Politics

State of the Nation: Electricity and Elections

How Americans feel about energy companies.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

State of the Nation: The Media and Other Matters

What percentage of Americans know someone who is gay? 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Breakout

Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.

  • Helena Cobban

The Unending War

On Argentina’s quest for justice.

  • Sam Ferguson

American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.

  • William Hogeland

The Bitter End

Jonah Goldberg’s liberal fascism.

  • Kevin Mattson

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State of the Nation: Voters and Parties

The impact of the Iraq war on republican voting preferences. 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

State of the Nation: Tax and Spend

What do you most want congress to do to balance the budget? 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere

Unfinished Story

On Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff.

  • Kathryn Crim

All That Is Given

Hannah Arendt on being Jewish.

  • Vivian Gornick

Al Qaeda in Lebanon

The Iraq War spreads.

  • Nir Rosen

Pious Populist

Understanding the rise of Iran’s president.

  • Abbas Milani

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

On the troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

  • William Hogeland

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

  • Colin Dayan

Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas

  • Paul Hockenos

Massive crimes are never simply domestic

They cross borders and affect other states.

  • Luis Moreno-Ocampo

No Going Back

Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis.

  • Nir Rosen

Back to the Future

On Israel’s existential crisis.

  • Robert Blecher
  • Jeremy Pressman

The Curse of Modernity

Philip Rieff’s problem with freedom.

  • George Scialabba

The View from Tehran

Changing Iran from within.

  • Akbar Ganji

A Third Way

Normalizing relations will help Iran and the United States.

  • Michael McFaul
  • Abbas Milani

The Reckoning

On the proper place for religion in politics.

  • Catherine Tumber

In Search of the Common Good

The Catholic roots of American Liberalism

  • Lew Daly

Revolution

The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh.

  • Nicholas Schmidle
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