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How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

Noura Erakat
Politics

Introducing our Winter 2025 issue.

Boston Review
Class & Inequality

The problem is no longer “money in politics.” It’s just money.

Mark Schmitt

Our contributors have seen this moment coming. But we need your support to continue covering it.

Deborah Chasman
Arts in Society

An interview with Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof about his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

Jonathan Kirshner
Politics

There are tensions in his motley coalition, but left-liberal fractures may be even worse.

David Austin Walsh
Law

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

Lauren Carasik
Class & Inequality

Setting the record straight.

Dean Baker
Politics

Trump’s “invasion” narrative and the real story of pain in America.

Jeanne Morefield
Politics

The long battle between liberals and Black intellectuals over the meaning of colonialism.

Sam Klug

Donald Trump is back in the White House. How did he get there? Why did Democrats fail? And how can we fight back?

Essays by David Austin Walsh, Jeanne Morefield, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noura Erakat, Marshall Steinbaum, and others. Plus Gianpaolo Baiocchi on building a workers’ movement, Aaron Bady on the fertility panic, Joelle M. Abi-Rached on the afterlife of political violence, and Samuel Hayim Brody on the reality of settler colonialism.

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Israel & Palestine
Politics

A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.

Ahmed Moor
Law

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

A. Dirk Moses
Politics

In the wake of exploding pagers, universalism plunges into the abyss.

Joelle M. Abi-Rached

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A spate of destructive executive orders

Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?

Evgeny Morozov with Brian Eno, Audrey Tang, Terry Winograd, Edward Ongweso Jr., and others
From the Archive
Class & Inequality

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

David Waldstreicher
Law

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Baher Azmy
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