Cover art by Edel Rodriguez

Editors’ Note

A General Air of Anxiety

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

Joan Wallach Scott

How Can We Live Together?

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

MAGA’s Complaints

The base is more fractured than it looks.

David Austin Walsh

Forum: The Real Border Crisis

What’s really fueling the war on immigrants.

Lea Ypi

With responses from Paulina Ochoa Espejo, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dara Lind, Daniel Denvir, Chandran Kukathas, and Ayelet Shachar. Ypi replies.

Stupefaction by Law

The Trump administration’s murders in the Caribbean.

Joseph Margulies

Profiting in Nowhereland

The sordid history of Fort Bliss, home to a sprawling new immigration detention center.

Honora Spicer

How to Lie with (Political) Statistics

Inside the data wars over Democratic strategy.

Lily Hu

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence

The truth is, it’s all around us—perpetrated by the system itself.

Eric Reinhart

The Land Question

It’s easier to imagine the end of apartheid than the end of settler colonialism.

Panashe Chigumadzi

Celebrating 50 Years of Boston Review: Archive Selections

Wajahat Ali on Nir Rosen, Samuel Moyn on Brandon M. Terry, Elaine Scarry on Oded Na’aman, David Adler on Suresh Naidu, Gabriel Zucman, & Dani Rodrik, Becca Rothfeld on Susan Moller Okin, and Greg Grandin on David Waldstreicher

The Care Factory

Once the invisible backbone of capitalist labor, care work now makes up a large part of GDP.

Emily Baughan

A Good Neighbor: The Films of Marcel Ophuls

The late director explored the twentieth century’s great crimes and the trail of guilt they left behind.

Aaron Labaree

Tainted Ladies

Liberal feminism is collapsing. Who’s really to blame?

Lorna Finlayson