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Is There Such a Thing as Truth?

Noam Chomsky and Hilary Putnam on how language connects us to the world.

Errol Morris

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Austerity by Design

Yanis Varoufakis's lessons for reasserting European social democracy.

J. W. Mason

Global Justice, Politics

The Man from Kasimpasa

Erdogan is all too easily labelled a populist. But the reasons for his popularity are more complicated.

Engin Önder

Politics

Our Top Ten Essays on Politics in 2017

From Trump to global populism, political upheaval has dominated our lives this year. Here are our top ten political stories from 2017.

Boston Review

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Forgotten Men

On the long road from FDR to Trump.

Lawrence B. Glickman

Forum

Notes for Antifa from a Former “Terrorist”

A debate with Mark Bray about Antifa and the use of violence as a political tool.

Amitai Etzioni

Politics

The GOP Plan to Turn Students into Trump Voters

By attacking higher education, the new tax bill belies the GOP's ambitious political motivations. The investment we make in young adults today, after all, determines the electorate we have in the future.

Michael Whinston

Politics, Race

One Year Later

We have to do much more than fight back, we have to fight for the world that could liberate and sustain us all when Trump is gone.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Politics, Race

The Mythical Whiteness of Trump Country

J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy has been held up as a guidebook for understanding the 2016 election, but his logic is rooted in an enduring and dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

Elizabeth Catte

Politics

Two Cheers for Polarization

We may not like it, but when it comes to U.S. politics, polarization may very well be part of the solution.

Sam Rosenfeld

Politics

America's Imperial Unraveling

Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?

Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

Politics

An Empire unto Himself

When it comes to sexual assault, Harvey Weinstein is old-school. But Trump has changed the rules of the game.

Bonnie Honig

Politics

Against Second-Rate Democracy in Kenya

Citizens of African countries are expected to accede to a lower political standard than real democracy. Not only does this perpetuate the old colonial imagination, it is also fundamentally wrong.

Aziz Rana

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