Politics

A Response to David Mikhail’s Sleepwalker

We must focus on the laws that continue to put so many noncitizens— including legal residents —into detention and deportation proceedings.

  • Mark Dow

Against Cyber-Utopianism

Reflections on information technology and democracy. 

  • Joshua Cohen

Sleepwalker

Forgetting Shakir Baloch

  • David Mikhail

Private Arrangements

“Recognizing sharia” in England

  • John R. Bowen

Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?

  • Evgeny Morozov

State of Emergency

A personal history of Pakistan on the brink.

  • Moni Mohsin

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Fateful Gates

The lives of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

  • Roger Boylan

Always at the After Party

Liberals and Libertarians: Kissing Cousins or Distant Relatives?

  • Joshua Cohen

History Matters, But So Does Politics

A response to William Hogeland’s “Constitutional Conventions.”

  • Sanford Levinson

Free Market Myth

Regulation is everywhere. Let’s choose who benefits.

  • Dean Baker

Tools for a New Economy

We need a new regulatory framework that is capable of stabilizing markets and channeling financial resources away from the speculative casino.

  • Robert Pollin

No New Tax Cuts

A case for big government

State of the Nation: Amazing Race

How post-racial was Obama’s victory?

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • Charles Stewart III

Common Cause

Real help for Iranian democrats.

  • Abbas Milani

God

Philosophers weigh in.

  • Alex Byrne

Remembering Randall Forsberg

The originator of the idea of a “nuclear freeze.”

  • Joshua Cohen

The Call of the Tribe

What role should “identity” play in our politics and in our lives?

  • Glenn C. Loury

Constitutional Conventions

Public history should make us think.

  • William Hogeland

The Mourner’s Hope

Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk, on grief and the foundations of justice.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum

State of the Nation: Disapproval and Trust

How Americans view their government.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Presidential Crimes

The crimes of the Bush administration must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.

  • Elaine Scarry

The Party’s Over

Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam attempt to provide a blueprint to save Republican politics from wholesale collapse.

  • Lew Daly

History Matters

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians

  • Joseph Levine

Intimate Revenge: Writing the Troubles

The Big Man of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley, has died.

  • Roger Boylan
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