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Law & Justice, Politics

What Is Infrastructure, Anyway?

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

David Alff

Global Justice

What Does Europe Have Against Halal?

Food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.

John R. Bowen

Global Justice

Poland’s Current Memory Politics Are Rewriting History

Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews.

Mikhal Dekel

Arts in Society, Politics

Petra Kelly and the Radical Green Past

The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. For many, this is proof that abandoning radicalism was the right choice, but a new novel offers valuable insights into why it should be recovered.

Stephen Milder

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

Is There a Right to Heresy?

A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Nadia Marzouki

Global Justice

Algerian Jews Have Not Forgotten France’s Colonial Crimes

A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Politics

Coronapolitics from the Reichstag to the Capitol

Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.

William Callison, Quinn Slobodian

Arts in Society

Untangling Fiction and Reality in the Balkans

The award-winning documentary ‘Honeyland’ sets out to offer a timeless environmental parable, but in the process it also explores misconceptions about the region’s culture and history. 

Daniel Petrick

Politics

Sweden’s Relaxed Approach to COVID-19 Isn’t Working

With few restrictions and no tracing of the disease’s spread, the government is relying upon Swedish character and traditions to see it through the pandemic.

Adele Lebano

Class & Inequality

Lucky to Live in Berlin

Germany's low death rate and quick payout of relief to workers makes a case for social democracy as preparedness.

Paul Hockenos

Arts in Society

László Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

Holly Case

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Zero Hour: The First Days of New Berlin

30 years after the Wall, the story of Berlin's anarchist utopia.

Paul Hockenos

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