Politics & Economics

In a world in which ‘everyday sexism’ remains rife, gender discrimination presents special challenges. This article describes a report which argues that in many fields – notably political representation – progress will require the implementation of quotas: a controversial recommendation which presents both political and legal dilemmas.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. -- Edmund Burke (in a speech in May 1789 favoring an impeachment)   He who knows only his own side of the...

The dominance of Donald Trump in the GOP primaries presents a dilemma for Republicans:  should the GOP be more afraid of a national convention like the one that nominated Barry Goldwater in 1964, or like...

Alan Solomont, Tufts University This past February, when many of their peers were still asleep, a group of Tufts University students got on a bus to New Hampshire to take advantage of a...

Laya Ongoiba speaks truth to power. An advocate against female genital mutilation and child marriage in the town of Douentza, in central Mali, where 89 percent of women and girls have undergone FGM, Laya...

With undergraduates I recently explored the complexity of thought among several Civil Rights writers and activists. During our conversation, students rethought the meaning of terms like radical,...

In the fall of 2006, I walked down Tahrir Square alone, after naively showing up to a protest that never took place. All I could muster was a look of silent disdain at the tens of security officers who showed...