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May 29, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Louisiana Republicans Just Made Covering Police Brutality a Crime
Police in the state can now arrest people who don’t stand more than 25 feet away from them while they are on duty.
May 3, 2024
Alex Shephard
Biden’s Very Trumpian Response to the Peaceful Student Protests
He’s explicitly demonizing nonviolent demonstrators and implicitly supporting the disproportionate and violent police response.
March 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
How a Nation of 145 Million People Goes Dark Practically Overnight
The Russian autocrat has bolstered his disinformation war in ways that will cause lasting damage to Russian civil society.
January 22, 2021
Alex Shephard
Can the White House Press Briefing Be Saved?
Yes, new press secretary Jen Psaki is getting raves. That doesn’t mean televised briefings are worthwhile.
December 21, 2012
Charles Fried
Torture, America, and the Laws of War
November 2, 2012
Alec MacGillis
On Voting Worries, Sweat The Small Stuff
June 7, 2012
Peter Green
Homer Now
May 5, 2011
Ahmed Rashid
Cry, the Beloved Country
October 20, 2010
Thomas Nagel
The Facts Fetish
September 1, 2010
Peter Green
The Stranger From Within
September 1, 2010
Peter Green
The Stranger From Within
December 11, 2006
Cass R. Sunstein
The Case for Fear
January 17, 2005
Christine Stansell
What Stuff!
March 29, 1999
Cass R. Sunstein
Vanity Fair
May 11, 1998
James Q. Wilson
The Closing of the American City