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War is gathering around the world, and autocratic leaders are undermining the legal checks on their discretion to launch attacks abroad. With the rule of law under threat, the…
Scott L. Montgomery with a long read that provides analysis to the latest unfolding Iran crisis.
Things have heated up once again between Iran and the West, the U.S. in…
The Constitution was framed to thwart the democratic aspirations of most of the public, says Chomsky. Between Trump's White House and the Republican-controlled Senate and…
We live in dangerous times — no doubt about it. How did we get to such a state of affairs where democracy itself is in a very fragile condition and the future of human…
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn. 2018. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674737563
There is a Chinese saying about two people sharing the same bed…
It is no easy task to make sense of U.S. foreign policy in the current era. Trump is wildly unpredictable and lacks any semblance of a coherent view of world affairs, appearing to…
Branko Milanovic uses Olsen's roving and stationary bandits framework to explain Russia's contemporary oligarchs.
Vladimir Putin’s recent interview to the Financial…
"Free markets" do not guarantee workers any freedoms other than the freedom to be unemployed and to starve.
Long before the growing interest in economic inequality facing…
Branko Milanovic asks if our life is a CV, what kind of social scientist will we make?
Recently I read, rather by accident than design, short lives of…
Is socialism making a comeback? If so, what exactly is socialism, why did it lose steam toward the latter part of the 20th century, and how do we distinguish democratic socialism…