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California Triptych

Whatever a sustainable world looks like, Los Angeles won’t be in it.

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Politics Science

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.

Politics

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.

Politics

Seizing Kashmir

For decades India has refused to acknowledge Kashmiri demands for self-determination. Now Modi has a new strategy—a settler project.

From the Editors

Celebrating 50 Years of BR

Writers and editors reflect on their favorite pieces from our archive.

Politics Race

When We Are All Enemies of the State

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

Politics

Can Anyone Hear Me?

Palestinians are only allowed to exist if we don’t cause discomfort for those who seek to erase us.

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Politics Science

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.

Law Politics

The Dead End of Checks and Balances

Far from the cure to Trumpian authoritarianism, the U.S. constitutional system is driving our democratic decline.

Politics Science

The AI We Deserve

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

Celebrating 50 years of Boston Review

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)

Dispatches from occupied america

Class & Inequality Politics

Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism

As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.

Law Politics

The Right to Be Hostile

Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.

Politics Race

The Future Before Us

Fundamental change has eluded movements that flourished in Ferguson. But their promise is still unfolding.

From the Archive

Law Politics

The Contradiction of Nuclear Democracy

To be a nuclear-armed state is to invest the executive with dictatorial powers over immeasurable destructive capacity.

Reading Lists

Reading List

Five Years of COVID-19

Looking back on the defining crisis of our time

Reading List

Trump’s War on Government

The destruction of the administrative state

Reading List

The Unfinished Revolution of Black History

Farah Jasmine Griffin, Cornel West, and more

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