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The vast hinterlands of the Global South’s cities are generating new solidarities and ideas of what counts as a life worth living.
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
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Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.
The problem isn’t new; it’s the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
As Big Tech’s data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.
The tradition allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline solidarity in civic life.
Feminist philosophers Kate Soper and Lynne Segal discuss the unsustainable obsession with economic growth and consider what it might look like if we all worked less.
Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.
Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.
Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
The black feminist Combahee River Collective manifesto and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie share the diagnosis that the wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist energies for their own ends.
A critique that anticipated the political currents of contemporary America.
As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
With the invasion causing a global shortage of sunflower oil, palm oil is back on the rise. But the commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.
Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. A new translation of Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.
A pervasive ideology of “traditional values” has taken hold in Russia, portraying LGBT rights as existential threats to the nation.
The mystical connection between white Southern nostalgia, the global family values movement, and Russia.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
We need to reckon with police lies not only as a form of individual misconduct but as a matter of political speech.
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.
Effective responses to violence—preventing it, interrupting it, holding people accountable, and helping people heal—already exist. We need to learn from and invest in them.
Poetry
But I do miss the hymns, / the small, hard apples with their dimpled skin. I do miss / things.
Poetry
As a student, I stitched / a cadaver together / while my professor / said you must / be a predator . . .
Poetry
I ain’t dead and in this form, / I can matrix my way out of your bullet.
Poetry
I was also spat across an ocean
and clung to the edge of an unwilling continent.
Poetry
I ask my brother if he can hear cicadas where he is. My brother doesn’t know what cicadas are. He is 40 years old. He asks me to repeat it.
Poetry
Selected by Sonia Sanchez as a winner of the 2021 Boston Review Annual Poetry Contest
They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.
Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.
The Federal Reserve’s bid to “get wages down” reflects the enduring hold of neoliberal thought at the highest levels of economic policymaking.
Democratic theory points to two problems: unjust concentrations of power and a flawed theory of knowledge.
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.
What does a just world look like? Our new issue begins with a planet beset by accumulating crises—environmental, social, and political—and imagines how we can move beyond them.
Drawing on the legacy of post-colonial struggles for liberation, Imagining Global Futures explores a range of radical visions for a world after neoliberalism and empire. Guest edited by Adom Getachew.
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