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How Did We Fare on COVID-19?
To restore public trust and prepare for the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with the U.S. experience—what worked, and what didn’t.
Letter to the Editor: “Mexico’s Disappeared”
If the Ayotzinapa case goes unpunished, there will never be a commitment from the state to resolve the broader issue.
Seizing Kashmir
For decades India has refused to acknowledge Kashmiri demands for self-determination. Now Modi has a new strategy—a settler project.
Celebrating 50 Years of BR
Writers and editors reflect on their favorite pieces from our archive.
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“Far from serving our republic well, America’s unusual system of checks and balances has paralyzed it—contributing to the authoritarianism we now face.”
—Lisa L. Miller, “The Dead End of Checks and Balances”
“Israeli authorities have made no secret of their aim to bring down the Islamic Republic—an aim that Israel has pursued through assassination of nuclear scientists, cyberattacks, and support for armed groups committed to overthrowing Iran’s government.”
—Alex Shams, “The ‘Terrorists’ in My Grandmother’s Neighborhood”
“It is because of his ideas that the government fears Rodney’s return to the Caribbean: they know the power of critical ideas to take root among people and to move them into action .”
—Stuart Hall, “When We Are All Enemies of the State”
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Far from safeguarding democracy, America’s system of government helped create this authoritarian moment.
Lisa L. Miller leads a forum with Kelly Hayes, Samuel Moyn, and others. Plus Judith Levine on mutual aid as resistance, Debbie Nathan on the national security exception, Alex Gourevitch on the future of campus protest, and more.
Celebrating 50 years of Boston Review
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In the decades-long onslaught against abortion, language contracted along with women’s rights. For antidote, I turned to Christine Henneberg’s beautiful essay, “Why I Provide Abortions.” Here is an expanded feminist language, vibrant with the complexity of experience and alive to the fact that difficulty and grief often sit next to autonomy and liberation.”
— Jessie Kindig, writer and editor on Christine Henneberg’s “Why I Provide Abortions” (2021)
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