Imagine that there is a reactionary and theocratic regime somewhere in the world -- one that routinely violates human rights, censors newspapers, harasses labor unionists, and punishes women for “sex ...

We have entered the chaos era of social media in America. Sociologists would call it a “legitimation crisis”: It’s what happens when people lose faith in social institutions during periods of rapid ...

But, unlike the legitimation crisis that the Trump presidency is triggering, that crisis is largely a fabrication of Israeli propagandists. Their goal is to quash the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions ...

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, protests have spread across the United States (and the world). These protests force us to confront the question ...

In the wake of a seemingly endless wave of corporate accounting scandals, many people are beginning to realize accounting practices have important social consequences. Recent layoffs and vanishing ...

Who needs government? A Tea Party protest on tax day in 2010 in New York. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo Elections normally decide who is to govern. This upcoming election is about the very legitimacy of the ...

The Iran depicted in the headlines is a rogue state ruled by ever-more-defiant Islamic fundamentalists. Yet inside the borders, an unheralded transformation of a wholly different political bent is ...

[TEHRAN BUREAU] A leading academic authority on Shia Islam has put forward proposals around which he believes advocates of non-violent change in Iran can agree. Chibli Mallat, the Lebanese lawyer and ...