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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

N 40° 44.185 W 073° 59.427: the northwest corner of Union Square in New York City. According to

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

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

Flickr (cc)    It appears that Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the

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, The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age, 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

“Buy local,” “buy green,” “buy organic” . . . we cannot buy anything without considering its moral implications. How has consumption become suffused with right and wrong? How effective has the ethical-consumption movement been in changing market behavior?

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