Stephen H. Schneider (1945–2010) was Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Stanford University and Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC's working group on ...

We’ll be celebrating with special issues and events, keeping faith with the democratic commitments that serve as our north ...

When news of the end of the Vietnam War arrived fifty years ago, immortalized in images of U.S. helicopters lifting off from the roofs of Saigon, many who had worked for years to end the carnage ...

This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West.” Invoking the Manhattan Project, Karp and Zamiska want Silicon Valley to ...

The identity of a nation lies in its borders. Santiago Zabala, Søren Tinning A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975. Registered 501(c)(3) organization.

Around sunset on March 25, Fatema Ahmad, executive director of the grassroots Muslim Justice League in Boston, was winding down after a call with a group of attorneys. They had been strategizing their ...

In 2013 Charles Murray traveled to the Galápagos Islands to deliver an address to the Mont Pelerin Society—that font of neoliberalism, founded in 1947 by Friedrich Hayek. But Murray’s talk didn’t run ...

Shai Agmon is the Rank-Manning Junior Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the New College, University of Oxford and the Academic Director of Molad: The Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy.

How Can the Democrats Win? Rick Perlstein, with Ruy Teixeira, Elaine Kamarck, Robert B. Reich, and others. Rajan Menon on the standoff in Chechnya; Martha C. Nussbaum on why women were mutilated in ...

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