A local argument in the UK over hanging has taken to the new parliamentary petitions. Will the populists stand and be counted?
I have resolved to spread a message of tolerance to these aliens. Especially since they're already here. And writing tickets.
The messianic nature of US presidential elections makes it unlikely that a winning candidate will promise anything but utopia. But reality can’t be bent at will.
The Space Shuttle is no more: but the dream of manned spaceflight goes on.
The elections are drawing nearer and Putin’s United Russia party has stepped up its claims to represent the real Russia and the majority of Russians. But things are never that simple. Poel Karp looks at the wider historical picture, considering the meaning of democracy and how necessary it is for
International courts and tribunals need to become real instruments of justice – and not simply tools for the strong – if the promise of Immanuel Kant's universal community is to become a reality
Genetic causation in sporting ability challenges our notions of the level playing field. But we can use the knowledge we are developing to undermine the importance of race and emphasise the person
Etgar Keret is an Israeli author of urgent, cryptic, popular fiction. His fantasies can be read as coping strategies for a violent world of irresolvable moral ambiguities
The increasing penalization of poverty is a response to social insecurity; a result of public policy that weds the "invisible hand" of the market to the "iron fist" of the penal state, says Loïc Wacquant
