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Politics and government

Camelot Revisited

We engage in political activity so that we may, as societies of men, deal with the world as it is. This is not a slight endeavor; the world as it…

Stop Hillary!

by Doug Henwood,

Vote no to a Clinton dynasty

The Other Zionism

by I. F. Stone,

The main current of Zionism has always nourished itself on the illusions that the Jews were “a people without a land” returning to “a land without a people.” But there…

Israel and Palestine

by Bernard Avishai, Dani Dayan, Forsan Hussein, Eva Illouz, Bassim Khoury, Erel Margalit, Danny Rubinstein, Khalil Shikaki,

Where to go from here

Return of the Strongman

by Negar Azimi,

How did Egypt revert to dictatorship?

Good Pilgrims

by Sarah Menkedick,

Why Mexican immigrants are moving back home

Promises, Promises

by Mark Hertsgaard,

Can Obama redeem his environmental failures?

Angle to Montgomery

by Christopher Cox,

Justin Barkley and I met as freshmen in college. He was the soft-spoken kid with an Alabama accent who lived down the hall. His roommates were all jocks of one…

The Man Who Stole the Nile

by Frederick Kaufman,

An Ethiopian billionaire’s outrageous land grab

Northern Exposure

by Masha Gessen,

Protest, petroleum, and Putin’s dream of a Russian Arctic

The Civil Rights Act’s Unsung Victory

by Randall Kennedy,

And how it changed the South