Politics

The Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal

The former members of the Black Panthers is on death row. 

  • Loren Goldner

Review: The Color of Truth

By Kai Bird.

  • Jeff Jones

The Ownership Solution

A better way to share the wealth.

  • Jeff Gates
with responses from
  • Sewin Chan & Henry Schneider & Joseph Tracy
  • Gar Alperovitz
  • Herbert Gintis
  • William H. Simon

Is Equality Passé?

The welfare state is in trouble not because selfishness is rampant (it is not), but because many egalitarian programs no longer evoke deeply held notions of fairness.

  • Samuel Bowles
  • Herbert Gintis

Forces of Civility

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

  • John Tirman

Development—but at What Cost?

An exchange on Jay Mandle's "The Problem with Thinking Locally" (BR, Summer 1998).

  • Shiv Visvanathan
  • Jay Mandle

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The Immigrant as Pariah

Laws imposing social disabilities on immigrants are at odds with constitutional guarantees of equality.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard B. Freeman
  • T. Alexander Aleinikoff
  • Rogers M. Smith
  • Jennifer Gordon
  • Ulrich Preuss
  • Iris M. Young
  • Robin West
  • Mark Tushnet
  • Myron Weiner
  • Jagdish Bhagwati
  • Muzaffar Chishti

The Problem with Thinking Locally

Markets need to be reshaped to protect the environment, and such reshaping will require political struggle.

  • Jay Mandle

The Case for Proportional Representation

The failures of our winner-takes-all system.

  • Robert Richie
  • Steven Hill
with responses from
  • Cynthia McKinney
  • John Ferejohn
  • E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  • Gary W. Cox
  • Daniel Cantor
  • Ross Mirkarimi
  • Anthony Thigpenn
  • Pamela S. Karlan

The Case for Proportional Representation

The failures of our winner-takes-all system.

  • Robert Richie
  • Steven Hill

The Magnolia Street Commune

A story of feminism, sexual conflict, radical politics, and the hope for community.

  • Vivian Rothstein

Ataturk’s Children

Casting light on Washington’s genocidal ally in the Middle East.

  • John Tirman

The Softer Side of Sociobiology

The origins of human virtue remain far from certain.

  • H. Allen Orr

Going Public

New Directions for Campaign Finance Reform

  • David Donnelly
  • Janice Fine
  • Ellen S. Miller

A Descamisada Diva

Four decades after her death, Eva Perón remains a powerful symbol of Argentina’s profound cultural and political divisions.

  • Michael Greenberg

Democracy or Neoliberalism?

  • Atilio Boron

Creatures of the Right

The vampire state and other misleading metaphors distort economic debate.

  • Fred Block

Democracy and Positive Liberty

Can liberal constitutional theory make space for the positive aspect of political freedom?

  • Frank Michelman

Abortion’s Past

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

  • Maureen Paul

Spreading the Nationalist Virus

Yugoslavia was killed by toxic nationalism.

  • Michael Montgomery

A Better Democracy, A Better Economy

The quality of state intervention in the economy depends on the quality of democratic institutions.

  • Adam Przeworski

Reviving Unions

With all that unions are up against, only a radically different approach can help us start winning again.

  • Stephen Lerner
with responses from
  • Lynn Williams
  • Staughton Lynd
  • Bill Fletcher, Jr.
  • Janice Fine
  • Joel Rogers

Time for a Wealth Tax?

The current tax system in the United States leaves vast differences in wealth and power largely untouched.

  • Edward Wolff

Strategies for Rebuilding the Left

To overcome fragmentation and launch grassroots social movements, progressive activists and intellectuals need new ways of organizing.

  • Richard Flacks
with responses from
  • Frances Fox Piven
  • John Walsh
  • Janice Fine
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