Nothing To Fear

Those who see a clash of civilizations due to Muslim immigration in Europe are wrong on every detail that matters.
John R. Bowen

Counterinsurgency’s Comeback

Counterinsurgency has its roots in colonialism. Can it serve nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Nasser Hussain

Whitewashing Haiti’s History

“The inescapable truth is that ‘the world’ never forgave Haiti for its revolution, because the slaves freed themselves.”
—Web only
Sidney Mintz

The United States and the Media: Still “Civilizing” Haiti

“Every disaster and every coup inspires an old vision for the country: a site for multinational investment.”—Web only
Colin Dayan

The Big Bank Theory

How government helps financial giants get richer
Dean Baker

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul
Vivian Gornick

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Ryan Thoreson

Edit This Page

Wikipedia: what makes it work—and
can it last?
Evgeny Morozov

Crisis and Hope

While the financial crisis has dominated public attention, it’s the recession of democracy itself, in the United States and abroad, that poses the greater threat.
Noam Chomsky

Do the Right Thing

The United States’s efforts to halt mass killing have been rare. What would an effective genocide policy look like?
Sarah Sewell

Living with Coal

One of the dirtiest fuels on earth is also one of the fastest-growing. How can we address climate policy’s most inconvenient truth?
David Victor and Richard Morse

Stories and Stats

The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers
Andrew Gelman and John Sides

The Memory That Will Not Die

“Super-judge” Baltasar Garzón's attempt to posthumously prosecute the Franco regime spurs debate about historical memory.
Julius Purcell

Cyber-Scare

The exaggerated fears over digital warfare. Also read the author’s web-only update in response to recent events.
Evgeny Morozov

Peace Out

The decline of Israel’s progressive movement
Helena Cobban

United By Hate

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela. Also read the authors' web-only response to comments on the original article.
Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez

Beating Bad Karma

Abbas Milani
Iran’s crisis offers an opportunity for real change.—web exclusive

A Simple Truth

David Shulman
In a dispatch from the Hebron hills, activists challenge soldiers at an illegal settler outpost.—web exclusive

The Best Hope—Still?

Jeremy Pressman
Why the two-state solution remains the best path to peace.

No Ordinary Success

The boundaries of school reform
James Forman, Jr.

Accidental Billionaire

Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly’s Unjust Deserts and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers
Claude S. Fischer

Malpractice

When it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules
Dean Baker

God's Work

What can faith-based activism do for labor?
Nancy MacLean

State of Emergency

A personal history of Pakistan on the brink
Moni Mohsin

A Tribe Apart

Afghan elites face a corrosive past
Barnett R. Rubin

Small, Green, and Good

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future
Catherine Tumber

Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?
Evgeny Morozov

State of the Nation

The State of Boston

A mayoral election special
Stephen Ansolabehere

The Supreme Court

What do Americans think about property, punishment, and privacy?
Stephen Ansolabehere

Getting Warmer

Jon Krosnick, Ariel Malta, and David Scott Yeager

How to vote (and what for)

Stephen Ansolabehere

Blaming “The Jews”

How has the Madoff scandal affected public perception of Jews and the financial crisis?
Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit

Court of Public Opinion

Is the Constitution a “living document”?

On Film

Fool’s Gold

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno
Alan A. Stone

Sound Barrier

Joe Wright’s The Soloist
Alan A. Stone

Purple Gaze

José Luis Guerín’s In the City of Sylvia
Alan A. Stone

Condemned

Stephen Daldry’s The Reader
Alan A. Stone

The Mind’s Eye

Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York
Alan A. Stone

What Does Woody Want?

Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Alan A. Stone

A Different Drum

Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor
Alan A. Stone

Badlands

The Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men
Alan A. Stone