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Science & Nature

Big Tobacco Abroad

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the downside to free trade.

Sean McElwee

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

The Gun Library

The failure of institutions in São Paulo has paved the way for an ethic of organized crime. 

Graham Denyer Willis

Science & Nature

Stop and Look

Geocaching invites you to consider spaces normally relegate to the blur of background scenery.

Matthew Fishbane

Science & Nature

Video: A Case for Climate Engineering

Harvard climate scientist David Keith leads a discussion about his new Boston Review book, A Case for Climate Engineering.

David Keith

Forum

The Truth About GMOs

Genetically modified foods are safe for humans and pose no special environmental risk. Yet there are serious policy questions to consider.

Pamela Ronald

War & Security

Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now

When state order collapses, every confessional or ethnic group asks one question: Who will protect us now?

Michael Ignatieff

New Media and Old-Time Revolution

People, let’s get a grip – and I don’t mean on your smartphone; I mean on history.

Claude S. Fischer

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

The Promise and Limits of Private Power

Richard M. Locke visits Brown's Watson Institute to discuss the ideas from his recent forum essay Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?

Richard M. Locke

Forum

Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?

Private efforts to improve global working conditions have failed.

Richard M. Locke

Class & Inequality

Little, Big

Big-time development economists are missing something.

Pranab Bardhan

Global Justice, Literature & Culture

The New Religious Intolerance

In her new book, Martha Nussbaum extends her distinguished body of work on liberalism, education, literature, and the emotions by turning to the growing anti-Muslim agitations in Europe and the United States.

David V. Johnson

Class & Inequality, Podcast

The Promise of Ethical Consumption

An Ideas Matter event held at MIT on November 3, 2011

Dara O’Rourke, Scott Nova, Richard Locke, Jens Hainmueller