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Fall 2014 – Mobile Editions
Introduction: The Promises and Limits of Progressive Cities
To dwell solely on the grim events in Washington is to neglect the more complicated and, potentially, more hopeful reality taking shape in American cities today.
Introducing our Winter issue.
Japan’s Island Problem
How U.S. policy, ancestral wounds, and international law have led to an era of ocean imperialism
The Soapbox Left
The democratic left has always operated on a theory of trickle-up politics. Strikes, protests, and acts of civil disobedience all begin at the bottom—on the shop-floor, in the university, at the town square—and then make their way up. The abolitionists …
The Segregation Index
Percentage of black residents in Ferguson, Missouri: 67 Of black police officers: 5.7 Percentage of traffic stops targeting black residents in Ferguson: 86 Of arrests: 93 Distance in miles from Ferguson to St. Louis suburb of Ladue: 10 Rank of …
Piketty in Paris
Why don’t popular economic ideas become policy?
Summer 2014 – Mobile Editions
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Social Democracy in America?
Lane Kenworthy delivers a crisp manifesto for an “American” version of social democracy. But can his vision transcend Republican extremism, union decline, and our country’s racial heterogeneity?
Burma’s Fault Lines: Ethnic Federalism and the Road to Peace
As gross human rights violations against the country’s ethnic groups continue, can peace and democracy really take hold?
The Gospel According to Terry
Secularists must concede the futility of attempts to find a substitute for God.
The Naxal Novel
A series of novels captures the moral and political ambiguities of India’s Maoist insurgency.
Florence Gordon Writes a Memoir
It’s astonishing how little people know each other, even old friends. . . .
Scenes from the novel Florence Gordon.
Brute Ideology
Witchcraft and racecraft—unlike witches and race—are things that actually exist.
“They Did What They Liked”: Chevron and Dow on Trial
Over decades, U.S. multinationals have developed a formidable arsenal of legal tactics to escape accountability abroad.
Odd Women
George Gissing’s novel captured our two-steps-forward, one-step-back journey to the “new” woman and man.
