Politics

Explaining Los Angeles

  • Marc B. Haefele

Letters to the Editor: The Last Days of Bosnia?

  • Ivo Banac
  • Rabia Ali
  • Lawrence Lifschultz

An Intervention

Out of the shadow of a wall 15 feet away a pair of men emerged and blocked the sidewalk. 

  • George Packer

The Last Days of Bosnia?

Historian Ivo Banac, once described as the “political conscience of modern Croatia,” on the roots of conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

  • Ivo Banac
  • Lawrence Lifschultz
  • Rabia Ali

Reinventing the Welfare State

Welfare reform is not just for policy wonks. It’s about the world of work and family we will pass on to the next generation.

  • Nancy Fraser
with responses from
  • Frances Fox Piven
  • Lawrence Mead

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals, Part 2

A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • bell hooks
  • Randall L. Kennedy
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Regina Austin
  • Selwyn Cudjoe
  • Joshua Cohen

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Is There a Right to Be Homeless?

Current advocacy is taking a seriously wrong turn.

  • Vivian Rothstein

Never Trust Imperialists

What’s really at stake in debates about humanitarian intervention is not human rights, but modern imperialism.

  • Christopher Hitchens

The Possibility of Humanitarian Intervention

Are states moral agents?

  • Noam Chomsky

Finding Their Voice

Kris Rondeau discusses organizing with Richard Balzer.

  • Kris Rondeau
  • Richard Balzer

Eugene Rivers’s Challenge: A Response

  • Eugene Genovese

After the Cold War: The North/South Divide

A roundtable with Randall Forsberg.

  • Randall Forsberg
with responses from
  • Joshua Cohen
  • Eqbal Ahmad
  • Jagat Mehta
  • Alan K. Henrickson

Democratic Revolution in an Age of Autocracy

Reinventing democracy requires that we create new tools of empowerment.

  • Ralph Nader

Notes from Vietnam

  • Vivian Rothstein

Is Free Speech the Enemy of Democracy?

We need a system of free expression that is both old and new.

  • Cass Sunstein

Second Proms and Second Primaries

The Limits of Majority Rule

  • Lani Guinier

The Intelligent Forty-year-old’s Guide to Rap

Rap poetry is full of cutting-edge linguistic innovations.

  • Mark Zanger

American Intervention in the Third World

Less would be better.

  • Stephen Van Evera

Lost Lives

Portraits from the Velvet Revolution.

  • Helen Epstein

A Matter of State

On the most important treason trial in South Africa in three decades.

  • Rose Moss

The Candidate Factory

Producing a better product for a bored America.

  • Todd Gitlin

Homelands

Behind South Africa’s battle lines.

  • Adam Hochschild

Reading, Writing, and Redbaiting

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.

  • Alan Wald

Humanizing Capitalism

It’s trickier than we thought.

  • Robert H. Frank
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