Glenn Loury and Corey Brettschneider debate the difficulties facing defenders of DOMA and Prop 8.
Laura Seay and Stephen Saideman consider the differences in teaching at different types of schools. Plus: Listen up, grad students!
Bruce Western explains. Plus: The real causes of homicide.
Sarah Posner asks Kathryn Joyce whether the evangelical enthusiasm for international adoption is responding to a real problem. Plus: Why evangelicals are adopting so many babies.
Matt Lewis says the Gosnell story screams “newsworthy,” and senses a subtle media bias at work. Plus: Boston, Twitter, and wrong information.
Reem Maghribi reports from Libya. Plus: Why it’s far too soon to say the Arab Spring has failed.
Monica Potts describes staying in a Ramada for five weeks to report on working class families living there long-term. Plus: It’s expensive to be poor.
The trial of an illegal abortionist in Philadelphia has sparked claims that the media has ignored the story for ideological reasons. In 2011, Amanda Marcotte and Mollie Z. Hemingway debated the case’s larger meaning.
Is Israel paying a price for building illegal settlements? Matt Duss talks to Brent Sasley. Plus: The debased debate on foreign policy.
Betsy Woodruff and Jordan Bloom are concerned that the conservative movement lacks a figure of William F. Buckley’s stature. Plus: What Rand Paul should have said at Howard