Politics

Nothing To Fear

Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe.

  • John R. Bowen

All Bark, No Bite

The Decline of Germany’s Social Democrats

  • Clay Risen

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law

  • Ryan Thoreson

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul.

  • Vivian Gornick

How Knowledge are Americans About the Supreme Court?

State of the Nation

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

An Ugly Peace

What changed in Iraq.

  • Nir Rosen

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A Death in Texas

Where profits, poverty, and immigration converge.

  • Tom Barry

God, the Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?

  • Tara McKelvey

The Trial of Ezra Nawi

A peace activist faces judgment in Israel.

  • David Shulman

Stories and Stats

The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers.

  • Andrew Gelman
  • John Sides
with responses from
  • Rick Perlstein
  • Michael C. Dawson
  • Richard Johnston & Emily Thorson
  • Mark Schmitt

View from the Mountaintop

Coal may not remain the cheapest source of electric power for much longer.

  • Richard Heinberg

Do the Right Thing

An anti-genocide policy that works.

  • Sarah Sewall

State of the Nation: How to Vote

— and what for.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

The Memory That Will Not Die

Exhuming the Spanish Civil War

  • Julius Purcell

Cyber-Scare

The exaggerated fears over digital warfare.

  • Evgeny Morozov

The Best Hope–Still?

Despite large obstacles, Obama is right to push the two-state solution.

  • Jeremy Pressman

Dispatch from the Hebron Hills

For the last seven weekends in a row, violent settlers from neighboring Bat Ayin have attacked the Palestinian farmers here.

  • David Shulman

Beating Bad Karma

Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change.

  • Abbas Milani

Peace Out

The decline of Israel’s progressive movement.

  • Helena Cobban

The Case for Amnesty

Time erodes the state’s right to deport.

  • Joseph H. Carens
with responses from
  • Mae M. Ngai
  • Roberto Suro
  • Marc R. Rosenblum
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • Eamonn Callan
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Linda Bosniak
  • Mary Lyndon Shanley
  • Rainer Bauböck
  • Gerald L. Neuman
  • Douglas S. Massey
  • Gara LaMarche
  • Carol M. Swain
  • Arash Abizadeh
  • Peter H. Schuck
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Land of My Dreams

Islamic liberalism under fire in India.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

State of the Nation: Anti-Semitism and the Economic Crisis

When it comes to the financial crisis, Democrats are especially prone to blaming Jews

  • Neil Malhotra
  • Yotam Margalit

God’s Work

What can faith-based activism do for labor?

  • Nancy MacLean

The Triangle

Policy wonks, patronage, and the possibilities of the grassroots

  • Michael Gecan
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