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Besides overturning the very structure of higher education virtually overnight, COVID-19 will also accelerate a number of troubling longer-term trends.
Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
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Christopher J. Lee
R. H. Lossin, Andy Battle
Adam Kotsko
Jeffrey C. Isaac
How can a democratic conception of the people’s authority be reconciled with an Islamic understanding of God’s authority?
Khaled Abou El Fadl
As politically tempting as the trade-off of immigrants’ liberties for our security may appear, we should resist it for reasons of principle, pragmatism, and self-interest.
David Cole
Can democracy protect us against terrorism?
Elaine Scarry
The silent theft of our shared assets and civic inheritance need not continue.
David Bollier
If we do not take the needs of working families as a keystone, the gaps between poor and rich children will only grow wider.
Jody Heymann
On reading and misreading the Qur'an.
Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.
Lama Abu-Odeh
America's voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.
Stephen Ansolabehere
Emerging technologies increase people's ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, creating serious dangers.
Cass Sunstein
Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.
Eva T. Thorne, Eugene F. Rivers III
Even as globalization makes us complicit in terrible abuses of workers, it opens up new possibilities for public action.
Archon Fung, Dara O’Rourke, Charles Sabel
We need to situate the conversation about race, gender, and affirmative action in a wider account of democratic opportunity.
Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier
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