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Higher Education in the Age of Coronavirus

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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Faculty voices must be heard as decisions are made about reopening.

Christopher J. Lee

Technological changes threaten the interests of students and teachers alike.

R. H. Lossin, Andy Battle

How can we “make the case” to a society that doesn’t have ears to hear it?

Adam Kotsko

University administrators must be held accountable for their decisions to reopen campuses.

Jeffrey C. Isaac

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Civil Liberties after 9/11

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

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Citizenship in Emergency

Can democracy protect us against terrorism?

Elaine Scarry

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Reclaiming the Commons

The silent theft of our shared assets and civic inheritance need not continue.

David Bollier

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Can Working Families Ever Win?

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

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The Case for Binationalism

Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.

Lama Abu-Odeh

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The Place of Tolerance in Islam

On reading and misreading the Qur'an.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

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The Search for New Voting Technology

America's voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.

Stephen Ansolabehere

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Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?

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

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Faith in Politics?

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

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Stepping Up Labor Standards

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

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The Future of Affirmative Action

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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A Basic Income for All

In this classic BR forum, the chief modern proponent of UBI argues that a guaranteed basic income would secure real justice for all.

Philippe Van Parijs

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