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Aziz Rana

Aziz Rana is professor of law and government at Boston College. He is the author of The Two Faces of American Freedom and the forthcoming The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.

Articles

Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea

Astra Taylor, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Aziz Rana

Jefferson Cowie speaks with Aziz Rana about whether the language of freedom can be taken back from its "sordid history" in the U.S. context.

Aziz Rana, Jefferson Cowie

American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.

Aziz Rana with Lea Ypi, Jefferson Cowie, Adom Getachew, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Philippe Van Parijs, and others

In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.

Asl? U. Bâli, Aziz Rana
With Assad preparing a major offensive on the last rebel stronghold, the United States must offer a path forward. 
Asl? U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

As the Trump–Putin summit made clear, U.S. policy in Syria has always been about grand strategy—never about what would actually help the people on the ground.

Asl? U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

Support for the U.S. military has long been seen as a crucial way for black Americans and immigrants to show that they “belong.”

Aziz Rana

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

Asl? U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

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

Elections are now used to legitimate authoritarian regimes, not herald liberal democracy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Kenya.

Aziz Rana

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

John Bowen, Aziz Rana

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American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.

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In practice, domestic equality has often relied on dominance and exclusion.
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