannot see it as part of their lives.

The Plague

Farmers and settlers clash in South Hebron.

Occupy the Future

A series of essays exploring key issues raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Occupation as Fairness

What John Rawls Would Make of the Occupy Movement

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