The Inside Dope on Snitching
A law professor explains how to keep criminal informants from duping prosecutors, police and the rest of us.
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Botox for the Brain
A Harvard psychologist argues that our mindless acceptance of stereotypes leads to premature aging.
Mental Problems
New book Healing the Broken Mind by Timothy Kelly demonstrates how to begin fixing America's utterly failed mental health care system.
The End of Impunity?
An upcoming PBS documentary shows how the International Criminal Court is changing the world's approach to crimes against humanity.
Iran: From Axis to Ally?
A new book says that Iran's leadership is opportunistic, not evil, and therefore open to imaginative American policy initiatives.
Leon Botstein: In It for the Duration
A Miller-McCune interview of intellectual provocateur Leon Botstein.
A Government at Risk?
Wonks examine the state of American self-governance; little hopeful audacity is found.
Meet the Real Islam
History professor and blogger Juan Cole succeeds at debunking American myths about the Muslim world. It's the policy prescription that's trite.
The Bonfire of the Housing Vanity
If you're looking for someone to blame for the subprime mortgage fiasco, don't stop at George Bush. Go all the way back to Herbert Hoover.
If YOU Can Draw, Then YOU Should Be in School!
The case for making American universities into patrons of the arts.