Politics

Wronged Without Recourse

Supreme Court Precedent Sets Back Worker Rights

  • Jessica Garrick
  • Andrew Schrank

Seriously Funny

On Howard Jacobson, the Jewish Jane Austen.

  • Roger Boylan

Extreme Injury

Once eight countries have nuclear weapons, people everywhere on earth potentially ‘have’ them.

  • Elaine Scarry

Freedom Is a Way of Life

The Arab Summer in Tunisia

  • Josh Martin

Accounting Failure

What Sarbanes-Oxley Teaches Us About Dodd-Frank

  • Francine McKenna

Border Wars

A Boston Review Book

  • Tom Barry

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Who Represents the Poor?

The limits of the NGO movement in global development.

  • Pranab Bardhan

When That Becomes This

Comparison in politics and poetry.

  • David Micah Greenberg

Republicans’ 2012 Electoral Problem

Hispanics are developing stronger attachments to the Democrats.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

A Beautiful Place

I was fifteen when we left Palestine in the summer of 2000, just a few months before the al Aqsa Intifada.

  • Ahmed Moor

Europeans Against Multiculturalism

Political Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win Votes

  • John R. Bowen

All About Obama

Five books consider the Obama presidency.

  • Mark Schmitt

On the March

Hungary’s ascendant right wing.

  • Paul Hockenos

A Too-Modest Proposal

A Palestinian peacemaker gives up on politics.

  • Avner Inbar
  • Assaf Sharon

The Morning After Marriage

Should the gay community really be saying “I do”?

  • Jason Anthony

Civil Rights Rollback

The Significance of Walmart v. Dukes

  • David Freeman Engstrom

Strongly Worded Dissents

A Conversation

  • Joshua Cohen
  • Glenn C. Loury

Winning the Future

Should political scientists care more about politics?

  • Archon Fung

A Predicament Of His Own Making

Rather than dismantling Bush’s counterterrorism apparatus, Obama has in crucial respects perpetuated it.

  • Owen Fiss

Fixing Congress

In politics as in life, you get what you pay for. In politics today, taxpayers are hiring mediocre talent, candidates who think their job is to duck the big policy issues in order to get elected and reelected.

  • U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper
with responses from
  • Kenneth A. Shepsle
  • Norman J. Ornstein
  • John Samples
  • Kathryn Pearson
  • John G. Geer
  • David W. Brady
  • Nick Nyhart
  • U.S. Rep. David E. Price
  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • Andrew Gelman
  • Dana Houle

It Takes Two

In contrast to Loving v. Virginia, on the same-sex marriage issue the Court may have to make a decision before a national consensus emerges.

  • Pamela S. Karlan

Run For Office

Voting is important, but American democracy depends on another form of civic participation: running for office.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Qaddafi’s Dream

The man who imagines himself king of kings.

  • Robert P. Baird

Government’s Place In the Market

A Q&A With Eliot Spitzer

  • Eliot Spitzer
  • David V. Johnson
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