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Human rights

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Outing Iran

Publishing news of discrimination against homosexuals in Iran.

David William Turner

Arts in Society, Global Justice

Poetry Fights Back

Modern Pashtun poetry is a poetry of resistance.

Shaheen Buneri

Arts in Society, Global Justice

Touching Their Ancestors’ Hands

An Interview with Anne Makepeace.

Anne Makepeace, Jana Pickart

Global Justice, Politics

The Plague

Farmers and Settlers Clash in South Hebron

David Shulman

Forum

Citizen Consumer

A small percentage of consumers have already moved a portion of the market toward more sustainable practices. But the larger promise of ethical consumption remains unmet.

Dara O’Rourke

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

On using privilege to challenge the state.

Noam Chomsky

Global Justice, Law & Justice

A Little Help

Rahman, a native of Pakistan, was wrongfully accused of aiding would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad. 

David William Turner

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

It Takes Two

In contrast to Loving v. Virginia, on the same-sex marriage issue the Court may have to make a decision before a national consensus emerges.

Pamela S. Karlan

Global Justice, Politics

Known Unknowns

Deliberations in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani.

Basil Katz

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

No Objections

Marriage has not been one unchanging institution over time. Features that once seemed essential and indispensable proved otherwise.

Nancy F. Cott

Global Justice, Law & Justice

The Worst of the Worst

Supermax Torture in America

Lance Tapley

Global Justice, Politics

Our Man in Guatemala

An eminent medical historian discusses two major, blatantly unethical studies the U.S. government conducted on syphilis patients in Guatemala and Alabama.

Susan Reverby

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