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Welcome to the New ForeignAffairs.com! By Gideon Rose
The new ForeignAffairs.com brings you everything that runs in our flagship print magazine, plus four times as many original web-only pieces of equal quality, including news analysis, policy wonkery, foreign reportage, human interest stories, book reviews, and intellectual commentary. Everything you need to stay on top of things, even as they’re changing faster than ever before.
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Racial Inequality After Racism How Institutions Hold Back African Americans By Fredrick C. Harris Robert C. Lieberman
What accounts for the continuity of racial inequality in a postracist America? The fact that an earlier era’s racism was built into the structure of various economic, social, and political institutions, so that even their race-neutral operations today produce imbalanced outcomes.
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What to Read on Marriage Equality An Annotated Foreign Affairs Syllabus By Omar G. Encarnación
Since the Windsor decision, the United States has seen a virtual tsunami of rulings from lower federal and state courts arguing that gay marriage bans are in violation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause and are therefore unconstitutional.
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Fortress Europe Behind the Continent's Migrant Crisis By Fabrizio Tassinari Hans Lucht
Will Europe work to ensure the safe arrival of refugees from Syria, Eritrea, and other conflict-stricken countries, or will it continue to look the other way as the body count builds in the Mediterranean?
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Drone On The Sky’s the Limit—If the FAA Will Get Out of the Way By Gretchen West
The commercial use of unmanned drones, in everything from farming to bridge inspection, has nearly unlimited potential. But right now, the industry’s takeoff is being blocked by a giant obstacle in the way: the Federal Aviation Administration.
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