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Law & Justice, Politics

Democracy Hangs in the Balance

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen

Politics, Science & Nature

From the Editor: Thinking in a Pandemic

COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason.

Matt Lord

Politics

In Defense of Politics

The only antidote to despair over national politics will be to generate and expand new solutions at local, state, and regional levels.

Michael Gecan

Class & Inequality, Politics

COVID-19 Provides All the More Reason to Tax the Rich

Tax policies like New Jersey’s new Millionaires Tax are morally and economically essential.

Mark Engler, Andrew Elrod

Politics, Race

The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism

Radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

Alberto Toscano

Race

The Politics of White Anxiety

Trump is the latest in a long line of politicians who have leveraged the fear of white voters. A new path forward must address the structures and finances that propagate, sustain, and shamelessly benefit from it.

Jonathan M. Metzl

Politics

The Real Reason the GOP Suppresses the Vote

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

Yochai Benkler

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Donald Trump, Our Prophet of Deceit

The Frankfurt School on the appeal of authoritarianism—and how to counteract it.

Charles H. Clavey

Race

Toward a Global History of White Supremacy

The simultaneous success of Trump and Brexit was no coincidence: white supremacist politics are international in scope and often share entwined histories.

Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, Jennifer Sutton

Class & Inequality, Politics

The World Henry Ford Made

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

Justin H. Vassallo

Politics

Rethinking Political Economy

Rejecting market fundamentalism, Rethinking Political Economy will provide space for advancing alternatives—in theory, politics, and policy—to the neoliberalism of the last forty years.

Boston Review

Reading Lists

Voting Is Underway, But Our System Is Broken

BR writers on how we can fix it. 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

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