Global

Global Justice

Open Letter to Gayle Smith, Nominee for USAID Administrator

At USAID there’s one simple thing you can commit to: no famine.

Alex de Waal

Arts in Society

The Ethics of Being a Fan

Sports are an excellent tool for thinking through tricky ethical and political questions.

Andrew Mayersohn

War & Security

A New U.S. Grand Strategy

How to stop the United States from overreaching, overspending, and overcommitting. 

Barry R. Posen

World

Can Vladimir Putin Upend Democracy in Europe?

In the face of Putin's rejection of democracy, Europe’s democrats must underscore the importance of the EU’s norms: social justice, sustainability, diplomacy, diversity, and freedom of movement.

Paul Hockenos

Global Justice, Podcast

Daniel Dennett and Steven Pinker: Can We Become a More Peaceful Species?

A recording of their debate at the Unlearning Violence conference.

John Berger

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

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