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Global Justice

The Law Ought to Be King

Thailand has been gripped by the largest wave of protest in years, forcing a reckoning between the country’s dual structures of democracy and monarchy.

Peera Songkünnatham

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Global Justice

Global Justice, Politics

On Pinochet

The dictator's extradition and the limits of international law.

Paul W. Kahn

Global Justice, Politics

Forces of Civility

The NGO revolution and the search for peace.

John Tirman

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

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

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Sex Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?

A response to Susan Okin, "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?"

Cass Sunstein

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Toward the End of War

Modern weapons are so destructive that war is less and less likely to take place.

Randall Forsberg

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

A Walk Into Darkness

The repression of Iranian women.

Betty Sosnin

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Exorcizing Pornography

It would be simpler to burn a few magazines than to explore the economic, social, and psychological factors of which both rape and pornography are symptoms.

Walter Kendrick

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

An Interview With Grace Paley

Writer, teacher, and political activist.

Grace Paley, Gail Pool, Shirley Roses

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