Matt Duss and Gissou Nia consider whether Iran’s domestic and international behavior can be separated.
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss whether the GOP is privileging female and minority candidates. Plus: Is investigating Benghazi good politics?
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter consider what it will mean if the first black president is viewed by history as a mediocrity. Plus: “Useless outrage” on Sterling and Bundy.
Jonathan Kay reports from Toronto on the surprisingly long tenure of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Plus: How Rob Ford rebranded Canada.
Jonathan Phillips talks to Nina Strohminger about her research on the psychology of identity. Plus: As we age, does our true self change?
Mike Konczal talks to Arthur Goldhammer, translator of Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Plus: Translating Piketty’s Capital.
Robert Wright and Greg Djerejian discuss how lazy analysis impedes a resolution of the Ukraine crisis. Plus: Obama’s failure in Ukraine.
William Beutler and Simon Owens discuss the Supreme Court’s Aereo case. Plus: What the heck is Aereo?
Conor Friedersdorf and Mark Joseph Stern dispute the argument that gay marriage will inevitably lead to polygamy. Plus: The real Donald Sterling scandal.
David Klion talks to Tim Shenk, whose article on Piketty and Millennial Marxists was cited by the conservative New York Times columnist. Plus: Millennial Marxists.