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

Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.

In the aftermath of October 7.

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Critics say human rights discourse blunts social transformation. It doesn't have to.

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.

Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.

In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.

When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.